Tag: LCA

From Crevice to Chasm

jvelez December 6, 2012 0 Comments
By Julian Velez Developed countries are trying to undermine the relevance of the Bali Road Map as a whole, as well as the Durban Package laid out last year. These include a 2nd commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (KP), and comparable mitigation actions by developed countries for non-KP parties under the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) and Nationally Appropriate...

CJN! intervention to the ADP

Nathan Thanki December 5, 2012 0 Comments
This statement is due to be delivered by Meena Raman from Third World Network, a member of Climate Justice Now! to the ADP plenary. When that plenary happens (it has been postponed several times) we will endeavour to upload a video.  It is astounding that developed countries appear to be engaging in doublespeak here in Doha. At your roundtable discussions, we heard them talk of climate...

Tuesday’s Child

Nathan Thanki December 4, 2012 0 Comments
by Nathan Thanki and Bogdan Zymka (as part of our effort to be a resource to Youth groups, the following was sent to UNFCCC youth on Tuesday night) The opening of the high level plenary began today. Nothing really dramatic yet--apart from the ridiculous opening ceremony which actually included an interview that said "one must not be ashamed of doing something unspectacular or with low...

Monday’s Child

tzundel December 4, 2012 0 Comments
by Trudi Zundel as part of our attempt to keep people up to speed, this note was sent to YOUNGO on Monday Night. It is by no means complete, and we do not claim to be "objective" (whatever that is) LCA There was a huge fight in LCA today over a new Chairs text; the text  had blank pages under finance, adaptation, technology transfer, capacity building, and response measures. A...

Once Upon a Time in the West [South]

Anjali Appadurai December 4, 2012 0 Comments
by Anjali Appadurai All was quiet on the desert front. Party delegates prepared quietly for the meeting of the Long-Term Cooperative Action (LCA) working group, for which they had been presented with a recent text drafted by the Chair. In the calm before the storm, many of us wondered if the G77+China, a group of the majority of the world's developing countries, would be able to hold a united...