Tag: LCA

Big Picture Overview: State of Play

Anjali Appadurai December 3, 2012 0 Comments
By Anjali Appadurai and Nathan Thanki This is our analysis -- informed by various actual experts -- of what is currently happening in these negotiations from a birds-eye view. Look at it as a stock-taking of sorts. (Please comment if we use too much jargon.) Overview We are headed towards a 6-degree warming world. We all know the impacts of this. What needs to happen is very serious emissions...

What’s that word again…?

aodell November 29, 2012 0 Comments
by Anna Odell The following statement was delivered during an press conference on Wednesday, November 28th.  The word equity is mentioned a lot within the UNFCCC, and today I would like to expand upon what equity actually looks like and what negotiations must deliver for there to be an equitable outcome in Doha. Equity is the only road to ambition, and the climate legacy that must be...

Durban opened a new window: where do the emerging economies stand?

Angeline Annesteus November 28, 2012 0 Comments
by Angeline Annesteus The climate talks in Doha are expected to be an important step in the history of the United Nations climate negotiations. The Ad Hoc Working Group under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) and the Ad Hoc Working for Long-Term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) are mandated to culminate their work, and the second formal session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for...

What do countries think about the Durban Platform for enhanced action?

Nathan Thanki November 23, 2012 0 Comments
by nathan thanki Welcome to the first COP of the rest of your lives. Though Copenhagen will forever remain the most widely observed, undermined, devastated, ruinous UNFCCC meeting, it wasn’t until Durban that the sea change became official. US lead negotiator Todd Stern’s famous “if equity is in, we’re out” sneer epitomised the new paradigm that is being cemented in...

Bonn Intersessionals Kick off

greeder May 14, 2012 0 Comments
~by Joe Perullo and Graham Reeder The sun is shining in the old capital of western Germany as the 36th session of the Subsidiary Bodies (Implementation and Scientific and Technical Advise) kick off on day 1 of the Bonn intersessionals. Intersessionals are smaller meetings than COPs, they are charged with getting the work done that the annual COPs agree to and preparing for the following year's...