Tag: outcome

The Last Night in Durban

COA Admin December 9, 2011 0 Comments
by Samuli Sinisalo A lot has happened today, I hope. Everything that is going on takes place behind closed doors, so we have no way of accurately reporting it the play by play. The ministerial Inbada started just few minutes ago, and that will hopefully bring some clarity to the situation. So far there are two draft texts presented by the COP presidency, to conclude the work in Durban. Text from...

Ministers begin their work

COA Admin December 8, 2011 0 Comments
 by Samuli Sinisalo The ministerial Indaba-consultations about the Durban outcome begin tonight. In front of them, the ministers have five options for the possible outcome. No decision is not amongst them at this level. The first option is to implement a new legal instrument under article 17 of the convention. This would mean that the contents of the new instrument can be anything - made up in...

Options for the Outcome

COA Admin December 8, 2011 0 Comments
by Samuli Sinisalo The last 48 hours of Durban are at hand. Decisions are going to be made, one way or another. On the future mandate, the LCA working group on legal options for the outcome, came up with a conference room paper yesterday. That paper specified four options for the LCA outcome from Durban. And as we well know, most Kyoto proposals are conditional on what comes out from the LCA....

Possible outcomes from Durban

COA Admin December 3, 2011 0 Comments
by Samuli Sinisalo After one week of negotiations, what are some of the possible outcomes we can expect from Durban? The negotiations run on the two tracks: Kyoto Protocol and the Long term Cooperative Action. From the Kyoto track, there are at least four possible outcomes: 1) No second commitment period is signed and Kyoto Protocol is buried and forgotten 2) Negotiations for second commitment...