The tension was building throughout the week, but finally just before Valentine’s Day weekend the negotiators in Geneva completed the first draft of a Paris …
Category: Cancun
Targeting 2°C
There is now something of a religious fervor around the international goal of 2°C, to the extent that it is almost impossible to discuss other …
The USA on target? Yes, according to the Administration!
It has been an interesting week for climate change news, with the IPCC releasing its full report on renewable energy, the European Commission moving ahead …
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Cancun: Spending the money
What started in Copenhagen as an aspiration for $30 billion in fast-start financing and up to $100 billion per annum by 2020 in North-South financing …
Cancun: A reason for optimism?
Looking at a set of newspaper headlines earlier this week one might get the impression that nobody was quite sure whether progress had been made …
Cancun: A tale of two cities
Irrespective of the final outcome in Cancun this week, one issue that has become glaringly apparent over the last 12 days, at least as far …
Cancun and Beyond: Financing the Energy Future
Pick up almost any article on climate change today and it won’t be too long before your attention is turned towards the subject of financing. …
Looking towards Cancun
The unusual end-point to the Copenhagen climate conference last December and the rounds of UNFCCC negotiations that have followed in 2010 could lead even the …