With the choice of a high road and a low road from Lima to Paris, the Parties seem to have selected the dirt track off …
Category: Durban
COP18 – largely administrative, but with a sting in the tail
Albert Einstein once said that “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. So it was …
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In search of a new home for CERs
Two recent publications highlight the challenges ahead in the multilateral process that continues to seek an equitable global approach to the issue of growing CO2 …
The inconvenient evidence piles up!
As the NASA Curiosity rover touched down gently on Mars and began its 2+ year observation and exploration of its surrounding terrain, the NASA Goddard …
A new market mechanism from the UNFCCC
While much of the focus in the recent UNFCCC meeting in Bonn was on the protracted discussion around agenda and chair for the ADP (Ad-Hoc …
A Tweet to change the world
Anyone who followed COP 17 in Durban would have noticed that the UNFCCC and its Executive Secretary, Christiana Figueres, are active Tweeters. But one Tweet …
Durban – Success, failure or . . . . . ?
After two busy weeks, the Durban COP was extended by a full day and then went well into a second, with long nights of negotiation …
