In a speech given at Dartmouth College at the beginning of this month, US Lead Climate Negotiator Todd Stern caused some consternation in the media …
Category: UNFCCC
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 …
Five short stories from WEO
The IEA’s World Energy Outlook (WEO) is an annual tradition, the result of much work, data analysis and presentation. A formative volume is produced for …
Science, risk management or just politics?
An opinion piece that appeared in the Wall Street Journal (Europe) on Tuesday (a few days earlier in the USA) presented the views of sixteen …
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 …
A “Catch 22” to be delivered from Durban?
One of the key potential deliverables from Durban is an operational Green Climate Fund (GCF). This is one of the important components of the pledge …
What could COP 17 in Durban achieve?
As delegates start negotiations in Durban, the major issues of the Kyoto Protocol and a “Roadmap to 2020” are dominating the news wires. The big …
Can global emissions really be reduced?
With delegates, energy / environment Ministers, business representatives and NGO leaders arriving in Durban for COP 17, attention again turns to the pressing issue of …
