With delegates, energy / environment Ministers, business representatives and NGO leaders arriving in Durban for COP 17, attention again turns to the pressing issue of …
Category: UNFCCC
CAFE Standards and USA CO2 emissions
Given that the US Administration has lodged a commitment with the UNFCCC to reduce US emissions by 17% by 2020 (relative to 2005), the question …
Six topics for the candidates
As the US heads into the process of electing its next President, many subjects and issues will be debated. While climate change may not be …
Down to business in Bonn
Over the next two weeks the national negotiating teams to the UNFCCC will meet in Bonn to continue the discussions on a global agreement and …
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 …
