Climate talks:Still hope to do the right things
Barcelona climate talks has been a ‘lost and found’ session where African nations found their muscles and pushed for ambitious targets while industrialized countries lost their political will for a legally binding treaty in time for Copenhagen.
Outside the UNFCCC process leading politicians are playing a distancing game while some slow progress was made in [...]
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Sneak peak-UK shamed, other actions and press do’s
In efforts to lower expectations for Copenhagen climate deal the UK climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, today announced publicly that the Copenhagen summit would produce no legal climate change treaty, but insisted a politically binding agreement was still possible. Here is a scene from the UN Talks today where activists cry foul for such a [...]
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Real threats as Africa takes ‘grand stand’
Finally there is some real drama and excitement in the climate talks as the African groups unleashed their frustration in Barcelona.
The African delegations put their foot down and said they wouldn’t negotiate the finer details of a global climate deal until some fundamentals were resolved.
Early this week the African delegations closed the Kyoto Protocol track [...]
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Brazil fails to play a strong role at the climate talks
The Brazilian government were on the verge of announcing their emissions reduction targets and sharing numbers on how much they will reduce their greenhouse gas emissions but however they decided to sit back and wait at a time when the world is calling for ambitious actions on climate.
Carlos Alberto de Mattos Scaramuzza from WWF Brazil [...]
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Islanders take on end of Barcelona climate talks