There has been a huge amount of coverage of conferences so far this year, the G20 foremost among them. » Read more...
A proposal paper published this week by the EU’s Czech presidency this week has cast light on what may be some of the main features of a post-Kyoto deal. » Read more...
The G20 summit is in full swing and the world is looking to London for a whole range of solutions. » Read more...
Ed Miliband's statement on climate change at the G20 was short and to the point. » Read more...
In line with expectations, EU leaders did not make any substantial progress on agreeing their Copenhagen negotiating position in their Council meeting last week. » Read more...
Climatico's Jennifer Helgeson gives her impressions and conclusions from this week's Climate Congress The science that will direct the UN Climate Change Conference to be hosted by the Danish Government in December 2009 was discussed by more than 2500 delegates from almost 80 countries from 10-12 March 2009 in at the Copenhagen Climate Congress. » Read more...
While the highly anticipated summit in Copenhagen is in December, there are already international negotiations taking place amongst country representatives. » Read more...
Like most EU talks seem to be nowadays, those today on climate change were rather fractious, specifically the debates around adaptation financing.The current EU position for Copenhagen estimates that "net global incremental investment" for tackling climate change needs to be 175 billion euros by 2020, with 100 billion euros of that spent in developing countries. » Read more...
The 45th meeting of the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism was carried between Feb.12th and 13th. » Read more...
A few weeks ago, a new website monitoring climate funds was launched. » Read more...
Barely a month after the end of the Pozna? » Read more...
When asked to think about the relationship between climate change and Indonesia, the most likely answers would revolve around rainforests, deforestation, orangutans and loss of livelihoods. » Read more...
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s recent “Journey of confidence” through the EU, including visits to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the European Commission in Brussels and Britain, was intended to demonstrate China’s international leadership and co-operation on the global economy and climate change. » Read more...
The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) ended yesterday. » Read more...
The good news As reported in this blog last week, new rules governing the distribution of foreign donor aid under the REDD scheme had been delayed. » Read more...
At Poznan a number of developing countries - China, Mexico and Brazil - took the opportunity to announce new climate change initiatives. » Read more...
In Bali last year, the ICC and WBCSD, as representatives of global business at the climate talks, named their one-day side event "Tri Hita Karana", a proverb taken from a Balinese philosophy which emphasizes that happiness can only be attained if the Creator, people and nature live in harmony with each other. » Read more...
Last week, from the midst of COP-14 in Poland, I reported that the major developed countries were engaged in something of a waiting game on emissions targets, each waiting to see what others would do before announcing their own. » Read more...
Talks at Poznan about a re-engineering of the Clean Development Mechanism, Kyoto Protocol’s righteous son, have been Bonn-ed. » Read more...
As Poznan, COP 14, an intermediate negotiations phase draws to a close and delegates from all over the world disperse, it is clear that there was very limited progress made on reforming the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in the short-term. » Read more...