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Posts Tagged ‘accord’
Climate Change, Politics, Apr 13th, 2010,
An article in the Guardian, which I linked in yesterday’s post on the results of the Bonn climate talks, reproduces the text to a supposed confidential document outlining US policy vis-à-vis international climate negotiations. The document is described as revealing of US President Barack Obama’s ‘hardline’ climate talk strategy. The most incriminatingly hardline-sounding part of the text is this point: 5) Deepen support and understanding from the developing world that advanced developing countries must be part of any meaningful solution to climate change including taking responsibilities under a legally binding treaty. Maybe I’m too cynical or I’m missing some nuance…
Tags: accord, Bonn, climate, document, hardline, policy, talks, UN, US
Climate Change, Politics, Apr 12th, 2010,
The first UN climate talks since Copenhagen ended in Bonn, Germany, much as expected – with little concrete progress. The cleavage between industrialized and developing countries that characterized the Copenhagen conference is likely to continue through the next major climate talks in Cancun, Mexico at the end of the year. This rich poor divide provided the fireworks for the meetings in Bonn, which ultimately ended in an agreement to intensify negotiations before Mexico. From an article in the Guardian: In what was interpreted as a major rebuff to the US, Russia and Japan, the G77 (plus China) group of 130…
Tags: accord, ALBA, binding, Bolivia, Bonn, Cancun, China, climate, copenhagen, countries, deal, developing, japan, kyoto, Mexico, nations, talks, UN, US
Climate Change, Politics, Apr 9th, 2010,
Copenhagen it’s not, but the first UN climate meetings since December’s disappointment in Denmark began today in Bonn, Germany. According to a report from BBC News, developing countries are strongly on board with the UN process and would like to see a binding global climate deal under the Kyoto Protocol by the next major summit, which takes place in Mexico in November and December. But political will is lacking in some richer nations, especially the US. US President Barack Obama’s modest pledge made at Copenhagen to reduce emissions by 17% from 2005 levels by 2020 probably does not have the…
Tags: accord, Bonn, climate, Climate change, copenhagen, countries, developing, emissions, Germany, kyoto, meetings, Mexico, nations, protocol, rich, treaty, UN, US
Climate Change, Politics, Feb 2nd, 2010,
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' src='http://gf1.statico.be/wp-content/themes/greenfudge/thumbnails/6719.jpg' alt='breaking-not-good-enough-55-nations-sign-copenhagen-accord' class='art-teaser' width='95' height='95' /> 55 countries signed onto the Copenhagen accord by January 31st, the UN’s ‘soft deadline’ for submitting promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The 55 signatories – who are responsible for 78% of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning – include China, the US and all 27 European Union states. So far the pledges to reduce emissions are not sufficient for what is needed to keep the Earth’s temperature from rising 2C (3.6 F) above pre industrial levels, or 1.3C (2.3F) above today’s temperatures, according to the goals set out during the Copenhagen climate talks. Janos Pasztor, the top climate…
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