This second of two posts about the Tianjin climate talks gets into the dismal politics responsible for the stalled policies. The climate talks in Tianjin last week did very little to improve the prospects for a binding international treaty, which would reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are warming the globe. In the wake [...]
Posts Tagged ‘South Africa’
A Ray of Light In China? EPA administrator attempts to defuse climate standoff
Posted in Huffington Post, UN Dispatch, tagged Brazil, Cancun, China, Climate Change, Environmental, EPA, India, Kyoto Protocol, South Africa, Tianjin, UN on October 15, 2010 |
Dancing in the Dark: The Danger of Letting Business Lead on Climate Protection
Posted in Huffington Post, UN Dispatch, tagged Business, China, Climate Change, Clinton Global Initiative, Dance, e-Waste, Energy, Environment, Google, Government, India, Mobile, Nuclear, South Africa, UN on September 22, 2010 |
This was my write up of the first of a handful of great panel discussions I saw at CGI. In a candid session on energy and the environment at the Clinton Global Initiative yesterday, the world’s lead climate negotiator Christiana Figueres explained why her organization, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), had [...]
Why China is Unwilling to Play the Climate Negotiation Game
Posted in Huffington Post, UN Dispatch, tagged Brazil, Cancun, China, Climate Change, Climate Finance, Copenhagen Accord, Environment, India, Japan, Kyoto Protocol, Mexico, South Africa, UN on September 8, 2010 |
While the embattled Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may have been the leading climate-related news the past couple weeks, of more importance to the international negotiations were two meetings at opposite ends of the globe. A week ago Saturday, China and Japan held a one-day ministerial level meeting in Beijing to discuss economic matters, among [...]
Flooding, Fires, and Climate Finance: Is there enough fast-start funding?
Posted in Huffington Post, UN Dispatch, tagged BASIC, Bonn, Brazil, Cancun, China, Climate Finance, Copenhagen Accord, Environment, India, Kyoto Protocol, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, World Resources Institute on August 26, 2010 |
The World Resources Institute recently released updated estimates of the “fast-start” climate mitigation and adaption commitments rich nations made to poor countries after the Copenhagen summit. The headline figures are pretty impressive: Developed nations have set aside an estimated $27.9 billion, a combined total that is only $2 billion shy of the amount they promised [...]
