CSE at CoP-16, Cancun
Cancun draft pleases all, except a belligerent Bolivia! The deal circumvents all the contentious issues, erases historical debts, avoids legally binding global emission targets for wealthy nations, leaves the thorn of IPR in technology transfer mechanism for Durban CoP17 among others.
As CSE had warned, Cancun turned out to be compromises of epic proportions for the poorer countries, without any substantive returns from the developed nations. Lest Development and Millenium Development Goals be forgotten.
Politics, surely, has triumphed over science.
Liability, compliance must be mainstreamed in climate movements
Civil society needs to forge partnerships with lawyers, scientists and take legal recourse to enforce accountability
New Delhi, March 3: Next two years will be critical for the civil society and NGOs working in the field of climate change to ensure that the negotiations yield meaningful compliance and liability mechanisms.
The Cancun Camouflage
Historic debt turns 'bad', politics wins over science of climate change
By Aditya Ghosh
In international diplomacy, there is nothing called 'absolute consensus' so expecting one on climate change would have been plain stupid. But beyond various national interests and commitments to billions of a future without excruciating poverty, we wanted a simple mechanism – one that would save the earth from the catastrophic impacts of climate change that might jeopardise human civilisation itself.
The Last Hurrah, soaked in 'spirit of compromise'
Negotiators have a menu too long on the last day, here how they are poised
By Aditya Ghosh
Comfort of compromises
Complacently deadlocked nations at Cancun are posing cruel questions of extinction for some. Can we talk climate for a change?
By Aditya Ghosh
Ever heard of Kaminaga Kaminaga?
At Cancun the move is to replace the regime to voluntary targets for all. India’s shift in policy to support this regime will be disastrous for an effective and equitous agreement
The climate endgame in Cancun and how I suspect it will play out in the next 48-hours
By Sunita Narain, CSE, 10 am Cancun time, December 9, 2010
Tech-transfer finds consensus on all but IPR issue
Text to be presented to high level ministerial segment could be the first positive outcome at Cancun
By Arnan Pratim Dutta
Cancun: A semblance of agreement on the crucial element of technology transfer may emerge as the first positive outcome at Cancun on the 10th day when a rather diluted text on the matter is handed over to the high level segment, where ministers get involved in negotiations.
Indian ICA proposal finds partial support in new drafts on mitigation actions
Cancun, December 2, 2010
By Arnab Pratim Dutta
India stuns all at Cancun by opening up to binding emission commitments
Minister goes extempore, deviates from written speech to make announcement that writes off 'historical debt' and poses a challenge to development of millions in poverty
By Arnab Pratim Dutta
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