Detailed Coverage: COP Outcomes at COP 23 and 25 years of failed UNFCCC negotiations
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change reaches the milestone of 25th year.By: Vijeta Rattani
Blogs
Obama's grand climate plan doesn’t add up Author: Chandra Bhushan President Obama yesterday gave the most important speech on climate change in his tenure so far. In the words of Al Gore, it was the best “by any president ever”. It is a different matter that all the big cable news operators in the US chose to ignore this speech. Read more
Obama's grand climate plan doesn't add up
President Obama yesterday gave the most important speech on climate change in his tenure so far. In the words of Al Gore, it was the best “by any president ever”. It is a different matter that all the big cable news operators in the US chose to ignore this speech.
Climate Change Update
Work plan under Durban Platform may prove contentious
By: Indrajit Bose Date: Nov 28, 2012 Developing countries say the work plan can progress only if outstanding issues are resolved first Talks are now in full swing at the climate meet at Doha in Qatar. The negotiations, which are happening under three different tracks—ad hoc working groups on Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP), Long-Term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) and Durban Platform—have all been launched. And the differences between the negotiating countries, or Parties as they are called in the climate circuit, are out in the open in all the three tracks. Read more
Climate Change
Progress at Bonn marred by old climate politics Will negotiating parties be able to sort out their differences at Doha? By Uthra Radhakrishnan
Message from Bonn: Drop Bali agenda
Disagreements begin; parties to discuss informally to adopt long-term cooperation agenda By Uthra Radhakrishnan Two days into the ongoing negotiations at Bonn and the all too familiar rifts are visible. The primary disagreement is over how to move forward—whether to begin discussions from what was agreed to in the meeting of the Conference of Parties (CoP) in Bali in 2007 or the Durban CoP in 2011. Read more
LDCs ring the alarm bell before Bonn
Demand higher ambition; will EU still take the lead? By Uthra Radhakrishnan Just ahead of the mid-year climate change session at Bonn, starting on May 14, the least developed countries (LDCs) have issued a call for efforts to be directed towards raising ambition on mitigation for the pre-2020 period, calling it the sine qua non of a successful outcome on the new Durban Platform negotiations. Read more