Blogs - Multilateral Negotiations

Climate change threatening South Asian development: World Bank

[Delhi – India] – June 19, 2013 – #ClimateChange will overturn hard won gains in reducing poverty in #SouthAsia as changing weather patterns make accessing water and food resources even more difficult, according to a new report released by the #WorldBank today. Extreme weather such as heat waves, devastating floods and droughts, and more intense […]

A Hot Blast of Hot Air from Doha Delivers Fossils to Poland and Russia

The First Place #FossilOfTheDay is awarded to Poland. Back home in Poland, Environment Minister Korolec, revealed the country’s position on the #Doha talks –  claiming the carryover of AAU credits is NOT a priority issue, but that the length of the second commitment period and the obligations contained in the Kyoto Protocol are. We should remind […]

Turkey’s Love Affair with Coal is a Real Fossil

The First Place #FossilOfTheDay is awarded to Turkey. Although Turkey is the world’s fourth largest investor in coal, recording the largest relative increase in annual GHG emissions between 1990–2010 with Ankara declaring 2012 the year of coal, Turkey is asking for more funds in the climate negotiations. This is even though Ankara did not post […]

Civil Society Awards Fossil to Rich Countries who Shun Kyoto Commitment

The First Place #FossilOfTheDay is awarded to USA, Canada, Russia, Japan and New Zealand for running away from a legally binding, multilateral rules based regime.  To the USA seriously, get over your exceptionalism and agree to common accounting rules already.  Canada you are exceptional in ways we cannot communicate diplomatically during a fossil presentation, but it […]

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