By Saleem Khan
As governments and other agencies spend more money on adaptation to climate change they want to know that their investments are effective.-that adaptation will keep development on track, that there is a fair distribution of costs and benefits, and that climate resilience is being built.

By Dipesh Chapagain 
(Durban) “There is a need for a stronger political commitment beyond narrow short term interest, we should not let our people down”, Hon. Environment Minister Hemraj Tater, Government of Nepal stressed in his statement in high level segment of the UN climate change conference (COP 17/CMP 7) in Durban, South Africa on December 7, 2011.

By Dipesh Chapagain
The first half of the UN climate change conference (COP17) in Durban was about to end and parties were unsure about the outcomes from the conference. Meeting of both the subsidiary body (SBI and SBSTA) were in the closing stage and negotiation was about to enter into the high level segment.

By Tirthankar Mandal
Technology is one of the rare areas where in the potential to arrive at a substantial agreement here in Durban. The task on the table was to operationalise the Technology Mechanism by 2012. The components of the technology mechanism consist of establishing a Climate technology Centre and Network (CTCN), and Technology Executive Committee (TEC).

Sri Lanka has sent an official delegation of 20 to the UNFCCC COP17/CMP7, the largest delegation ever in Climate Change negotiations. It is an indication that climate change has come up in the government’s priority list over the last few years. This is a warmly welcome by all environment lobby groups in Sri Lanka and South Asia. However, there is lot more to do by Sri Lanka on climate change negotiations.

It is clear that there has been substantive discussion taking place in the negotiations here in #Bonn . Few issues like NGO participations in the informal discussions, legal issues and the package of the KP CP2 discussion took the central stage over the few days. Apart from these the other interesting news was the Indian […]

Amid much of expectations from the Parties to fast track the negotiations, the last round of Intersessional before the COP has begun in #Panama. Positive side of the first day’s development was marked by intention of the parties to get into the real business. Pretty surprises were there in store during the post lunch session […]

The focus of the day was the #NAMA workshop. This is a second set of countries who have presented on their actions after the first round in Bangkok early this year. The countries in line were Vietnam, Chile, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Kenya, AOSIS, Norway, and USA as the main presenters. The parties have explained the plans […]

The most prominent of the issue during the negotiations was the workshop by the Parties in relation to their obligations and efforts towards emission reductions. It must be acknowledged that the usual suspects, like Canada, and USA presented their efforts. While the other parties like the Denmark, Croatia actually made efforts to explain their actions […]

The fears of the parties about getting further rounds of stalled process in the negotiation got somehow wiped out with the two working groups moving ahead on their usual discussion and adoption of the Agenda. Both the AWG LCA and the AWG KP went off smoothly with their discussion, clearly showing that the technical modalities […]