
Fossil of the Day Awards The UN Climate Talks in Barcelona are closing today. Canada wins a Third Place Fossil of the Day, a First Place Fossil of the Day & takes home the First Place Fossil Of The Week Award.

So let us make sure we understand this correctly: the African Group, AOSIS, the G77, the EU, the UN and even the Umbrella Group want a legally binding instrument. So where’s the problem? ...

Never waste a good crisis, runs the adage. On Wednesday, the (IIASA) presented a new report outlining Annex I mitigation costs and potentials based on the effects of the economic crisis. The report uses post-crisis GDP projections based on the IEA’s 2009 world energy outlook. ...

Commenting on the shared vision the other day, a negotiator who also happens to be a university professor noted that he tells his students to not write their conclusions before finishing the content of their papers...

Barcelona, Spain, November 4, 2009: At the halfway point of the UN climate talks in Barcelona this week, the USA was named as ‘Fossil of the Day’, with Canada coming in second, by a vote of the Climate Action Network International (CAN-I) – a global coalition of over 450 leading non-g...

Now that the dust has mostly settled and Parties are back at the negotiating table in the KP track, it is a good moment to take stock and reflect on the African Group gambit earlier in the week...

When the African Group raised the stakes in the KP plenary earlier this week, its representatives explained that the action was prompted by the serious human suffering already occurring in Africa due to climate change...

Barcelona, Spain, November 4, 2009: At the halfway point of the UN climate talks in Barcelona this week, the USA was named as ‘Fossil of the Day’, with Canada coming in second, by a vote of the Climate Action Network International (CAN-I) – a global coalition of over 450 leading non-g...

When constructing a solid building, starting from scratch is often more efficient and cheaper than to trying to retrofit an existing building for a new, much larger purpose...

ECO would like an answer to this question: What would you do if your country, lands and the livelihoods of your people were going to become unliveable or disappear under water or sand or face substantial damages beyond their capacity to adapt...

Two experienced UNFCCC activists explain how to become “climate smarties” and create a fair, effective and ambitious global climate deal. Generally, when we discuss the effects that greenhouse gases have on the world’s atmosphere, we prefer the term climate change. Glob...

What a difference only three weeks has made. Delegates, before checking up on your homework assignments from Bangkok, let’s take a step back and look at the wider political picture. Several governments previously not seen or heard from are frantically preparing for Copenhagen. ...

After delaying the decision all year, last week’s summit of EU heads of state and government finally agreed on concrete numbers for the scale of public financing needed for adaptation and mitigation in developing countries. ...

Right now in Barcelona is the time for Annex I Parties to change their LULUCF strategy and stop looking for cheap and easy credits from this sector...











