It’s that time of the year again. Climate change talks are heating up, with the next conference of parties scheduled in Durban in end-November. There is heat but no light. The negotiations are stuck despite the clear signs of climate change: dangerous and potentially catastrophic extreme weather events.
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The discussion on the latest draft decision text and language has been thrown open, for Tuvalu has made a strong and determined representation against the use of new market mechanisms as instruments of climate mitigation in the climate treaty of the future. We are scanning the document. More on it later.
Durban, December 7: Tuesday wasn’t a heavy day at the Nkosi Albert Luthuli Convention Centre for the ‘non-governmental’, the way my presence at CoP 17 is measured, reported and verified. For country negotiators, though, it was a heavy-duty day: throughout the day, informal groups of delegates were locked in consultations.
Agenda item 3.2.5: Various approaches, including opportunities for using markets, to enhance the cost-effectiveness of, and to promote, mitigation actions, bearing in mind different circumstances of developed and developing countries
The climate talk at Durban is heading for a stalemate. I do not see any major breakthrough other than some sort of “Durban declaration / mandate” to take the negotiation process forward. We might also have some decision on Green Climate Fund and its architecture, which the host South Africa and the African Union is pushing for.
2011: 10th warmest year on record
Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General, CSE, on the status of negotiations and the future of COP17, Durban
India's Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan talks tough at the BASIC press conference at COP17, Durban
A debate between LDC & The EU
Makes her first public address in Durban at a side event organised by CSE in association with the ministry
Cuban negotiator on the status of the KP II and G77 unity
Intervention of India in the LCA stocktaking plenary 10:00-11:30 AM; 5th December 2011
Organizers: Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India and the Centre for Science and Environment (www.cseindia.org), New Delhi Date and time: Monday, December 5, 2011; 18.30-20.00 Venue: Blyde River Room, Durban Exhibition Centre, Durban