Tag: UN Bangkok
Bangkok Dispatch: Now It’s Our Turn
The international climate talks in Bangkok, Thailand ended last week with little progress but a clear directive. Political leaders must give their negotiating teams some parameters to enable real negotiations to take place and reach a final agreement in Copenhagen in December.
The talks didn’t really do too much more or less than expected. We wouldn’t [...]
Posted: October 15th, 2009 under Climate Change, Policy, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: Chrissy Schwinn, Climate Change, Copenhagen, Indonesia climate, Norway carbon, Planet Change, UN Bangkok, UN climate treaty, UNFCCC
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Bangkok Dispatch: Elephants Take Over Climate Talks
We are headed into Week Two of international climate negotiations here in Bangkok. Progress is slow…but there is some progress. I asked Andrew Deutz, The Nature Conservancy’s director of international government relations, to provide some context on what’s going on…and what it means for a climate-change agreement in Copenhagen this December:
Q: What progress has been [...]
Posted: October 5th, 2009 under China, Climate Change, Policy, Rainforests, Uncategorized, United States.
Tags: Andrew Deutz, Chrissy Schwinn, climate agreement, Climate Change, Climate Week, cop15, Copenhagen, deforestation, REDD, reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation, UN Bangkok, UN Climate Week
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Bangkok Dispatch: Climate Negotiations Resume
We are back on the negotiating trail, this time in Bangkok, continuing international discussions that happened in Bonn in June and August. I arrived here late last night wondering what I would wake up to in the morning. So much has been happening recently on climate change, from last week’s “Climate Week” in New York [...]
Posted: October 2nd, 2009 under Climate Change, Coral Reefs, Policy, United States.
Tags: climate agreement, Climate Change, cop15, Copenhagen, Coral Reefs, countries around the world, developing countries, ecosystems, fires in southern california, global climate, hot issues, impacts of climate change, international discussions, negotiation, senate committee, UN Bangkok, urgent action
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