More COP17
Youth marry climate policy and science in Bonn
Marking the mid-way point between COP17 in Durban and COP18 in Doha next week, the climate talks taking place in Bonn over the next fortnight are a much more low-key affair. Youth groups around the world are again ensuring their voices are heard within the process – by performing a special ceremony outside Bonn’s Martim Hotel, where the conference is taking place, marrying together policy and science.
Kelly Rigg: With Durban talks behind us, what’s next?
The British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead died more than 60 years ago, but he could have been talking about the Durban climate conference when he said, “Necessity is the mother of invention is a silly proverb.Necessity is the mother of futile dodges is much nearer the truth.” Reactions to the Durban outcome have ranged from “landmark achievement” [...]
Elizabeth May: The price for Canada’s withdrawl from Kyoto
I am just back from Durban and COP17. So is Peter Kent. Only he came back and announced that Canada will strike a blow at the fragile agreement that was just produced. As I am sure you have heard, Canada has filed the legal paperwork to withdraw from Kyoto.
Durban negotiations help strengthen fight against climate change
UN climate change conferences don’t of themselves cut greenhouse gas emissions. Negotiations about targets and texts cannot do that; only government policies that incentivise and require business investment in low carbon technologies and other emission-reducing activities can.
Tck partners respond to outcome of COP17
Here are some of the responses from our partners to the outcome of the COP17 International climate change negotiations held in Durban, South Africa:
Scientists outline risks of a world that’s 3 degrees warmer
As the climate talks in Durban concluded with a groundbreaking establishment of the Durban Platform to negotiate a new global agreement by 2015, scientists stated that the world continues on a pathway of over 3°C warming with likely extremely severe impacts, the Climate ActionTracker said today.
At COP17 the world kept talking as the temperature keeps rising
At Durban, the world’s biggest polluters got dangerously close to collapsing the multilateral response to climate change and to locking us into disastrous levels of global warming with severe implications for all life on Earth. Rescuing COP17 from collapse at the last minute with a bare minimum deal, we have defended our chance to create [...]
Take urgent action to help push the USA towards a deal at COP17
Our amazing partners from Avaaz have just sent out this email to some of their supporters in the USA. We’re reposting it in full with their permission – climate change is a global challenge and with all of your help, maybe we’ll help the US raise their ambition and save the Durban talks. “Running into [...]
Heather Libby: The line in the sand
It is shockingly quiet in the ICC today. After the enthusiasm, the singing and the mayhem of yesterday this feels like a different place altogether. These talks are progressing slowly and information access is very limited. With every minute that passes by without a scheduled plenary, or a note of what’s coming next, the collective [...]
Day 12.5 and the state of play at COP17
Whatever the outcome, it is clear that an agreement struck here will not, on its own, ensure the level of action necessary to stay below four degrees warming. Governments must come together around the most ambitious package possible today to keep the door open on efforts to really get to grips with the climate crisis.
