tcktcktck — Copenhagen 7 Dec 09 | The World Is Ready

Discouraged by the outcome of the Copenhagen climate summit last December as well as how negotiations at the just concluded talks in Bonn in Germany seem to have turned out, developing nations made up of mainly those from Africa are now looking inwards as a way out of the dilemma.

Source: Daily Independent

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Rich and poor nations alike criticized a new blueprint for a UN climate treaty yesterday as two weeks of talks among 185 countries ended with small steps toward an elusive deal.

A streamlined climate draft, meant to help talks on a new pact, cut out some of the most draconian options for greenhouse gas and dropped all references to "Copenhagen" -where a UN summit in December fell short of agreeing to a treaty.

Source: Montreal Gazette

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Climate change envoys inched toward an eventual treaty, narrowing gaps between industrialized and developing nations during two weeks of global-warming talks that conclude today in Bonn.

Source: BusinessWeek

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Our French tracker, Florent Baarsch, ambushed Yvo while he was off enjoying a cigarette outside the Maritim, and our favorite Negotiator agreed to sit down with us for a few minutes.

Check out this pleasantly candid interview from Yvo’s last days on the job. You’re about to hear a bit about how the US oil spill relates connects to Bonn, there’s some word association, we talked leadership from China, and some of the perils of relentlessly pursuing a legally binding deal.

Thanks to OneClimate for filming the chat.

Source: Adopt a Negotiator

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The United Nations has said that the $30 billion short term funding agreed in Copenhagen, Sweden, in 2009 to assist developing countries combat climate change would be disbursed as grant and not loan.

Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary, United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change, said on Monday that only Japan who pledged $15 billion to the proposed fund indicated that certain portion of her pledge would come as loan.

"The agreement is that the fund has to be delivered as grant. If we get loans on top of the 30 billion dollars it will be fine and good," he said.

Source: 234 Next

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Renewed climate change negotiations got underway this weekend in Bonn, where outgoing United Nations climate chief Yvo de Boer warned that little progress can be made toward an international treaty until wealthy industrialized nations commit to deliver the $30 billion pledged in Copenhagen to assist developing nations take action to stem the effects of climate disruption.

At a press conference in Germany over the weekend, UNFCCC Executive Secretary de Boer warned that, "Cancun will only deliver, if promises of help are kept."

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With the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change intersessional negotiations underway in Bonn for the next two weeks, media outlets from all corners of the world are sharing their predictions and opinions on the possible outcomes.

Australia's ABC News sees 'promising signs' at the Bonn negotiations:

Erwin Jackson, the deputy chief executive of the Sydney's Climate Institute, says Copenhagen was the first time all the major economies agreed to what are effectively economy-wide emission reduction commitments.

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Government representatives from around the world opened a new session of negotiations today in Bonn, Germany to begin again the process of developing an international agreement that will significantly reduce worldwide greenhouse gas emissions and avoid the worst effects of climate change.

The big question on everyone's mind is: Will negotiations get back on track after the disappointing outcome at the last big round of talks in Copenhagen?

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The Adopt a Negotiator trackers are packing our bags for Bonn and eager to get this next round of UN climate talks underway. You can follow the efforts of our team of trackers through the TckTckTck Fresh Air Center, or on our site.

Before the negotiations start again on Monday, we want to share a few opportunities to prepare you for tracking the upcoming talks in Bonn.

Source: Adopt a Negotiator

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has named Costa Rica's Christiana Figueres to be the organization's top official on climate change, his spokesman announced Monday.

UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said the 53-year-old Costa Rican, currently San Jose's climate change negotiator, would succeed Yvo de Boer of the Netherlands as the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC).

Source: Yahoo! News

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