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UN Climate Talks in Durban, South Africa

  • What happened at COP17?

    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 the world we want to live in and to secure the safe climate we need.

    Read more: Full Statement >>

    • Calendar & Files

    Calendar & Files

    Welcome to Tck’s COP17 File Center. Here we will be sharing important files for use during the UN Conference of Parties in Durban, South Africa. Files types include media kits, Word, PDF & Excel docs, media assets, and our shared calendar.

    The Daily Tck

    Tcking Point

    Everyday the TckTckTck team in Durban prepares a news brief sharing the latest intelligence from our policy partners, key events and actions around the COP and ways for you to get involved. Add your name to our distribution list, and read the latest issues here.

    OneClimate LIVE in Durban

    Our partners at OneClimate are broadcasting live at COP17 everyday from 3pm to 6pm local time. Watch their livestream at OneClimate.net/Durban and read their live blog with up-to-the-minute updates from inside the negotiations.

    Adopt a Negotiator

    Track the progress of negotiators from 13 countries (and 9 different languages) through the eyes of independent young writers from around the world. See how citizens can shape climate change solutions at a global level!

    Recent Stories

  • Creative Commons: World Resources Institute, 2012
  • Manish Bapna: Good ideas for the economy and the environment

  • Here we present specific examples of common sense policies that can promote growth and cut greenhouse gas emissions. These actions fall across three crucial areas: energy, forestry and transport.... Read more »

  • Creative Commons: UN Climate Change, 2011
  • New climate treaty will be based on equity: US negotiators

  • Creating a different system of accounting for climate change -- one that puts all countries on an even legal playing field while still remaining sensitive to different levels of wealth and historic emissions -- promises to be a politically fraught and divisive task.... Read more »

  • 2011 in Review
  • 2011 in Review

  • 2011 was a year of changes and challenges. As millions suffered through the impacts of extreme weather and climate change, our partners in the climate movement rose up for them and with them. The victories of 2011 were hard fought, and they give us the foundation upon which our c... Read more »

  • INFOGRAPHIC: The year in climate action
  • INFOGRAPHIC: The year in climate action

  • The victories of 2011 were hard fought, and they give us the foundation upon which our collective movement will rise in 2012. ... Read more »

  • Courtesy: Kelly Rigg, 2011
  • 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 th... Read more »

  • Creative Commons: Peter Blanchard, 2007
  • 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.... Read more »

  • Creative Commons: Global Campaign for Climate Action, 2011
  • 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.... Read more »

  • Courtesy: Green Climate International, 2011
  • 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:... Read more »

  • Courtesy: Climate Action Tracker, 2011
  • 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 ActionT... Read more »

  • Creative Commons: UN Photo Service, 2011
  • 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 wi... Read more »

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