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China in Copenhagen Day 5
Plenary sessions were closed off to observers today, which means that we unfortunately cannot beat the Earth Negotiations Bulletinwith insights as to what went down on the negotiating floor. Nonetheless, we were able to get quotes from Vice Minister of ForeignAffairs He Yafei (seated center; on his left is Yu Qingtai, leadingnegotiator in the Chinese [...]
Copenhagen Conference: Day 4
A war on drafts has broken out at the UN Climate Change conference, ona day which also say the European Union (EU) commit $3 billion US toclimate fund, the G-77 chief negotiator of walk out of talks in angerand a divisive split over a proposed the two degree target. As the Danish draft continues to [...]
Copenhagen and Applied Materials (AMAT)
Goodluck to the Conference of Parties in Copenhagen! I have the privilegeof traveling there over the weekend as part of a delegation organizedby California’s Climate Action Reserveand its program arm, the Center for Climate Action. This delegation ofover 100 individuals includes business people, state and localofficials and staff (including Governor Schwarzenegger, two other U.S.governors and two [...]
Myth vs. Reality on the Copenhagen Summit
Myth #1: Copenhagen is already a failure. Instead of abinding agreement we’ll end up with a political deal that gets usnowhere. Reality: We are on schedule at Copenhagen to complete thefirst of a two-step negotiating process designed to finish a newinternational agreement well in advance of the end of the firstcommitment period for the Kyoto [...]
A Post from Copenhagen
I’mposting from foggy Denmark. Much like Vermont, but flatter and withthatched roofs (beautiful roofs, but how would we attach PV)! A fewhundred years ago the area we are in, Tisvildeleje, was buried by sanddunes due to deforestation. These dunes buried entire villagesincluding a church we visited! Eventually they reseeded, thenreforested 60,000+ hectares of dune and [...]
China in Copenhagen Day 4: Back to BASICs!
We spent much of today making sense of the reverberations emanating from Tuvalu’s controversial proposal yesterdayand the subsequent stalling of the negotiations. We were able to gleansome updates through the plenary sessions, press briefings, and our owninterpretation of the texts in contention…(Somehow, people have startedapproaching us for the latest intel on what the “Tuvalu situation” is). [...]
Copenhagen Kickoff
Today marks the fist day of the event the world has been waiting for. Sort of. It has now been known for months that the UN climate conference in Copenhagen,also known as the Conference of the Parties 15, or COP-15, will notdeliver a full legally binding international agreement on climatechange action that we’ve all hoped [...]
Copenhagen 101
The ingredients for a successful outcome at Copenhagen are allthere. We are on track to set the architecture for a legally bindingagreement in 2010 by following a two-step Danish proposal supported byPresident Barack Obama and finalizing an interim agreement at themeeting. Here’s how actions by the Obama administration andinternational community have moved us toward [...]
Expert Says Cleantech Investment Not Dependent on Copenhagen
Investment in renewable energy could reach a record $200 billionworldwide in 2010 regardless of the outcome of climate talks inDenmark, New Energy Finance chair Michael Liebreich told Bloomberg News. Liebreich,whose firm provides research into the clean energy sector, said privateand public spending on technology like solar panels and wind turbineswill rise about 50% from $130 [...]