Copenhagen and its Implications
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Introducing the Copenhagen Accord
24 December 2009
So COP-15 is over. The two-year process that began in Bali has been extended into 2010, and nations will head to Mexico next year to try again to negotiate what they failed to agree on at Copenhagen.
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The Copenhagen Accord has long-term potential far beyond Kyoto
21 December 2009
The Copenhagen Accord has received largely negative press in the two days since it was agreed, but according to the Grantham Institute at the London School of Economics, the pledges that have been made by developed and developing countries so far offer a 50:50 chance of keeping temperature rises to less than 2 degrees.
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Copenhagen and the CDM
20 December 2009
While the debate over the Copenhagen Accord raged on Friday and Saturday morning, the Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) quietly approved improvements to the operation of the Clean Development Mechanism.
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Copenhagen update: US, major developing economies reach deal
18 December 2009
Leaders of the United States, China, India, Brazil and South Africa reached a deal late on Friday for what has been called the "Copenhagen Accord."
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Copenhagen update: The Copenhagen Accord draft text
18 December 2009
Leaders have prepared a second draft of their proposed closing statement to the COP-15 meeting in Copenhagen.
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Copenhagen update: Tension mounts as end-game approaches
18 December 2009
It appears as though COP-15 is nearing its end-game. Ministers and heads of state have re-drafted the text for a leaders' statement which we referred to earlier this afternoon, and have reportedly removed any reference to a deadline by which a post-2012 agreement must be reached.There are still no quantified aggregate targets for emissions reductions in the draft.
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Notes from Copenhagen: Transparency also means sensitivity
18 December 2009
As we wrote yesterday, transparency's been a bit of an issue at this year's COP. The US wants more of it, China says it has plenty of it already, while the CDM doesn't have enough of it. But the NGOs don't have any, they say.
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Copenhagen update: leaders preparing COP political statement; treaty seen in 2010
18 December 2009
World leaders are preparing a draft political statement which will set out the process to nail down a post-2012 climate change framework treaty next year.
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Guest commentary: From behind the cordon
18 December 2009
Tight security and logistical and administrative difficulties mean that NGOs, including "Business NGOs", have been allowed very scant access to the negotiations in their final hours. Our team is still "on the inside".
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Copenhagen update: Mixed atmosphere as final session starts
18 December 2009
As president Barack Obama lands in Copenhagen to lend his political weight to the efforts to reach a deal on Friday morning, the prospects for an agreement appear rather mixed.
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