Bettina Cerban on December 8th, 2009

A little over an hour ago I interviewed Dr. Sumaya ZakiEldeen, a member of Sudan’s delegation and a professor at Khartoum University, along with Phil Rothrock and Doni Hoffman. While discussing Sudan’s position and her current work in capacity building, she called attention to the disparities in the resources and time allocated to climate change […]

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Kelly Rogers on December 8th, 2009

This semester at Dickinson I took a course about Comparative Law. All semester we studied the differences and similarities between legal systems of different nations. One author we read, Patrick Glenn, suggests that by studying an individual nation’s legal systems and traditions, one can uncover “truth.” Since I have been at the Cop-15 here in […]

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Andrea Dominguez on December 8th, 2009

I spoke with Mr. Hirofumi Aizawa of the Japan delegation yesterday after the plenary meeting about Japan’s view on “common but differentiated responsibilities” and Japan’s commitment to mitigation targets and its financial commitment to aiding developing countries. Mr. Aizawa said that Japan’s financial commitment will be announced next week, before the end of the negotiations.

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Grace Lange on December 7th, 2009

How can you ensure sustainable development from CDM projects? I just sat in on a side-event on the EU and China’s perspective on CDM projects in China. One of the main issues identified, was that the CDM projects in China did not contribute enough to sustainable development. The CDM has two main objectives: the help […]

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Pick one or the other: Climate Change or  Natural Gas Drilling. When, Neil Leary, Elizabeth Martin Perera and I met with James Warner, a legislative assistant to Arlen Specter, to discuss climate change, this was the answer. It’s not that the senate is against global climate change action; it’s that they represent such a diversity […]

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