Dickinson to Durban » Climate Change
The Nuts and Bolts Bringing Hope
http://www.ucalgary.ca/wwviewscanada/system/files/images/earth-in-hands.jpg By: Esther Babson It may be the last day but I finally went to my first COP! I actually went earlier this week but it is definitely the highlight of my experience here. With all the side events, interviews and press briefings it was amazing I even found a COP during a time that I was free! After trying over and over again to get into meetings, only to be kicked out, I tried not to get my hopes up as I walked over to the “Honey Bucho Room” where the planery was. The meeting was a contact group with the Technology Executive Committee-Draft Decisions on Modalities and Procedures. Ok, so I know this does sound like the most boring event ever and it may have been on other days but … Read entire article »
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The hidden discussion – Technology Transfer: Is it necessary?
By Emily Bowie ’14 Article 4, paragraph 5 under the Convention states that: “The developed country Parties and other developed Parties included in Annex II shall take all practicable steps to promote, facilitate and finance, as appropriate, the transfer of, or access to, environmentally sound technologies and know-how to other Parties, particularly developing country Parties, to enable them to implement the provisions of the Convention.” At the 7th Conference of the Parties in 2001 a framework for this … Read entire article »
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Protected: Whither the Oceans in Climate Change negotiations?
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A Glimmer of Hope
By: Christine Burns ’14 Talks here at Durban have seemed pretty grim over the past two weeks, but maybe something will come together in the final hour! At the beginning of the COP the EU proposed a “road map” that might be able to pacify countries like the US. The road map is a plan to incorporate all major economies in a legal agreement by 2015. This means that countries like China and India which are major … Read entire article »
Filed under: Climate Change, Environmental Politics, Key COP17 Issues, Student Research
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