{"id":1763,"date":"2011-12-02T09:19:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T09:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2011-12-02T09:36:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T09:36:03","slug":"kunjani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/2011\/12\/kunjani\/","title":{"rendered":"Kunjani?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maggie Rees<\/p>\n

A quick Zulu lesson\u2026<\/p>\n

Kunjani? \u2013 How are you?<\/p>\n

Ngiphilile \u2013 I am well<\/p>\n

IMG_0229<\/a><\/p>\n

Here in Durban, ngiphilile!\u00a0 I am well! But, how are the negotiations?\u00a0 Some say it is too early to tell.\u00a0 After nearly a week of negotiations, things are moving rather slowly for the decision-makers.\u00a0 The opening week in Durban has gone smoothly.\u00a0 There has been good progress with many technical decisions that needed to be made before next week.<\/p>\n

Although some things are progressing in the negotiations, it has been noted that climate skeptics in the United States have reached a peak.\u00a0 Despite the science showing temperature increases, there has been a recent rise in Americans\u2019 denial that the climate is changing.\u00a0 NOAA <\/a>indicates that seven of the eight warmest years on record have occurred since 2001.\u00a0 All ten warmest years have occurred since 1995.\u00a0 The reality of climate change is proving to be a problem domestically in the United States.\u00a0 With such \u201cbad-faith,\u201d as some like to call it, the US is considered to be an impediment in this years climate negotiations.<\/p>\n

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Jonathan Pershing Press Briefing<\/p><\/div>\n

Some had high hopes for America\u2019s role in the negotiations.\u00a0 With Hilary Clinton\u2019s $100 billion per year after 2020 and promises of contributions to the potential Green Climate Fund, expectations were high.\u00a0 The urgency is not yet there for the US.\u00a0 Climate policy, funding, and action are not high priorities, and concerns have been raised by the US regarding revisions for the proposed Green Climate Fund.\u00a0 There is still potential for a legally binding commitment agreement for 2015, so the US has not taken itself out of the negotiations just yet.<\/p>\n

Climate fund investments have proved to be a point of contention in the United States.\u00a0 It needs to be noted that initial investments in climate adaptation, mitigation, and legislation are most likely better investments than working with the repercussions of the dangerous impacts of climate change.\u00a0 Why not invest now?\u00a0 The smarter investment is to prevent the costs of disaster relief from vulnerabilities to climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maggie Rees
\nA quick Zulu lesson\u2026
\nKunjani? \u2013 How are you?
\nNgiphilile \u2013 I am well
\nIMG_0229
\nHere in Durban, ngiphilile!\u00a0 I am well! But, how are the negotiations?\u00a0 Some say it is too early to tell.\u00a0 After nearly a week of negotiations, things are moving rather slowly for the decision-makers.\u00a0 The opening week in Durban has gone smoothly.\u00a0 There has been good progress with many technical decisions that needed to be made before next week.
\nAlthough some things are progressing in the negotiations, it has been noted that climate skeptics in the United States have reached a peak.\u00a0 Despite the science showing temperature increases, there has been a recent rise in Americans\u2019 denial that the climate is changing.\u00a0 NOAA indicates that seven of the eight warmest years on record have occurred since 2001.\u00a0 All ten warmest years have occurred since 1995.\u00a0 The reality of climate change is proving to be a problem domestically in the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19448],"tags":[34192,25703],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change-2","tag-cop17","tag-maggie-rees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}