I strongly believe that the commitments resulting from the Copenhagen Conference will revolve around trade. People, countries, and the world think in terms of money; people will not simply start caring about the environment overnight. Therefore, any outcome of Copenhagen must put into financial terms in order to have nations understand the full gravity of […]
In Bringing the Copenhagen Global Climate Change Negotiations to Conclusion, John Whalley and Sean Walsh declare that prospects for a satisfactory outcome from COP 15 are daunting. I might add intimidating, overwhelming, and frightening, but that’s just me. We’re talking about nearly 200 countries, representing 6.7 billion people, coming together to discuss, in two weeks, […]
Climate change negotiations are the ultimate test of international cooperation. Participating members range all across the economic spectrum, from poor, undeveloped island countries to super powers like the United States and everything in between. In some cases, literally the only thing negotiating members have in common is the fear of the consequences presented by climate […]
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The organization of countries I chose from Yasmin and Depledge is the African Group. The African Group is comprised of nations that have similar socioeconomic and climate change related problems facing them. The African Group is different from most groups in that most of its members are also a part of the LDCs (Least Developed […]
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Indigenous Peoples Organizations (IPOs) are an important constituency in international climate change negotiations today. Perhaps because as a collective group, indigenous peoples have been dominated and neglected for hundreds of years, often uprooted from their lands and treated disrespectfully. Or maybe on some level, we realize that, as a collective group, indigenous peoples around the world might hold […]
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