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Is Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies Even on the Agenda in Warsaw?
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Is Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies Even on the Agenda

Andrew Burger November 12, 2013

For all their potential promise, apparent earnestness and gravity – not to mention their possible effects and potential ramifications – it’s hard at times not to be cynical about high-level political negotiations. Such might be felt of the United Nations (UN) climate treaty negotiations which got under way this week in Warsaw, Poland. People have […]Read More

UN, Indigenous Leaders Meet to Share Knowledge, Join in Climate Change Initiatives
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UN, Indigenous Leaders Meet to Share Knowledge, Join in Climate

Andrew Burger May 8, 2012

Representatives from UN bodies have been meeting with indigenous community leaders, experts and climate scientists in a series of meeting during the last few years, the overarching aim of which is to ensure that indigenous peoples have a say in international climate negotiations and treaties, and that traditional knowledge is incorporated in a globally shared knowledge base of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, methods and tools.Read More

Lowering Expectations for UN Climate Negotiations
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Lowering Expectations for UN Climate Negotiations

Richard Matthews August 11, 2010

Conflicting positions are undermining efforts to find agreement on greenhouse gas reductions. Delegates at the recent climate talks in Bonn made no progress on binding targets to reduce carbon emissions, nor were they able to agree on a deal to replace the soon to expire Kyoto Protocol. The climate change talks began with a document called “A Shared Vision for Long-Term Cooperative […]Read More

New Report Offers Little Hope for International Climate Agreement, Suggests “New Thinking” in Climate Diplomacy
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New Report Offers Little Hope for International Climate Agreement, Suggests

Thomas Schueneman March 8, 2010

It’s the big pink elephant in the room that few others wish to acknowledge, but a central theme in a new report by former climate negotiator Nigel Purvis: An international climate change treaty isn’t likely to be signed anytime soon. Purvis served as president Clinton’s chief UN climate negotiator, and in his report released today […]Read More

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