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New IPCC Leaders Could Improve Effectiveness of Climate Change Policy Making

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

The election of new leadership for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change opens the door to the possibility of instituting reform that would greatly benefit global efforts to address climate change, a group of researchers from prominent climate change think tanks say.

Germany Pledges $1 Billion to UN Green Climate Fund

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Germany’s is the first national GCF commitment, with Chancellor Merkel pledging the funds during the fifth Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin last week. Some 35 national ministers met in Berlin for the two-day conference, paving the way forward toward a new global climate treaty.

Latest IPCC Installment Highlights Climate Risks, Potential for Adaptation

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Andrew Burger | 2 Comments

The threats, risks and costs associated with a rapidly changing climate continue to mount, making the benefits and rewards to be gained by enacting global adaptation and mitigation policies and initiatives yet more valuable and urgent, according to the latest installment of the UN IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report.

Progress, however halting, in climate finance and other important issues is reason to not give up on the COP process

Climate Finance and Why We Cant Give Up on the UN COP Process

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Richard Matthews | 0 Comments

Despite the expectation that we will see progress on climate finance, there are a number of people who are cynical about the outcome of COP 19. Every year around this time, as we settle in for UN climate talks, an army of pundits come out and tell us why we will not see anything of great consequence from the negotiations….

Statement by UNFCCC Executive Secretary on crossing of 400 ppm CO2 Threshold

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

Press release from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Bonn, 13 May 2013): Reacting to the fact that the global concentration of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere last week passed the 400 parts per million mark, the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Christiana Figueres on Monday called for a greatly stepped-up response to climate change by…

OCN Sheds Light on Fast Start Climate Finance Commitments

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

An assessment of Japan’s commitments to UNFCCC Fast Start climate finance sheds light on international commitments and reporting shortcomings.

Climate Negotiators Stake Out Initial Positions in Run-Up to COP17 UN Treaty Talks in Durban, South Africa

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Climate change treaty negotiating teams are staking out initial positions in the run-up to the UN’s climate change talks in Durban next week. The US is setting “a high bar” at the outset, analysts say, by refusing to discuss the legal form of a binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and requesting assurances that large, fast industrializing countries would be bound by the same commitments.