Bonn climate talks
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Negotiations are all well and good, but where’s the bling bling?
With less than six months to go before Copenhagen, the global climate negotiations are at…
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Raining on the climate parade
At the Bonn climate talks, environmental groups showed their displeasure with Japan’s proposed…
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Bonn was disappointing, and Copenhagen will be too. Who to blame?
Photo: rolandFirst up, the climate talks are not going very well. After a…
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To reach a climate agreement in the near future, countries must look into the past
The second round of this year’s climate negotiations have wrapped up in Bonn, Germany, and government negotiators are digging in…
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Population: Off the radar, not off the map
“The main driving forces of future greenhouse gas trajectories will continue to be demographic change,…
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The case for carbon speed limits
If the earth was a car, it would come with an operating instructions not to drive faster than 350…
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Adaptation: Something old, something new, now some money is also due
At the climate negotiations here in Bonn, the main discussions on adaptation have come to a close after a “second…
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Short term memory won’t cut it
I don’t think that NGOs were ever terribly confident about the dedication of countries to stopping climate change, but listening…
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Transparency at the Bonn climate negotiations
You might think that the international global warming negotiations are occurring in some backroom,…