Bonn climate talks
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What does nature have to do with climate change?
It’s sometimes easy for nature to get lost during the international climate change negotiations here in Bonn. Terms like “technology diffusion,” “financial mechanisms” and “mitigation commitments” often dominate the talks. But what does nature have to do with climate change and how does nature play into these negotiations? A group of some of the world’s […]
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Part 2: Draft Negotiating Text Proposed for Copenhagen Agreement
As I discussed in my previous post, the draft negotiating texts for the Copenhagen agreement are now out. With the release of these texts the world now begins the serious work to get an agreement in Copenhagen — marking them up and getting agreement. As in the other post, I’ll briefly discuss how the American […]
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Climate change is sexist
This is the second dispatch by Population Action International from global climate change talks in Bonn, Germany. Read the first. A Bangladeshi woman searches for drinking water after a cyclone.Photo: Abir Abdullah/OxfamOne of the under-reported issues about climate change is its dramatic affect on women. A side event I attended this afternoon, organized by the […]
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First impressions from Bonn: climate change hurts the poor
At the opening of the international climate change talks in Bonn, Germany, today, representatives from governments around the world shared their opinions on a newly released draft of a global climate treaty that will be debated and (perhaps) finalized when they meet again in Copenhagen in December. Children herd goats in drought-ridden Ethiopia, on land […]