Tribune Pak: Pakistan won the ‘Robin Hood’ award at the UN climate talks for proposing financial transaction tax (FTT) as an innovative source of financing the Green Climate Fund (GCF), on Saturday. The award was given to Pakistan by the youth constituency of the UNFCCC, known as YOUNGO. “The Green Climate Fund is very important [...]
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BBC News: As ministers begin arriving at the UN climate talks in South Africa, new science is showing the challenges they face in trying to curb global warming. Using a new methodology, a Swiss team has calculated that about three-quarters of the warming seen since 1950 is down to human influences. A second report says [...]
ICIMOD Nepal (Durban): Findings from the most comprehensive assessment to date on climate change, snow and glacier melt in Asia’s mountainous Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region—site of Mount Everest and many of the world’s tallest peaks—highlight the region’s extreme vulnerability to climate change, as rising temperatures disturb the balance of snow, ice and water, threatening millions [...]
Consider the following: In October the Berkeley Earth project released the comprehensive results of a scientific study illustrating how temperature has changed since the 1800′s. The study, backed in part by arch climate-deniers Koch Industries, was a systematic attempt to allay any doubts anyone might have that climate change is happening and is a direct [...]
Durban Post by Dr. C. S. Silori direct from United Nations Climate Change Conference at Durban 2011. “We don’t’ understand the message God has sent us…..”, this is how the mountain communities of Peru react to the recent signs of climate change they observe in their day to day life. There is enough to indicate [...]
IPS: Just a few days into the United Nations climate change negotiations, deep divides on the conference’s key issues have arisen. Serious doubts about the adoption of the Green Climate Fund have cropped up, while a second period of the Kyoto- Protocol looks more and more unlikely. A number of South American countries, the United [...]
Hindustan Times: The union cabinet on Thursday approved India’s tough stance on climate change issues despite rural development minister Jairam Ramesh cautioning against the country being seen as a “deal breaker” at the Durban climate talks. Environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan had proposed at the cabinet headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that India should not [...]
The goal of holding global warming to 2C will be missed if the world’s largest economies insist on delaying negotiations. When psychologists identified the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance – the ability to believe two contradictory things at the same time – they might have been describing the world of international climate change negotiations. Only this [...]
Soham Baba, leader of the Soham Baba Mission Foundation, says more efforts are needed to preserve nature than to destroy it. Speaking at the Inkosi Luthuli International Convention Centre, he stressed that climate change effects have drastically changed the livelihoods of the Himalayas. He vows to continue fighting on behalf of the indigenous people, saying [...]
Guardian: US environmental research centre predicts no agreement to keep climate change treaty in place beyond 2012.One of the most respected environmental research centres in the US has written off the chances that the UN climate summit in Durban will extend the life of the world’s only legal climate change treaty in any meaningful way. [...]
Durban Post: Dr. C. S. Silori* writing from Durban on Day-II & III, 29-30 November 2011 I had promised to come back, and here I am again with a short report of what happened on day 3 of the ongoing conference of the parties (COP 17) in Durban. It was a hectic day, as I [...]
Mountain Partnership: Magnitudes of people are affected directly and indirectly by changes in mountain environments, not just in high altitude villages (the so-called highlands) but also in cities and populations (lowlands) dependent on the wealth of goods and services that mountains provide. In this context, the Mountain Partnership Secretariat has organized three regional meetings in [...]
Hindustan Times: As new reports highlighted devastating impact of climate change and record increase in global warming causing carbon emissions, the divide between the developed and developing nations became apparent as global climate talks kick-started in Durban on Monday. At the onset of conferencecoined as ‘Momentum of Change’, South African President Jacob Zuma pointed out [...]
The Oxfam is taking the note through its campaign called ‘Hungry for action at the UN Climate Change Conference’. The campaigners say that when there is no food how people are going to survive on this planet, so we need to be aware of the facts and should take immediate actions towards adaptation and mitigation [...]
K N Vajpai: Writes on the expected outcomes from Durban Climate Change Conference (CoP 17)in terms of growing momentum of action and alarm bells from new researches. His discourse is about the meager role played by the leaders from most vulnerable regions like Himalayas and Andes during this important global conference. With the representation [...]
Sunita Narain of Centre for Science and Environment, talks about Climate Change and the global politics that is taking place in ongoing meetings like Durban (CoP 17). Her discourse is about the government actions, regional issues and further marginalization of the poor in developing countries of South Asia. She also talks about the actions underway [...]
Guardian: There are important lessons to be learned from other international treaties – what do they mean for Durban? A growing number of observers are downplaying expectations for the climate summit which kicked off in Durban on Monday. Persistent rumours that the major emitters will not commit to a legally binding agreement before 2020 have [...]
The next two weeks will see nearly 20,000 people descending on Durban for this year’s Climate Change negotiations. What might they achieve? Not much, if you believe some of the pessimistic assessments in the press. Are the gloomsters right? No, not necessarily. What could be achieved? Here goes… starting with the practical decisions that are [...]
Durban Post: Dr. C. S. Silori* writing from Durban on Day-I, 28 November 2011 The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 7th Session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties (CMP 7) to the Kyoto Protocol, [...]
RECOFTC Blog: On my flight to Durban, to attend the final COP before the (current period) Kyoto Protocol expires, I shared a cappuccino and a conversation with a NASA climate modeling scientist. Asked his views on how the climate change science tallies with the discussions taking place at the UNFCCC, he was blunt: “Things are [...]
The United Nations climate change talks begin their 17th iteration in the rain-soaked South African city of Durban this morning in much the same way that they have since 1995 – with a host of fine rhetoric about why the world needs to act on global warming, but virtually no agreement on how or when. [...]
UN Solution Exchange India: The main points highlighted in the article “Durban diplomacy: Nations may battle to break climate gridlock” by Piyali Mandal, Business Standard, 28th November, 2011 (Available at: http://bit.ly/t5EC9W) are given below: Countries will be discussing and deliberating in their bid to arrive at a consensus on agreement to peak and reduce global [...]
The event will be on the imperative of equity for an effective climate agreement. The event will highlight concerns regarding the Cancun agreement, which shifts the burden of transition to the South and will lead to ineffective and weak action to reduce emissions. It will discuss why the issue of equity is critical for the [...]
New York Times: With intensifying climate disasters and global economic turmoil as the backdrop, delegates from 194 nations will gather in Durban, South Africa, starting Monday to try to advance, if only incrementally, the world’s response to dangerous climate change. To those who have followed the negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate [...]
UNFCCC: Q&A with UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres: The UNFCCC and the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, November 2011 (for quotation). What is the UNFCCC? The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was established in 1992 to tackle the defining challenge of our time. The Convention has near universal membership, with 194 signatory countries [...]
Guardian: Global emissions need to start to fall within the next five years or so, and each delay makes failure costlier and harder to avoid. The will to act on climate change is out of political energy, running on empty. The problem is (relatively) distant, complex and intractable. The solution is costly, immediate, and the [...]
Occupy movement comes to Cop 17–News from UN climate convention in Durban. Inspired by the Occupy Wall St. movement, protesters calling for “climate justice” are set to gather at the opening of UN climate talks in Durban organisers say. A meeting at the ‘Speaker’s Corner’ will be called, an assembly,” Patrick Bond, a professor at the [...]
ClimaticoAnalysis: Heading into Durban and the United Nations Climate Change Conference, otherwise known as the Seventeenth Conference of Parties (COP-17), the G77 remains committed to its long-standing position of achieving a legally binding agreement. Given the ongoing stalemate between developed and developing countries, however, many media accounts say they are unlikely to achieve it anytime [...]
Reuters: Global climate talks need to focus on the growing threat from extreme weather and shift away from political squabbles that hobble progress toward a tougher pact to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, the head of the U.N. climate panel said. Negotiators from nearly 200 countries meet in Durban, South Africa, on Monday for two-week [...]
FAO will support countries during the upcoming 17th session of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17) to be held from 28 November to 9 December 2011 in Durban, South Africa to ensure that linkages between climate change and food security issues are taken into account during [...]
JARGON BUSTER HOW WILL COP 17 WORK? WHERE IS THE BULK OF THE POLITICAL ACTION AND IN WHICH NEGOTIATING GROUPS ARE DECISIONS FINALLY MADE? WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SESSIONS AND EVENTS AT A COP AND WHICH ARE OPEN TO JOURNALISTS? HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT IS HAPPENING? WHAT IS WORTH COVERING? [...]
UNFCCC COP17 Side Event 1 December 2011, 20:15-21:45 at Room “Blyde River” Jointly Organised by IGES and Tsinghua University, China The side event will show Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy and Institute for Global Environmental Strategies recent research findings on the low carbon development in China and Japan, tracking domestic activities, policies and performance towards [...]
Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi India is pleased to invite interested delegates to a side-event on Co-benefits approaches to climate change in India on Thurs, 1st December 2011, as part of the UNFCCC COP 17/ CMP 7 at Durban. Co-Benefits Based Approaches to Climate Change in India: Politics, Policies and Programmes India’s climate policy [...]
Zee News: Global climate change and its profound implication on the biological system- is much more evident than ever before – the extreme weather conditions like scorching heat, floods, droughts, storms, epidemics, extinction of species validates the fact that climate change as a phenomenon can no more be ignored – and that, it’s because of [...]
IWMI: As the negotiators, activists and journalists gather in South Africa for the UN Climate Change Conference, once again the crucial role of water in mitigation and adaptation strategies needs to be addressed. No doubt much of the discussion in Durban will focus, quite rightly, on a political solution to the thorny issue of curbing [...]
CDKN: Giant strides are needed to decarbonise the world economy, and giant strides need a giant causeway – marked out on the landscape by a global deal on emissions targets, generous finance, and a high and rising international price of carbon. But what happens if the road-builders are on strike, or working to rule, as [...]
CDKN: There is muted hope and frustration in equal measure in the lead-up to CoP-17/CMP-7 in Durban. Hope that the Durban conference will resolve the vexed question of ‘legal form’ of the Bali ‘agreed outcome’ and provide Kyoto with a new lease of life, and frustration that the politics as they are emerging may make [...]
CoP-17: The United Nations Climate Change Conference, Durban 2011, will bring together representatives of the world’s governments, international organizations and civil society. The discussions will seek to advance, in a balanced fashion, the implementation of the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol, as well as the Bali Action Plan, agreed at COP 13 in 2007, and [...]
Mountain Day On 4 Dec 2011, By ICIMOD, Nepal Mountain Day will assemble a high-level panel of global personalities, ministers, and scientists to advocate the value and critical role of mountains and share scientific evidence and examples of challenges and opportunities. The day-long programme will also include plenary presentations and discussions, working groups, and panel [...]
Meeting of Minds – International Conference on Sharing of Experiences in the Design and Implementation of Adaptation Strategies and Programmes in Asian Mountain Regions 30 Nov – 6 Dec 2011 The participants of this workshop are expected to actively engage in discussions during the meetings and to contribute by own interventions from their professional experience [...]
“Durban is increasingly being acknowledged as a global leader in the environmental field and more specifically in the area of climate protection planning. COP17-CMP7 (COP17) provides a critical opportunity for the city to demonstrate its environmental approach through the COP17-CMP 7 Greening Programme, which aims to minimise the environmental impact of the event,” says Dr [...]
IPS: CUZCO, Peru- “This year the freeze killed my crops, our small livestock died, and now I can’t even sleep because I’m worried sick thinking about how to put food on my family’s table, since I’m a widow,” said Rosaura Huatay, an indigenous farmer in Peru’s northern Andes highlands. Huatay and four other campesinas or [...]
Commodity Online: The implementation of climate smart agricultural practices will go a long in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The theme has now become the main agenda of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) scheduled to start later in November at Durban, according to carbon-investments.co.uk. The importance of the reduction of greenhouse gas [...]
Business Bhutan: As the global summit for climate talks approaches, vulnerable countries make a point to form a united voice. A group of 32 vulnerable countries, which created the Climate Change Vulnerable Forum, including Bhutan is set to meet in Dhaka, two weeks ahead of UN climate talks (the 17th Conference of Parties) in Durban, [...]
Forbs: The Last Shangri-la? A Conversation with Bhutan’s Secretary of the National Environment Commission, Dr. Ugyen Tshewang. When flying to Paro, within the Kingdom of Bhutan, one is likely to see Chomolungma (Nepal’s Mount Everest, सगरमाथा) out the left side of the Drukair jet. You might also view Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the [...]
Bhutan Observer: Bhutan will submit the Second National Communications (SNC) to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the COP17 summit in Durban, South Africa, later this year. The national communications is an obligation that all parties to UNFCCC have to fulfill. It is a national report that communicates the actions parties are [...]
Guardian: We must draw on our experience of development co-operation to ensure climate change funds are effectively used. Few would dispute the need to mobilise funds to support developing countries in dealing with the effects of climate change. At last year’s UN climate change conference (COP16) in Cancun, Mexico, world leaders agreed to a set [...]
Times of Zambia: The Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) has implored youths in Zambia to be proactive in climate change related matters as they are not spared from its devastating short and long term effects. CCZ head of programmes Abraham Chikasa said during a Youth Climate Caravan Concept Presentation in Lusaka that for a [...]
It is with immense pride that the eThekwini Municipality announces that the Seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP 17) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and CMP 7 will be held in Durban, South Africa, in December 2011. This further confirms Durban’s status as the sporting and events capital of Africa [...]
Times Live: Environmental ministers of developing countries held a two-day meeting in Durban at the weekend to prepare for the climate change Countries of the Parties 17 conference in November. The global COP17 conference is expected to provide financial and technological solutions to help developing countries grow their economies without damaging the environment. The environmental [...]
At the global level, on the issue of tackling climate change, the year 2010 started disastrously with the failure of the negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in December 2009, with the recriminations of that failure continuing well into 2010. [...]
