Climate Emergency CoP 25: Protests and climate summits will make politicians deliver

Climate multilateralism on shaky ground but summits help enforce accountability

Reading tea leaves

As the Copenhagen talks launch, Equitywatch looks at the early signs of where things might be headed</e

No Emerging Consensus on Climate Finance

  Eu leaders meet in Brussels to discuss fast track funding for climate change

Four texts

Proposals for the overall architecture of a Copenhagen agreement will be discussed in plenary on Saturday

Halftime

  After two large plenary meetings, informal Ministerial meetings take over

Copenhagen talks in limbo

  Formal negotiations appear suspended as the G77 and China announce a walkout

CMP from Bella Centre

G77 and China make it clear that they want the leaders to consider only those drafts, which have been negotiated by parties. 

From zero to agreement in nine hours?

Amidst floundering negotiations, Ministers and heads of state appear to be negotiating a draft agreement text face-to-face

Political declaration imminent

Non-legally binding agreement to be announced within the hour

India's agenda on the table at Durban

On the opening day of CoP17 in Durban, India managed keep the issues of equity, intellectual property rights and unilateral trade mechanisms on …

A week of non-results

A week of negotiations has passed in Cancun, but seekers of a binding deal on climate change continue to grope in the dark.

The Cancun Camouflage

Historic debt turns 'bad', politics wins over science of climate change   

CoP18, Doha: An assessment A Gateway that leads nowhere

For the past 20 years, the world has been haggling about who will cut greenhouse gas emissions and how much.

Another bold move by Tuvalu - Update I

As we await news on the status of the Kyoto Protocol plenary (see previous post), Equitywatch offers a more indepth analysis of what's going on.

Another bold move by Tuvalu - Update II

G77 negotiators explain their concerns

Copenhagen talks resumed

Talks have resumed in Copenhagen after informal consultations were held to address concerns of developing countries.

Controversial LCA Text

May remove distinction between developed and developing countries

A possible Copenhagen deal - Update II

Negotiations on a possible Copenhagen outcome text are still underway, but enthusiasm for a deal is on the wane

Political declaration - Update I

A deal just reached between the US and BASIC countries appears to undermine every principle of effective collective action on climate change

Factsheet: Who is emitting

As per World Resources Institute's Climate Analysis Indicators Tools

Book Digest: Women who saved the planet, COVID-19 vaccine route and more

Role of fisheries in alleviating malnutrition to the mining sector’s contribution to SDGs, DTE tracks new books on environment and …

New ADP text circulated to countries. Negotiations to continue till late into the night

Talks under the Ad hoc Working Group on Durban Platform (ADP), tasked to negotiate the global climate deal in 2015, seem to be heading nowhere.

The US makes its play

Hillary Clinton proposes a Copenhagen outcome that looks nothing like the AWG texts being negotiated by parties

US unwilling to yield an inch

President Obama delivers a profoundly (but perhaps predictably) disappointing speech in Copenhagen

CoP-9 in Milan: A Fashionable Trend for Climate Agreements

What will we see at the ninth conference of parties (CoP-9) to the UN climate change convention? Three things come to my mind. By Agus P. Sari