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Germany hosts Sustainable Energy High-Level Ministerial Event with China and others at Doha Climate Talks

By on December 15, 2012 in Climate, UNFCCC

This post originally appeared on ChinaFAQs.org.  Although major greenhouse-gas emitting countries were criticized at the latest round of climate negotiations in Doha for failing to show enough ambition, an event held during the second week highlighted leadership from Germany, China, Morocco, and South Africa on clean and renewable energy. Hosted by Peter Altmaier, Federal Environment [...]

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Crowdsourcing Accountability: DecisionMakr rankings Day 1&2 – Who’s on top?

By on November 28, 2012 in Climate, UNFCCC

The COP18 UN climate negotiations have kicked off without too much fanfare.  Host country Qatar is hosting its largest ever conference, with an expected 17,000 participants, including 1,500 media (although I heard only about half of these anticipated media actually got accredited).  So far, expectations are quite muted for the conference, with Doha meant to be mainly [...]

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What to expect from China in Doha

By on November 25, 2012 in China, Climate, UNFCCC

This post originally appeared at ChinaFAQs.org. The next round of United Nations climate negotiations is gearing up to take place starting next week in Doha Qatar, where countries will look to both China and the United States to see whether domestic political events will provide any momentum for the stalling talks. However, because of the proximity [...]

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New bloc of ‘Like Minded Developing Countries’ meet in advance of Doha Climate Talks

By on October 25, 2012 in Climate, UNFCCC

The lexicon of climate change negotiations is always full of alphabet soup – the UNFCCC, GHGs, AWG-KP, AWG-LCA – the list is endless, particularly in reference to negotiation blocs, which can be as simple as G77 & China, EU-27, BASIC, BRIC, etc. etc. While negotiation blocs have traditionally been defined in terms of economic development, it [...]

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What Jeremy Lin and US-China Cooperation on Climate Change Don’t (Yet) Have in Common

By on February 25, 2012 in China, Climate

This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post.  It may not be coincidental that soon after NBA Knicks’ Jeremy Lin dazzled the nation with a seemingly infallible jump-shot, China’s vice president, heir apparent and avid basketball fan Xi Jinping made an official U.S. visit. But while Lin — a Harvard graduate raised with Chinese and [...]

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China promotes South-South Cooperation in Durban

By on January 10, 2012 in China, Climate, UNFCCC

As part of its green diplomacy strategy and move to promote a positive image in Durban, China for the first time highlighted its own development aid in the context of South-South capacity building and financial assistance with least-developed countries (LDCs) and small-island states (SIDs).

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Chinese experts discuss absolute emissions limits in Durban

By on December 6, 2011 in China, Climate, UNFCCC

The idea of a total cap on energy consumption in China, first suggested last March before the National People’s Congress has reemerged in Durban, and surprisingly there are now suggestions that China might consider some kind of a cap on carbon emissions. This has been suggested apparently as part of domestic policy rather than as a negotiating position, but details are very sketchy.

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