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Account of the Tianjin Climate Talks

By on October 16, 2010 in China, Climate

Coming away from this past week of negotiations at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Tianjin, the sense is certainly that time is not on our side. While delegates from more than 150 countries were charged the task of whittling down options on the table to prepare for heads of state and ministers in Cancun, the talks concluded with dishearteningly little progress, a widening divide between developed and developing countries, and resurfacing tensions between the U.S. and China on climate change.

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Of Pigs and Mirrors – The breakdown of the US-China dialogue in Tianjin

By on October 13, 2010 in China, Climate, UNFCCC

The UNFCCC intersessional talks in Tianjin concluded with somewhat disheartening headlines of little progress, a widening divide between developed and developing countries and credibility slowly seeping from the multilateral process. One theme that dominated media in the waning days of the negotiations, however, centred on friction between the United States and China, whose differences led to the Chinese lead negotiator calling the US a “pig preening itself in a mirror”.

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Tweeting from Tianjin, courtesy of the NY Times

By on October 11, 2010 in China, Climate, UNFCCC

Angel Hsu scaled the Great Firewall of China to report on U.S. Deputy Climate Envoy Jonathan Pershing’s dim sum outing.

“Went to have dinner at Ding Tai Fung in #Tianjin. Guess who was there? US lead negotiator Jonathan Pershing. Can’t get away from that guy!” Hsu, who tweets by the handle @ecoangelhsu, told her 352 followers.

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Updates from Tianjin: Progress on the GreenGen IGCC project

Updates from Tianjin: Progress on the GreenGen IGCC project

By on October 8, 2010 in China, Climate, UNFCCC

Having the intercessional UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in China this week – the last stop before ministers and heads of state meet in Cancun for the sixteenth Conference of Parties (COP-16) – provides a timely opportunity for participants to witness firsthand elements of China’s clean energy and climate policies in action.

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Live-blogging from the Tianjin Climate Talks: Oct. 4-9

Live-blogging from the Tianjin Climate Talks: Oct. 4-9

By on October 4, 2010 in Climate, Policy, UNFCCC

I’m blogging live from the Tianjin intersessional meetings of the United Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the last stop on the way to the big Conference of Parties (COP-16) meeting in Cancun, Mexico this November.

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