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‘Climate Spider’ at the UN Climate Conference in Doha

By on January 28, 2013 in Sights

A few of the Yale Climate and Energy Institute students who attended the COP-18 UN Climate Conference in Doha, Qatar in December, 2012 made this fun video about one of the art sculptures in the Qatar National Convention Center.

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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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DecisionMakr At Doha: Can A New Smartphone App Hold Leaders More Accountable?

By on November 27, 2012 in UNFCCC

This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post and The Metric, the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy’s blog. Expectations for the global climate negotiations taking place over the next two weeks in Doha, Qatar, are dismally low, and major political transitions in China and the United States – the world’s two largest emitters of greenhouse gases – further temper hope for any kind of game-changing proposal. So what are the more than 7,000 civil society members and 1,500 journalists(myself included) in attendance going to do to make their opinions count and to hold their governments accountable for accomplishing something in Doha?

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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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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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Propelling the Durban climate talks – China announces willingness to consider legally binding commitments post-2020

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

When China launched its first official pavilion at a UN climate conference on Sunday, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat Cristiana Figueres was there alongside China’s NDRC Vice Minister Xie Zhenhua to cut the ribbon. Swarmed by journalists in the standing-room only conference center of the China pavilion in Durban, Figueres applauded China for being a “trend-setter” in global renewable energy, resonating around the world and during the first week of climate negotiations in Durban.

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