CAN published annual analysis
Paris, May 5 2011 - Climate Action Network France and Coordination SUD (national coordination of French development NGOs) and have recently published their annual analysis of the climate change Conference and the climate negotiation process. In this 2011 issue, they analyse the main outcomes of the Cancun conference and the main challenges for 2011 and beyond.
> www.coordinationsud.org: "Climate Change Negotiations: Time to Fill the Ambition Deficit" (pdf)

COP16 report: Cancun can, actually
December 13, 2010 Contrary to the expectations of many, the 16th annual UN Climate Conference (COP16) held in Cancun, Mexico, concluded in the early hours of Saturday morning to the sound of loud applause. After a difficult two weeks of negotiation, countries succeeded in delivering a ‘balanced package’ of decisions. UN climate chief Christiana Figueres said the outcome marked the start of a “new era” in international climate efforts.
> www.theclimategroup.org: COP16 report: Cancun can, actually

Cancun agreement builds towards a global climate deal

Cancún, December 11 2010 - Governments in Cancun, Mexico, have chosen hope over fear and put the building blocks back in place for a global deal to combat climate change. For the first time in years, governments put aside some major differences and compromised to reach a climate agreement.
> www.greenpeace.org: Cancun agreement builds towards a global climate deal

Cancun package merely prevents collapse and leaves Kyoto protocol on life support

Cancun, 11 December 2010 – The agreement adopted at the UN climate talks in Cancun has failed to make progress on the most essential part: steep, binding emissions cuts for developed countries. Friends of the Earth International warns that this agreement provides a platform for abandoning the Kyoto Protocol, replacing it with a weak pledge and review system as a legacy of the Copenhagen Accord, that would lead to a devastating five degree Celsius warming.
> www.foei.org: Cancun package merely prevents collapse and leaves Kyoto protocol on life support

Cancun Agreement sets stage for EU to increase its climate ambitions

Brussels / Cancun, 11 December 2010 – Decisions adopted in the wee hours in Cancun today ended two weeks of nail biting and sometimes acrimonious talks where government delegates, ministers and heads of state attended the climate negotiations at the 16th Conference of Parties (COP-16) to the UNFCCC. CAN-Europe cautiously welcomes the mixed but hopeful result in this important stage of the ongoing global effort toward a new international climate treaty and now looks to the EU to increase its climate ambitions accordingly.
> www.stopwarming.eu: Cancun Agreement sets stage for EU to increase its climate ambitions
> www.climnet.org: lCancun Agreement sets stage for EU to increase its climate ambitions

Cancún success may be skin deep
Cancun, 11 December 2010 – Exhausted delegates stood to applaud their success in reaching agreement at the end of an overnight session in Cancún early on Saturday morning. They saw it as a triumph after the shambles of last year's failed talks in Copenhagen. Conference president Patricia Espinosa called it "a new era of international cooperation on climate."
> newscientist: Cancún success may be skin deep

UN climate meeting OKs Green Fund in new accord
Cancun, 11 December 2010 – A U.N. conference on Saturday adopted a modest climate deal creating a fund to help the developing world go green, though it deferred for another year the tough work of carving out deeper reductions in carbon emissions causing Earth to steadily warm.
> www.physorg.com: UN climate meeting OKs Green Fund in new accord
> www.physorg.com: Intense climate talks stretch into final hours

UN climate change talks in Cancun agree a deal

Cancún, December 11 2010 - UN talks in Cancun have reached a deal to curb climate change, including a fund to help developing countries.
Nations endorsed compromise texts drawn up by the Mexican hosts, despite objections from Bolivia.
The draft documents say deeper cuts in carbon emissions are needed, but do not establish a mechanism for achieving the pledges countries have made.
> www.bbc.co.uk: UN climate change talks in Cancun agree a deal
> ecocentric.blogs.time.com: A Compromise Deal Is Sealed on Global Warming at Cancún
> www.guardian.co.uk: The deal LIVE

UN chief warns climate talks are too slow

Cancún, December 8 2010 - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged governments to rise to the global-warming challenge, and Pacific islanders pleaded for haste in drafting a new pact to slow climate change before their homes are swallowed by the rising ocean.
> yahoo.com/afp: UN chief warns climate talks are too slow
> www.guardian.co.uk: UN chief warns climate talks are too slow

China Seeks Climate Compromise on `Disastrous' Debate to Extend Kyoto
Cancún, December 4, 2010 - China said it’s prepared to compromise in a debate between developing countries and Japan that could be “disastrous” for the outcome of United Nations climate talks in Cancun, Mexico.
China’s lead climate negotiator Su Wei said he’s prepared to drop a demand that developed countries spell out this year the level of greenhouse gas emissions cuts they would make under a second phase of the Kyoto Protocol. Instead, he’s willing to accept assurances the treaty will continue.
> www.bloomberg.com: >China Seeks Climate Compromise on `Disastrous' Debate to Extend Kyoto

WikiLeaks cables: Cancún climate talks doomed to fail, says EU president

London, December 3 2010 - The European Union's new president, Herman Van Rompuy, has predicted "disaster" at the latest crucial round of global climate change negotiations in Mexico and voiced relief that he stayed away from the Copenhagen summit a year ago.
Reporting on a meeting with Van Rompuy in December last year, just after he was the surprise choice to be the first president of the European council, a senior US diplomat described the Belgian as "animated and frustrated".
Van Rompuy said the Copenhagen climate change talks had been "an incredible disaster". Looking forward to the current negotiations in Cancún in Mexico, the European leader predicted that these would be a disaster too.
> Media buitenland / WikiLeaks cables: Cancún climate talks doomed to fail, says EU president

WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord

London, December 3 2010 - Embassy dispatches show America used spying, threats and promises of aid to get support for Copenhagen accord. Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage.
The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid is used by countries (e.g. the Netherlands) to gain political backing; how distrust, broken promises and creative accounting dog negotiations; and how the US mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the controversial "Copenhagen accord", the unofficial document that emerged from the ruins of the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009.
Negotiating a climate treaty is a high-stakes game, not just because of the danger warming poses to civilisation but also because re-engineering the global economy to a low-carbon model will see the flow of billions of dollars redirected.
> www.guardian.co.uk: WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord
> www.guardian.co.uk / US embassy cables: Netherlands links aid money to support for climate deal

Japan derails climate talks by refusing to renew Kyoto treaty
Cancún, December 2 2010 - The world's climate negotiations in Cancun were faced with deadlock at their outset yesterday after Japan insisted it would not agree to renewing the Kyoto Protocol, the current treaty under which rich countries are cutting their emissions of greenhouse gases.
Kyoto, signed in the Japanese city in 1997, runs out in its current form at the end of 2012, yet its renewal carries enormous symbolic significance for the developing countries – who see it as a sign of good faith by industrialised nations in the fight against global warming – and who are not legally bound by it, as the rich countries are.
Richer countries, led by the European Union and US, would like to replace Kyoto with a treaty that brings all the world's countries into a legally binding pact to cut carbon emissions.
> www.independent.co.uk: apan derails climate talks by refusing to renew Kyoto treaty

EU warns climate talks risk irrelevance as Cancún opens

Cancún, November 30, 2010 - The UN climate change process "risks losing momentum and relevance" if the new round of negotiations that opened in Cancún yesterday (29 November) fails to make progress towards a new climate treaty, the EU's climate action commissioner has warned.
"It is crucial for the international community to prove that Cancún can deliver progress," Connie Hedegaard told journalists yesterday in Brussels.
Otherwise some parties might start to "lose patience" with the UN negotiating format, she warned.
> www.euractiv.com: EU warns climate talks risk irrelevance as Cancún opens
> www.spiegel.de: Managing Expectations for a Climate Deal in Cancun

Climate pledges fall short, says UN

New York, November 23, 2010 - The promises countries have made to control carbon emissions will see temperatures rise by up to 4C during this century, a UN report concludes.
The report, from the UN Environment Programme (Unep), comes days before the opening of this year's climate summit.
It concludes there is a significant gap between what science says is necessary to constrain temperature rise and what governments have pledged to achieve.
But with extra political will, it says, warming could be kept much lower.
> www.reuters.com: Climate pledges fall short, says UN
> www.independent.co.uk: UN issues severe climate warning ahead of summit
> www.unep.org: The Emissions Gap Report

UN Hopes For Better Results At Cancun Climate Summit

New York, November 23, 2010 - United Nations leaders will insist on solid results from the upcoming Cancun climate summit as global warming accelerates, an event organizer with the UN said Monday.
The next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on global warming will be much worse than the last one, Robert Orr, UN secretary general for planning, told AFP.
He said that negotiators attending the Cancun summit “need to remind themselves, the longer we delay, the more we will pay both in terms of lives and in terms of money.”
> www.reuters.com: UN Hopes For Better Results At Cancun Climate Summit

China highlights climate change efforts

Tianjin (China), October 9, 2010 - As the world's biggest greenhouse gas producer, China was widely seen as an obstacle in the Copenhagen climate summit last year. But while negotiations inched forward, Beijing poured $34.6 billion into clean energy in 2009, nearly double the U.S. investment.
Now, with the Asian giant hosting meetings this week ahead of the next major climate conference in Cancun, China has seized the high ground, touting its green credentials publicly and even lecturing rich nations.
> www.physorg.com: China highlights climate change efforts
> www.physorg.com: Measurements of CO2 and CO in China's air indicate sharply improved combustion efficiency

China Digs In On Rich-Poor Climate Pact Divide

Tianjin (China), October 8 / 9, 2010 - China said on Thursday it will not bow to pressure to rethink a key climate change treaty and was preparing to cope with a "gap" in the pact after 2012 if rich nations fail to add new greenhouse gas goals in time.
Relations between the two countries have further worsened in the last 24 hours with one senior Chinese diplomat accusing the US of adopting an " outrageous" and "unacceptable" negotiating position.
The stand-off continues to centre on the US refusal to agree to more ambitious emission reduction targets and China's insistence that industrialised nations must sign up to more demanding targets if the negotiations are to move forward.
Envoys from 177 governments are holding week-long talks in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin on the shape of a successor pact to the Kyoto Protocol, the U.N.'s main weapon in the fight against climate change.
> planetark.org: China Digs In On Rich-Poor Climate Pact Divide (Oct 08)
> www.businessgreen.com: Tianjin trauma threatens to derail Cancun climate summit (Oct 08)
> www.physorg.com: Little progress seen in climate talks in China (Oct 09)

China Says Climate Talks Must Tackle Rich CO2 Cuts
Tianjin (China), October 6, 200010 - Greenhouse gas cuts vowed by rich nations remain far from enough to escape dangerous global warming, a top Chinese official said on Tuesday, urging talks over a new climate pact to confront the shortfall.
China is the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluter and its emissions are sure to keep growing.
But Su Wei, the head of the climate change office at China's National Development and Reform Commission, said wealthy countries with their much higher per-capita emissions should make space for emerging economies to grow.
> planetark.org: China Says Climate Talks Must Tackle Rich CO2 Cuts

Two months to Cancún climate summit / Large number of weather extremes as strong indication of climate change
München, September 27 2010 - Floods in central Europe, wildfires in Russia, widespread flooding in Pakistan. The number and scale of weather-related natural catastrophe losses in the first nine months of 2010 was exceptionally high.
Two months ahead of the World Climate Summit scheduled for 29 November to 10 December in Cancún, Mexico, Munich Re emphasises the probability of a link between the increasing number of weather extremes and climate change.
In the run-up to the summit, Munich Re will focus attention on this issue with a series of communications on natural catastrophes, climate change and potential solutions. Research facts and findings will be available for download in an electronic press folder at www.munichre.com.
> www.munichre.com: Two months to Cancún climate summit / Large number of weather extremes as strong indication of climate change

The Process Is Dead
London, September 20, 2010 - It’s already clear that the climate talks in December will go nowhere - so what do we do? The closer it comes, the worse it looks. The best outcome anyone now expects from December’s climate summit in Mexico is that some delegates might stay awake during the meetings. When talks fail once, as they did in Copenhagen, governments lose interest. They don’t want to be associated with failure, they don’t want to pour time and energy into a broken process. Nine years after the world trade negotiations moved to Mexico after failing in Qatar, they remain in diplomatic limbo. Nothing in the preparations for the climate talks suggests any other outcome.
> www.monbiot.com: The Process Is Dead

Islands warn rich nations’ emissions pledges fall short
Bonn, August 19 2010 - Rich nations’ emissions reductions pledges fall dramatically short of what is required to limit global warming to two degrees centigrade, a group of 43 small islands said on Tuesday at UN climate talks.
> www.malaya.com.ph: Islands warn rich nations’ emissions pledges fall short

Third Round of Climate Talks Begin in Bonn

Bonn, August 4 2010 - The third round of UN climate change negotiations this year kicked off on Monday with representatives from 178 governments meeting in Bonn, Germany. The Bonn UN Climate Change Conference (2 to 6 August) is designed to prepare the outcomes of the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancún in November and December.
> www.enn.com: Third Round of Climate Talks Begin in Bonn
> planetark.org: U.N. Climate Talks Need Quicker Pace For Global Deal
> www.iisd.ca: Reporting from Bonn

EU Climate Chief: No US, No Global Climate Deal

Brussels, May 12 2010 - The world needs a binding, fair, and ambitious climate deal, something that was not accomplished in Copenhagen at the end of last year. The stakes are even higher this year, but the U.S.'s intransigence is making the prospects for a global deal very dim. Don't take my work for it. The European Union's climate chief, Connie Hedegaard, said as much today at a speech at the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development.
> www.treehugger.com / EU Climate Chief: No US, No Global Climate Deal

'Slim' prospects for climate deal this year

London / Bonn, April 12 2010 - Prospects of finalising a new binding agreement on climate change by the end of the year are "slim", according to UN climate convention chief Yvo de Boer.
He was speaking at the first UN climate talks since the Copenhagen summit. A negotiating process was agreed, but big divisions remain between nations.
The EU vowed to step up efforts to achieve a legally binding treaty.
Analyses show pledges in Copenhagen are not likely to keep the global average temperature rise below 2C (3.6F).
> news.bbc.co.uk: 'Slim' prospects for climate deal this year
> news.bbc.co.uk: Climate change treaty 'more urgent than ever'
> www.reuters.com: Extra U.N. climate talks agreed after Copenhagen
> planetark.org: Giving Up Climate Treaty May Unblock U.N. Deal

Britain brandishes olive branch to restart global climate change talks
London, March 31 2010 - Britain brandished a diplomatic olive branch today as it tried to restart global climate change negotiations with an initiative to heal the rift between rich and poor countries following the failure of the Copenhagen summit.
Climate secretary Ed Miliband conceded considerable ground, offering to sign a new Kyoto treaty as developing countries' demand, but while also requiring that those nations enshrine their commitments to tackling global warming in international law.
> www.guardian.co.uk: Britain brandishes olive branch to restart global climate change talks

"Below" 2C Opens New Rift In U.N. Climate Battle
Oslo, March 31 2010 - A goal to limit global warming to "below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) is opening a new rift for 2010 talks on a U.N. climate treaty as developing nations say it means the rich must deepen cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
An alliance of 101 developing nations and island states says the temperature target, endorsed by major emitters since the Copenhagen summit in December, is tougher than a previous goal by industrialized nations of 2 degrees as a maximum rise.
"2.0 degrees is unacceptable," said Dessima Williams, Grenada's ambassador to the United Nations who represents the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) which wants to limit temperatures to below 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial times.
> planetark.org: "Below" 2C Opens New Rift In U.N. Climate Battle

New Report Offers Little Hope for International Climate Agreement
March 9, 2010 - It's the big pink elephant in the room that few others wish to acknowledge, but a central theme in a new report by former climate negotiator Nigel Purvis: An international climate change treaty isn't likely to be signed anytime soon.
> climate-l.org: New Report Offers Little Hope for International Climate Agreement

First round of formal UN climate change negotiations to take place in April in Bonn

Bonn, 23 February 2010 – The next round of formal UN climate change negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is scheduled to take place in April in Bonn, Germany. The meeting will be held from Friday, 9 April through Sunday, 11 April 2010 at the Hotel Maritim in Bonn, Germany.
> unfccc.int: First round of formal UN climate change negotiations to take place in April
> unfccc.int: Copenhagen Accord: Decisions adopted by COP 15 and CMP 5
> unfccc.int: Copenhagen Accord: Appendix I - Quantified economy-wide emissions targets for 2020

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