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In Bangkok meetings, can UNFCCC move past Bonn’s roadblocks?
Creative Commons: BBC World Service, 2011 Nine months on from what was billed as an ‘historic’ Durban Platform agreement, the UN climate change talks look in danger of sliding backwards again. If...
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Yvo De Boer: Climate change talks need greater clarity
Creative Commons: World Economic Forum, 2011 The former head of the UN Climate talks (UNFCCC) believes confusion over the aim of the negotiations and the meaning of last year’s Durban Platform...
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Australians hold global twitterstorm encouraging leaders to support Kyoto2
Ahead of COP18, Oxfam climate campaigners are working hard to ensure Australia keeps its promises and signs up for a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. One of their tactics? Ensuring...
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Australia signs up for second phase of Kyoto Protocol
Creative Commons: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011 Australia’s government says it is “ready to join” a second phase of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Climate Minister Greg Combet said Australia...
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Kelly Rigg: The Arab Youth Climate Movement should give us hope
Courtesy: Kelly Rigg Young people in the Middle East and North Africa have inspired many of us during the past two years, and they will do so again on Saturday. They are taking to the streets in more...
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New Zealand disappoints by refusing to re-commit to Kyoto Protocol
Creative Commons: Sarah Marchildon, 2011 New Zealand’s government said Friday that it would not sign on for a second stage of the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty, a stance that angered environmentalists...
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Bishop Theotonius Gomes: Let us be mindful of the poorest when the storms...
Courtesy: CIDSE, 2008 The eyes of the world were on New York as super-storm Sandy approached it at the end of October, leaving behind a trail of devastation along the Eastern Coasts of Central America...
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Pa Ousman Jarju: An open letter to Obama from the world’s poorest countries
Courtesy: IISD Reporting Services, 2012 Dear President Obama, As the lead negotiator for the world’s 48 Least Developed Countries(LDCs) in the United Nations climate change negotiations, I...
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Days before the UN climate talks, Qatari climate leader parties with Big Oil
Creative Commons: Moaksey, 2006 With less than two weeks before the next round of UN climate negotiations in Doha, guess who the president of those crucial climate talks was having a party with? Yes,...
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President Obama under pressure to show commitment on climate change
President Obama speaking at UN Summit on Climate Change- Creative Commons: UN Photo/Marco Castro, 2009 Barack Obama is being pressed for proof of his intent to act on climate change ahead of next...
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Climate reports forecast dire future, even with moderate action
Creative Commons: Kinumi Yoshida, 2011 In the absence of aggressive government policies aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, a number of leading organizations, including the United Nations, the...
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Kelly Rigg: It’s time for world leaders to take a walk in the woods
Courtesy: Kelly Rigg There’s a sign hanging at Muir Woods, a gorgeous redwood forest not far from San Francisco, which reads: In 1945, delegates from all over the world met in San Francisco to...
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IIED: People power is critical for tackling climate change
Doha is hot and dusty. People here drive large cars and look at me strangely when I walk from one place to another – “get back inside to the air-conditioning†they tell me. This country’s...
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CIDSE: Keeping faith in the climate talks
The buzz around the Copenhagen climate summit is a distant memory. Since December 2009, climate change has quickly moved down the priority list of many. In the midst of a deep global financial and...
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WWF: Trust will be the turning point of Doha
The UN climate change negotiations – which kick off their next round of discussion next week in Doha, Qatar – must lay the basis for a fair, ambitious and binding agreement by 2015. WWF’s head of...
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Oxfam: Climate change and the other ‘fiscal cliff’
If you tuned into coverage of the US election earlier this month, you’ll almost certainly have heard talk about an impending ‘fiscal cliff’ – a term to describe the need for new legislation to get the...
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CAN: NGO’s call for Action, Ambition, Equity at UN Climate Talks
At the opening of the biggest climate talks of the year, international experts from NGOs organized in the Climate Action Network (CAN) said the Doha negotiations presented a turning point for world...
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350: Open letter to governments and their negotiators
2012 saw the shocking melt of the Arctic, leading our greatest climatologist to declare a ‘planetary emergency,’ and it saw weather patterns wreck harvests around the world, raising food prices by 40%...
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Daily Tck: Kicking off COP18 in Doha, Qatar
It is impossible to spend any time in this city on the Persian Gulf and not be struck by the incredible growth Doha has experienced over the past decade. The country’s vast natural gas resources...
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Greenpeace: Poland must prove trustworthiness as host of 2013 climate talks
In reaction to news that Poland will host the next UNFCCC climate talks, COP 19, in 2013, Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe climate expert Jiri Jerabek made the following statement: . The prospect...
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CAN: Finance
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Creative Commons: Giampaolo Squarcina Half way through the first week of the major climate talks of the year a number of worrying fault lines have emerged which have the potential to derail the Doha...
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WRI: What does ‘ambition’ mean?
Creative Commons: Ryan Heaney, 2010 Ambition is a word often used in the context of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations. While most people think of ambition as...
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Daily Tck 11/28: All eyes on the USA at COP18
The negotiations are only getting underway today but countries are positioning for the next weeks – chief among them the United States. Sensing the palpable frustration with his country’s...
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Take Action: Global Health must be central UN climate talks
Creative Commons: DFID Health and medical organisations from around the world are calling for the protection and promotion of health to be made the one of the central priorities of global and national...
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UNFCCC: UN partners with Rockefeller Foundation to showcase women’s role in...
Creative Commons: Red Cross The Rockefeller Foundation today awarded a grant to the United Nations Climate Change secretariat to launch Momentum for Change: Women for Results, an initiative to...
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WMO: Record Arctic Sea Ice Melt and High Temperatures in 2012
Creative Commons: NASA/TckTckTck, 2012 The years 2001–2011 were all among the warmest on record, and, according to the World Meteorological Organization, the first ten months indicate that 2012 will...
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Daily Tck 11/29: Let’s talk about text. Maybe.
If it’s Thursday of the first week of a COP, it must be about “the text†– and indeed it is. In this case it is the LCA (Long Term Co-Operative Action) Chair’s text that is causing...
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Infographic: The politics of climate change
It’s nearing the end of the first week of the UN Climate Talks here in Doha. How much farther along are we? It’s hard to say, and a lot of that comes from the ingrained politics in international...
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2012 on track to be 9th hottest year on record, despite La Nina
Creative Commons: Masroor Hamid, 2012 Despite early cooling from La Nina, 2012 is on track to become one of the top 10 hottest years on record, with the U.S. experiencing extreme warmth and Arctic Sea...
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ITUC: ‘It’s time labour unions stand up for climate change’
Droughts. Floods. Disease. Declining food stocks. Poverty. Forced migration. The picture painted by UN scientists four years ago was confirmed and elaborated by a World Bank report released last...
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WWF: Poland must increase ambition to deserve CP 19 host status
The UN’s choice of Warsaw, Poland as the host city and country of the next UN climate negotiations meeting known as COP19, is unacceptable as long as Poland does not change its level of response...
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Christian Aid: Sense of urgency lacking from COP18 climate talks
Creative Commons: Adam Cohn The first thing I saw when coming into Qatar was the intense glow of gas flares, a common sight in oil-producing countries. I spotted the flames from a distance as I stared...
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USCAN: What a ‘climate reset’ should look like for Obama administration
Creative Commons: Barack Obama We want our children to live in an America that is not burdened by debt, that is not weakened by inequality, that is not threatened by the destructive power of a warming...
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Arab youth march through Doha in first climate rally in Qatari history
Creative Commons: Adopt a Negotiator, 2012 Several hundred climate activists, including members of a fledgling Arab youth movement, waved banners and called for Arab governments to take the lead in...
View ArticleWhat’s buzzing at Doha
Below is the TckTckTck social media wall, tracking what’s buzzing inside and outside the halls of the COP18 climate conference. It brings together a filtered feed of tweets, facebook posts, pins,...
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CARE: Civil Society asks for new ‘Loss & Damage’ framework
Creative Commons: Samenwerkende Hulporganisaties Over 40 international NGO’s have signed an open leader at the beginning of the high-level week at COP 18: The world’s poorest and most vulnerable...
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Daily Tck 12/03: State of play in the high level Doha Climate Talks
Ministers have begun to arrive in Doha and crunch time begins with the high level segment starting on Wednesday. There is no question that we will leave Doha still on a path to a 4 degree + world,...
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Youth activists bring energy, urgency to Doha climate talks
Creative Commons: Adopt a Negotiator, 2012 When the US university student Anjali Appadurai lambasted diplomats from 194 countries for their lack of action and ambition at last year’s climate talks in...
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Russia backslides on 25 percent emission reduction goal in Doha
A draft presidential decree seen by RIA Novosti shows that Russia might be backing away from an unconditional 25% emission reduction target announced by Prime Minister Medvedev during the Rio+20...
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Greenhouse gas emissions rose three percent in 2011: UN Report
Creative Commons: Gregory Wake, 2008 The amount of heat-trapping pollution the world spewed rose again last year by 3 percent. So scientists say it’s now unlikely that global warming can be limited...
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Health and Medical organizations sign the Doha Declaration
‘You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem’ – Gro Harlem Brundtland Health and medical organisations from around the world are calling...
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Fossil fuel subsidies in focus at Doha climate talks
Creative Commons: Shell, 2009 Hassan al-Kubaisi considers it a gift from above that drivers in oil- and gas-rich Qatar only have to pay $1 per gallon at the pump. “Thank God that our country is an oil...
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New Oil Change International campaign says Exxon hates your children
As the negotiators in Doha dawdle on towards the deadline, and the US Congress debates what to do to avoid the ‘fiscal cliff’, our partners at Oil Change International have launched a new campaign to...
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Greenpeace: Open letter to Barack Obama on U.S. obstruction to climate treaty
Dear Mr. President, My Name is Kumi Naidoo, I am the Executive Director of Greenpeace International, I also serve as President of the Global Campaign for Climate Action and serve as Global Ambassador...
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Daily Tck: Climate finance remains blocker at COP 18
It is hard (impossible) to find anyone in the halls at the Doha climate talks who believes that we are going to finalize business today. The LCA (Long Term Co-operative Action) Working Group Chair...
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Enviro groups respond to COP18: No oasis for climate in Doha desert
Creative Commons: Matthias Groote, 2012 The UN climate talks failed to deliver increased cuts to carbon pollution, nor did they provide any credible pathway to $100 billion per year in finance by 2020...
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Kelly Rigg: Finding hope in the final hours of the Doha climate talks
Courtesy: Kelly Rigg “What gives you hope? This is a question I’m often asked these days. And what I’ve come to realize is that being hopeful, in the face of so much bad news about climate change, is...
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CAN: No oasis for climate in Doha desert
The UN climate talks failed to deliver increased cuts to carbon pollution, nor did they provide any credible pathway to $100 billion per year in finance by 2020 to help the poorest countries deal with...
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UK legislators: Doha talks confirmed only domestic action can drive global...
With the Doha summit now concluded, with only very modest achievement, there is growing consensus that a faster response toclimate change is desperately needed. This is especially so when the science...
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