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Good COP: Bad COP in Durban

A quick survey of those whose reputations slithered upwards or downwards in the cauldron of the recent Durban climate talks, otherwise known as COP17.

Published December 13, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate change, FCCC COP17

COP17 Durban UN climate talks Dec 9

There’s still no sign of agreement as the Durban climate negotiations go into overtime. Full notes on the proceedings and a summary.

Published December 9, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged FCCC COP17

COP17 Durban UN climate talks Dec 8

The Durban climate negotiations march on towards their conclusion with signs of a new alliance forming between Europe, Africa and the Small Island States.

Published December 8, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged FCCC COP17

COP17 Durban UN climate talks Dec 7

Full coverage of the scheduled penultimate day of the Durban climate negotiations.

Published December 7, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged FCCC COP17

COP17 Durban UN climate talks Dec 6

A South African Bishop has a strong message for US followers of the faith, as the Durban climate negotiations approach their endgame.

Published December 6, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged FCCC COP17

The Durban master class in media management

Dr Jonathan Pershing, US deputy special envoy on climate change, has the one of the world’s most difficult jobs, presenting US climate change policy to the media. His skills have been in evidence as much as ever at the UN climate talks in Durban.

Published December 5, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate change media, FCCC COP17, US

COP17 Durban UN climate talks Dec 5

A very busy day at the start of the second week of the Durban climate negotiations. Ministers are arriving and making their views known, led by US and China.

Published December 5, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged FCCC COP17

COP17 Durban UN climate talks Dec 3

At the halfway point of the Durban climate negotiations Alden Meyer summarises the state of play and the Indian delegation gives its first press conference,

Published December 3, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged FCCC COP17

COP17 Durban UN climate talks Dec 2

The opening week of the Durban climate negotiations closes with unresolved divisions over the timing of a new climate change agreement.

Published December 2, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged FCCC COP17

Durban Decides

While the Durban climate conference struggles to compromise on even the most trivial detail, the world’s great powers cooperate seamlessly in saving the financial system, again.

Published December 1, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate change, economic crisis, FCCC COP17

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Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with Winchester Action on the Climate Crisis, Winchester Poetry Festival, City of Winchester Trust and Hampshire Hogs CC. Still playing cricket, fives, real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things