May 11, 2012
On February 15-17, the UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee (TEC) held its second meeting. On May 28-29, it will meet again. The TEC is informally called the “policy arm” of the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism, which aims to enhance climate technology development and transfer for mitigation and adaptation. Despite its importance, the TEC has not been much discussed or studied. In this blog, two followers of the UNFCCC technology negotiations give their views on how the TEC can make a...
April 16, 2012
By Mr Phillip Gwage- one of the founders of the Least Developed Countries Environmental Centre in Uganda.
High levels of poverty and low levels of development characterise Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and some African countries. The majority of the population in these countries cannot meet their basic human needs such as access to clean and safe water, adequate energy for cooking and lighting, due to a host of barriers including poor infrastructure and high costs of...
March 28, 2012
On 22 March CDKN and the Legal Response Initiative (LRI) co-hosted an event on the controversial question: what legal form should a global climate change deal take, and how much does it matter? Dan Hamza-Goodacre, CDKN’s Head of Negotiations Support...
March 26, 2012
by Kashmala Kakakhel, CDKN
Negotiators are finally shrugging off Post-Durban lethargy and gearing up for a first new round of talks of 2012. The subject is loss and damage and the city is Tokyo, Japan. The need for this meeting was suggested by Parties to the UNFCCC at CoP 17 in Durban, in December 2011.
The Parties in Durban unanimously requested the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) to continue the implementation of the loss and damage...