May 21, 2012
It is heartening indeed to learn that Bangladesh has been nominated by the least developed countries (LDCs) to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to help vulnerable countries fight climate risks. This was disclosed by Dr Hasan Mahmud, Minister for Environment and Forests at a seminar on ‘Adaptation Programme to Face Climate Risk’ held in the capital recently. It is obvious that Bangladesh’s nomination to the GCF is the recognition of its role by the climatic vulnerable countries...
May 20, 2012
Over the past two years, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests have brought together regional experts to reflect on the outcomes of the 15th and 16th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The resulting booklets Forests and Climate Change After Copenhagen: An Asia-Pacific Perspective and Forests and Climate Change After Cancun: An...
May 18, 2012
Reference Emission Levels (gross) and Reference Levels (net) requires the combination of a land use transition matrix and typical C stocks per land use type. Four ways of calculating REL for any (sub) national entity are:
- REL/RL1A: Projected emissions are based on historical emissions
- REL/RL1B: Projected emissions are based on historical emissions relative to remaining carbon pools
- REL/RL2: Future emissions are projected based on land use plans (forward-...
May 17, 2012
Governments are increasingly aware that REDD+ frameworks will need to include benefit sharing mechanisms that promote social and environmental safeguards while seeking full and effective participation of indigenous peoples and local communities (as stated in UNFCCC Decision 1/CP.16 adopted at COP16 in Cancun in December 2010). How to design and establish REDD+ frameworks and policies in countries while guaranteeing equitable benefit sharing mechanisms and adequate incentives for REDD+...
May 11, 2012
FIELD has produced this guide in response to requests for a short overview for new negotiators who do not have time to read longer guides to the UNFCCC process. The guide may be helpful for government representatives or others who attend a UNFCCC conference for the first time. It may also provide some helpful information for others.
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May 10, 2012
The future of the climate change process depends on how successful we can be in creating this “multi-tracked” approach, where firstly, action and resources would not be limited and boxed according to the usual UNFCCC approach that unfortunately has become very politicized; and secondly as they would have to be simultaneously applied.
Discussion of the details of these multiple tracks is outside the scope of this paper, however, it suffices to say that the time is ripe to...
FIELD has prepared a short guide in response to requests for a short overview for new negotiators who do not have time to read longer guides to the UNFCCC process. This new working paper “The UNFCCC after Durban: Recognizing limitations and calling for a multi-track approach to climate multilateralism and action” is prepared by Tony La Viña and colleagues.
The guide may be helpful for government representatives or others who attend a UNFCCC conference for the first...
The high-level panel on the CDM policy dialogue invites groups of CDM stakeholders to share their views on issues related to the past and future of the CDM. Based on the input received by stakeholders following a call for public input that closed in January 2012, the high-level panel on the CDM policy dialogue developed more detailed questionnaires for specific groups of stakeholders. CDM project developers and the public are now invited to respond to these questionnaires by 31 May 2012. ...
April 30, 2012
At the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the latest on-site measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography reveal that global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations reached 391.3 parts per million (ppm) in 2011, up from 388.56 ppm in 2010 and from 280 ppm from pre-industrial times.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in order to have a 90 percent chance of avoiding dangerous...
April 25, 2012
From 18-20 April 2012, more than 80 representatives from Peoples’ Movements, NGOs, academia, local authorities and concerned citizens gathered at a workshop in Ahmedabad to discuss the CDM which was agreed under the UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol. The participants submit this statement to draw attention to the several urgent and so far unaddressed concerns about the CDM.
They believe that CDM has to be put in the bigger context of the climate crisis. The economic and political...