Barcelona: The last stop before Copenhagen
Nature reporter Jeff Tollefson will be at the United Nations climate summit from 2-6 November 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. It is the last negotiating period before the seminal climate summit in Copenhagen...
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Barcelona climate: A rough start, tinged with hope
Jeff Tollefson; cross-posted from In the Field I arrived at the United Nations climate conference today – late, on the second day, after a red-eye flight over the Atlantic and an all-too-brief nap at...
View ArticleBarcelona climate: Afternoon updates from the Africans, EU
Jeff Tollefson; cross-posted from In the Field Following up on yesterday’s agreement, the leader of the African Group said during an afternoon press conference he is “guardedly optimistic” about the...
View ArticleBarcelona climate: Nature Geo stirs things up with deforestation analysis
Jeff Tollefson; cross-posted from In the Field This afternoon has been all about deforestation. Environmentalists are busy tracking the debate about an 10-word phrase – mysteriously deleted at the last...
View ArticleBarcelona climate: safeguarding primary forests under REDD
Jeff Tollefson; cross-posted from In the Field And now back to the case of the missing 10-word phrase, which says that any payments for reduced deforestation should include “safeguards against the...
View ArticleBarcelona climate: Big heads of state
Jeff Tollefson; cross-posted from In the Field <img alt=“barcelona.leaders.2” src=“http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/barcelona.leaders.2” width=“320” height=“240” align=“right”...
View ArticleBarcelona climate: Monitoring the (same old) debate
Jeff Tollefson; cross-posted from In the Field I’m sitting in the plenary session of the Kyoto Protocol, listening to an old debate over the baseline year used to assess emissions. The protocol is...
View ArticleBarcelona climate: Momentum builds for a “political agreement” in Copenhagen
Jeff Tollefson; cross-posted from In the Field The European Commission’s chief negotiator, Artur Runge-Metzger, acknowledged this afternoon that Europe might have to settle for a political agreement...
View ArticleCopenhagen conference: Call it a wrap
Jeff Tollefson; cross-posted from In the Field Things are winding down here in Barcelona. The latest negotiating text is out, and everybody is waiting for the final plenary session. Negotiators seem to...
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