The ineluctable etiquette of international diplomacy - Hot Topic
Gareth Renowden • Dec 15, 2010 •
Pre Cancún: Post Cancún: Hat tip to Eli for alerting me to the first image, thanks to Marc Roberts for both… … Read More
Tagged: Cancun
NZYD in Cancun: hope remains - Hot Topic
Gareth Renowden • Dec 10, 2010 •
This is a guest post from Cancun by Paul Young (bottom right in the pic – click to put names to faces) of the New Zealand Youth Delegation. It tells you a lot about the nature of the COP16 climate conference in Cancun that I’m only writing this now. Gareth approached us – the New [...] … Read More
Coates in Cancún: ministers on the job - Hot Topic
Gareth Renowden • Dec 09, 2010 •
This is Barry Coates of Oxfam NZ’s fourth report from COP16 in Cancún: now we’re getting down to the nitty gritty… Things are starting to move here in Cancun. Most of the Ministers arrived today, joining around 30 who have been around since the weekend. Some were shoulder-tapped to do consultations on key issues, including [...] … Read More
Monckton goes bananas - Hot Topic
Gareth Renowden • Dec 08, 2010 •
Scrotum is laying low it seems, so (as yet) I have no inside information on the doings of the the good Lord Monckton in Mexico beyond his own words, but they are extraordinary enough to demand a post. Monckton is in Cancun with Roy Spencer (satellite temperatures a speciality), the pair acting as emissaries for [...] … Read More
’She took me half the way there…’ - Hot Topic
Bryan Walker • Dec 06, 2010 •
Bill McKibben has come up with a striking metaphor for the US stance in climate change negotiations. In a Huffington Post article he describes it as a tease – “it shows some leg, but it never ends up in your arms.†Twice before US negotiators have persuaded the world into a watered-down agreement – the [...] … Read More
Coates in Cancún: we have no more time - Hot Topic
Gareth Renowden • Dec 06, 2010 •
Oxfam NZ’s Barry Coates continues his series of on the spot reports from Cancún: in this episode, he looks at the way international negotiations work… Negotiations have picked up pace in Cancún. But it is impossible not to feel frustrated with how long it has taken to get to this point. The problem is not [...] … Read More
We want to survive - Hot Topic
Bryan Walker • Dec 04, 2010 •
“We are facing the end of history. We don’t want to be the sacrificed countries of the 21st century. We want to survive.” These were the words of Antonio Lima, ambassador of Cape Verde to the UN, speaking at the start of the Cancún conference, where he is one of the delegates representing the 43 [...] … Read More
The Climate Show #3: Cancún and cooling - Hot Topic
Gareth Renowden • Dec 02, 2010 •
Climate talks heat up in Mexico, snow blankets Britain and much of Europe, and The Climate Show is at the heart of the action. Glenn and Gareth set the scene for COP16 in Cancún and then interview Oxfam NZ’s Barry Coates at the conference to find out how things are shaping up. Gareth explores the [...] … Read More
Coates in Cancún: the stakes are high - Hot Topic
Gareth Renowden • Dec 02, 2010 •
This is the first in a series of guest blogs from the Cancun climate conference by Oxfam NZ’s executive director Barry Coates. I’m sitting in the warm evening air of Cancun after the first day of the climate change talks. It was quite a trip getting here – I came from Timor Leste and the [...] … Read More
Can Cancún’s COP deliver? - Hot Topic
Gareth Renowden • Nov 30, 2010 •
Another year, another Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, number 16 in a series that looks set to run and run. Mexico is the host, Cancún the seaside resort where thousands of diplomats, negotiators, activists and apparatchiks are gathering to have another go at sorting out a successor [...] … Read More