One of the real hot issues in Doha was how Parties would deal with the 13 billion left over pollution permits from the first Kyoto commitment period. These so called Assigned Amount Units (AAUs) are owned mostly by countries of the former Soviet bloc.
See Watch This! #4, December 2012 By Khadija Sharife, researcher with the Center for Civil Society (CCS- UKZN), South Africa When UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christina Figueres described Durban’s Bisasar methane-to-gas electricity project as one of the world’s top ten green energy projects, the Durban
See Watch This! #4, December 2012 By the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA) and the Mexican Environmental Law Center (CEMDA) The Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA) is a nonprofit environmental law organization that works across international borders to defend threatened ecosystems and
See Watch This! #4, December 2012 Agricultural carbon markets – selling out food security? By Teresa Anderson, International Advocacy Co-ordinator for the Gaia Foundation At COP18 in Doha, carbon markets continued their inexorable spread into every arena of climate work, including agriculture. With heavily
See Watch This! #4, December 2012 By Anika Schroeder, policy officer for climate change and development, Misereor MISEREOR is the German Catholic Bishops´ Organisation for Development Cooperation. Ever since its foundation in 1958 MISEREOR has strengthened the self-help capacity of farming communities consisting of
See Watch This! #4, December 2012 By Eva Filzmoser, Director Carbon Market Watch Much to our regret, countries who met at COP18 in Doha did little to address the billion tonne gap we need to close in order to keep
At COP18 in Doha, countries did little to address the billion tonne gap we need to close in order to keep us safe from catastrophic climate effects. No new mitigation pledges were made and most loopholes remain. Yet some positive decisions were made: Parties
Estimados Ministros, Estimados Delegados, Nosotros, 156 redes, organizaciones de la sociedad civil y ciudadanos preocupados de 74 países hacemos un llamado a las Partes para que incrementen de manera urgente y significativa sus compromisos de reducción de emisiones y cierren todos los vacíos legales.
Messieurs et Madames les Ministres, Chers Délégués, Nous, 156 réseaux et organisations de la société civile et citoyens concernés de 74 pays, invitons les Parties à s’engager davantage, et de façon urgente et significative, à réduire leurs émissions de gaz à effet de serre
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