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The Road to Copenhagen 1: Setting the Agenda in Bonn
03/06/09 09:50
The next stage in the process leading up to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Copenhagen meeting (usually referred to as a “cop” or council or consultation of the signatory parties) began this week in Bonn, Germany. I’m not able to attend, but the process is important and I’ve been receiving almost hourly updates from colleagues there. You can see some of their progress and concerns on a video blog in order to get an idea of what being there is like. The most obvious issues are US climate mitigation policy, such as the Waxman/Markey bill (discussed in previous entries). But climate adaptation finance — the “adaptation fund” — is showing up a big second topic as well. Some background on adaptation finance was covered as well in previous entries here indirectly and here for more general issues. However, a “side event” has been planned to continue the process associated with the Nairobi Guiding Principles for freshwater adaptation and the water sector. What are those goals? And why does Bonn matter? Read More...
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Report from Kenya: The Nairobi Guiding Principles of 2009
24/04/09 12:35
So many critical
issues surround climate change adaptation (and so
much bad news keeps popping up from climate impacts
science), I sometimes find knowing where to focus
very difficult. But sometimes there is good news.
I’ve just returned from a very fast meeting in
Nairobi, Kenya, at the United Nations compound.
Under the sponsorship of the Danish government, a
new global framework and set of guiding principles
for climate adaptation has been created (available
as a PDF download). These principles are aimed
at three distinct audiences: participants in and
observers of the big UNFCCC CoP meeting in Copenhagen in
December 2009, those institutions that are
funding climate adaptation work
right
now,
and the international movement to define climate
adaptation theory, policy, and practice in
coming decades. Here, I will provide personal
reflections on my attendance on the discussions
leading up to, at, and beyond the Nairobi
meeting.
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