Briefings from the climate talks - 201016 November 2010
Our campaigners have been at all of the United Nations climate change conferences throughout 2010.
Below is a series of briefings written for the meetings setting out policies and positions on the climate talks.
Tianjin, China - October 2010
Can the EU lead?
Oct 2010 (PDF 101KB)
Can the EU be a leader again in global climate change talks? With the US unable to provide leadership on climate change at home or abroad, the world now turns to the EU to reclaim the mantle of developed-country leader of the international climate negotiations.
What role for the US?
Oct 2010 (PDF 109KB)
A question for the rest of the world: The US vision for a 'new paradigm' in climate negotiations rejects the basic elements of the current regime, so how should countries respond to its proposals?
Open letter to the US on climate change
Oct 2010
An open letter to Todd Stern the US special envoy on climate change: A challenge for the US to match China's efforts to address climate change.
Open letter to China on climate change
Oct 2010
An open letter to Mr Xie Zhenhua the climate change special representative of the Chinese Government.
Climate policies and action: A comparison between the United States and China
Oct 2010 (PDF 88KB)
China has been accused of having an "aversion to arithmetic." This table tells a different story.
Geneva - Climate finance ministerial, Sept 2010
Fair and effective climate finance
Sept 2010 (PDF 95KB)
When developed countries signed the UN Climate Convention in 1992, they recognised their responsibility for the vast majority of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. The Convention, therefore, requires them to take the lead in cutting pollution, and to provide the finance and technology needed by developing countries.
Bonn, Germany - August 2010
Bonn III - Close the credibility gap
Aug 2010 (PDF 307KB)
Developed countries' proposed cuts are unfair and risk dangerous climate change. They must increase their level of ambition and close loopholes in the Kyoto Protocol.
Bonn, Germany - June 2010
Bonn II: Wrap up
June 2010 (PDF 88KB)
Analysis of the revised Long-term Cooperative Action text and the Kyoto Protocol negotiations from the final day of the second Bonn session of climate talks in 2010.
Bonn II - What role for the US?
June 2010 (PDF 94KB)
A question for the rest of the world: The new negotiating text continues to reflect the US vision for a new paradigm in climate negotiations. This paradigm is at odds with the basic elements of the current regime. How should countries respond to its proposals?
Bonn II - A Kyoto assessment
June 2010 (PDF 126KB)
Close the Mitigation Gap: New analysis demonstrates Annex I emissions reduction pledges are dangerously inadequate.
Bonn II - An assessment
June 2010 (PDF 94KB)
A civil society analysis of the climate negotiations.
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