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Pacific Writing in Earth Negotiations Bulletin
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 4:01 pm | SPREP
It’s another Climate Change meeting for Cherelle Jackson of Samoa. Cherelle has covered a number of UN Climate Change meetings over the last few years including COP 15 in Copenhagen. This year she has been asked to write for the Earth Negotiations ... More >>
Climate Change: The Power of a Label
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 3:59 pm | SPREP
It’s the ‘label’ that is throwing a spanner in one of the works at the UN climate change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico. When it comes to climate change talks, the Pacific islands come under the label – “Small Island Developing States” (SIDS). ... More >>
Cancun: Parties Debate a Proposed Negotiating Text
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 3:57 pm | SPREP
There appears to be consensus amongst negotiators here in Cancun that the text introduced by the chair of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cop-operative Action (AWG-LCA), Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe that provides additional input into the outcome. More >>
AOSIS Asks to Discuss Legal Architecture of Cancun Deal
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 3:54 pm | SPREP
At an informal session of the stocktaking plenary of the Conference of the Parties, the proposal for a legal form to a new climate change agreement, was referred to contact group for more consultation. The 43 members of the Alliance of Small Island ... More >>
Search for a Common Ground is Now in Earnest at Cancun
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 3:44 pm | SPREP
The search for a common ground is now in earnest as climate negotiators race against time to conclude a negotiating text ready for ministers and leaders later in the week. And, Mexico, as chair of the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) is exhausting ... More >>
Pacific Youth Vow Action On Climate Change
Sunday, 5 December 2010, 10:42 am | SPREP
Pacific youth delegates took a frontline role on behalf of their peers from around the world – calling on leaders to guarantee young people a safe climate change future. More >>
Fiji Calls For Better Access To Climate Change Funds
Sunday, 5 December 2010, 10:39 am | SPREP
Fiji is calling for better access to funds that will help small island states adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change. More >>
Two More Countries Withdraw From Extension To Kyoto Protocol
Sunday, 5 December 2010, 10:34 am | SPREP
Two more developed nations, Russia and Canada have declared their interest not to continue with the Kyoto Protocol, when it expires in 2012. They follow Japan’s announcement not to renew another commitment period for the Protocol. More >>
For the Pacific, the Cancún Climate Summit is about Survival
Friday, 3 December 2010, 5:05 pm | SPREP
Marcus Stephen, President of the island of Nauru, says the predicament facing the Pacific's low-lying states is shared the world over More >>
Cancun: Japan opposes extension of Kyoto Protocol
Friday, 3 December 2010, 5:01 pm | SPREP
Japan says it will oppose any extension to the Kyoto Protocol (KP), the only legally binding global agreement on climate change. And its chief negotiator here in Cancun, the vice minister for global environment affairs, Hideki Minamikawa confirmed to ... More >>
AOSIS proposals receive overwhelming support at Cancun talks
Friday, 3 December 2010, 4:59 pm | SPREP
Overwhelming support at the Cancun talks for two proposals by the Alliance of Small Islands States (AOSIS). Led by Grenada and Tuvalu, the AOSIS group was given the green light for its proposals to set up two separate contact groups to discuss a ... More >>
Kiribati shares a powerful message at Cacun
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 10:46 am | SPREP
“I would urge that if there is a next phase of the Nairobi Work Programme, the views of the most vulnerable group, SIDS and LDCs are included, representation of the different groups and geophysical aspects are given due consideration, so there ... More >>
Mixed responses to PNG’s call for voting at Cancun
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 10:39 am | SPREP
Even though voting is an available option under Article 42 of the Draft Rules of Procedure for the Conference of the Parties (COP), it has never been used in the proceedings of the COP meetings, which is now in its 16th session. “Voting in Article ... More >>
Cancun: Samoa and Solomon Islands raise questions on finance
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 10:33 am | SPREP
Hopes of accessing US$10 billion in fast track finance promised at last year’s climate change negotiations is slowly turning to despair for many vulnerable nations, whose interests were prioritised in the Copenhagen Accord. Two small island states ... More >>
Mitigating climate change, Vanuatu leading by example
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 9:41 am | SPREP
The power utility of Vanuatu (UNELCO) has set itself a goal of generating 33% of its electricity from renewable energy by 2013. Here at the 16th Conference of the Parties to the UN Climate Change Convention, Vanuatu hopes the world will agree to ... More >>
Pacific Calls for Greater Global Climate Change Commitment
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 9:39 am | SPREP
UNEP Report finds Copenhagen Accord pledges will not reach targets of 2 degrees or less. Pledges to cut emissions under the Copenhagen Accord do not add up. Formed after the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Climate Convention, in Copenhagen, ... More >>
Cancun Must Set Stage for Planet-Saving Agreement
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 9:36 am | SPREP
A group of Pacific small island developing states (Pacific SIDS), among the most vulnerable countries to climate change, challenged other nations to raise their expectations for the negotiations that began in Cancun today. Andrew Yatilman, Head of delegation ... More >>
Mexican goddess values to inspire climate change negotiators
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 9:27 am | SPREP
Reason and creativity, values of the Mayan goddess Ixchel, is what UN climate chief hopes will inspire climate negotiators to reach an ‘acceptable’ deal in Cancun in the coming 12 days. Addressing the formal opening session at the Moon Palace Tuesday, ... More >>
Climate Change Funding in the Pacific
Thursday, 18 November 2010, 9:36 am | SPREP
The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has issued a draft report on the future of funding for climate change in the Pacific region. More >>
Ford Calls For Action From The United States
Sunday, 31 October 2010, 1:21 pm | SPREP
A famous face graced the Nagoya Congress Center today, urging the world to save the environment as the 10th Meeting of the Conference to the Parties (COP10) of the Convention on Biological Diversity winds up. More >>
