Climate Finance - Update I

EU leaders agree on climate finance

News: China pushes back on adaptation finance

Rejects EU's $3 billion pledge as a paltry sum

Four texts

Proposals for the overall architecture of a Copenhagen agreement will be discussed in plenary on Saturday

CSE organises unique 'Climate Talkies' poster exhibition in Warsaw alongside CoP19

Only exhibition of its kind during the present CoP. Looks at 20 years of climate change negotiations through a cinematic prism

Jairam Ramesh Press Conference

The Environment and Forests Minister spoke to the media in Copenhagen on Friday evening

Halftime

  After two large plenary meetings, informal Ministerial meetings take over

New ADP text circulated to countries. Negotiations to continue till late into the night

Talks under the Ad hoc Working Group on Durban Platform (ADP), tasked to negotiate the global climate deal in 2015, seem to be heading nowhere.

Warsaw Climate Talks: Day 11, November 21

China reminds parties of equity being key at Durban and the mandate for a workshop on equity and equitable access to sustainable development

Copenhagen talks in limbo

  Formal negotiations appear suspended as the G77 and China announce a walkout

Copenhagen talks resumed

Talks have resumed in Copenhagen after informal consultations were held to address concerns of developing countries.

Under the microscope: Funding for NAMAs

Developing countries appear to have made a significant concession on funding for mitigation actions

Warsaw Climate Talks Day 12: November 22

A developing country delegate received message that there has been no progress on long term finance.

Controversial LCA Text

May remove distinction between developed and developing countries

Things go North

Outside, there are demonstrations; registered observers are being refused admission without much explanation; and some metro stations are said to have been shut down.

Things go North - Update I

Formal negotiations are once again on hold while discussions take place behind closed doors

CMP from Bella Centre

G77 and China make it clear that they want the leaders to consider only those drafts, which have been negotiated by parties. 

Warsaw Climate Talks into Extra Time

Bolivia and Nararu representing AOSIS, supports Fiji and G77+China.

The US makes its play

Hillary Clinton proposes a Copenhagen outcome that looks nothing like the AWG texts being negotiated by parties

From zero to agreement in nine hours?

Amidst floundering negotiations, Ministers and heads of state appear to be negotiating a draft agreement text face-to-face

A possible Copenhagen deal emerges

Equitywatch has learned that a draft Copenhagen deal, to be presented to world leaders for their consideration later this morning, will propose extending negotiations on a legally-binding agreement

US unwilling to yield an inch

President Obama delivers a profoundly (but perhaps predictably) disappointing speech in Copenhagen