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Durban Climate Agreement: The Morning After

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D.Raghunandan, Newsclick, Dec. 23, 2011

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Finally, after many climate summits aimed at negotiating a global compact to succeed the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, the seventeenth Conference of Parties (COP 17) at Durban has arrived at an agreement.

Climate Change: 'Durban is Just a Touchstone'

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Meena Raman, Third World Network, August 13, 2011

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As the United Nations climate change talks in Durban, famously called COP 17, approach, Newsclick speaks with Meena Raman, Third World Network, Malaysia, on where the world stands today and what to expect from Durban summit.

Cancunhagen: glass three-fourths empty

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D. Raghunandan, Newsclick, December 16, 2010

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The climate summit in Copenhagen a year ago inspired many catchy nicknames starting with “hopenhagen” to portray early expectations that it would deliver a solution to the climate crisis, and later “nopenhagen” and the famous “flopenhagen” capturing its failure.

Post Copenhagen: Learning from Mistakes?

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Newslclick Production 6 July 2010

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Failure of climate change summit in Copenhagen has been disappointing. But instead of playing blame games lessons have to be learnt for resumption of talks. In an exclusive interview with Newsclick, Martin Khor talks about mistakes occurred and way forward to take these negotiations to a positive conclusion.

Mukul Sanwal on the Climate Scenario After Copenhagen

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Newsclick Production

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Former Special Advisor to the UNFCC secretariat, Mukul Sanwal on the state of the climate change negotiations after Copenhagen.

 

Copenhagen faliure, "Cap and Fade" climategate and more

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Democracy Now, 22 December 2009

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Nation’s leading climate scientist, James Hansen, who wasn’t at the Copenhagen climate summit explains why he thinks it’s ultimately better for the planet that the talks collapsed.Also Dr. Hansen tells about his new book, Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity, and much more.

Only a Thin Sliver of Hope-in-Hagen

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Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick, December 19, 2009

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Too many leaders had gathered in Copenhagen to have it end in a complete failure. Though the accord was a face saving device for them, it does retain global warming and climate change as an agenda for all of us in the future. A complete failure might have killed all hope of a future binding agreement. Whether the political statement is only platitudes or will it in future provide any teeth in it to bite, if converted into a legal document, is the big question.
 

Leaked UN Report Shows Cuts Offered at Copenhagen Would Lead to 3C rise

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guardian.co.uk, December 18, 2009

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 With the talks entering the final 24 hours on a knife-edge, the emergence of the document seriously undermines the statements by governments that they are aiming to limit emissions to a level ensuring no more than a 2C temperature rise over the next century, and indicates that the last day of negotiations will be extremely challenging.

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