17th December 2014 Brasilia, Brazil
For just over two weeks, the sunny Peruvian capital welcomed thousands of delegates from over 190 countries with a challenging objective: to prepare the way for the new climate agreement to be reached in Paris next year. I was lucky enough to join these negotiations once more, as part of the UK delegation. Next year’s […]
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9th September 2014 Brasilia, Brazil
September is turning into a busy month in the international climate change calendar this year. On 23 September, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will gather world leaders in New York at a climate summit to showcase action on climate change worldwide, and demonstrate international commitment to a global climate deal in 2015. Next week, the […]
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22nd November 2013 Brasilia, Brazil
This week Ministers and other authorities joined the nineteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-19) here in Warsaw. During the High-Level Segment, opened by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban-Ki Moon, Ministers and representatives from member countries made their statements which set out their expectations for Warsaw, Lima and Paris. In his speech, the Secretary […]
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19th November 2013 Brasilia, Brazil
The nineteenth Conference of the Parties has just seen its first week in Warsaw, Poland. Since Monday (11), representatives from 195 member states, as well as civil society, business, academia, media, and the UN secretariat have been submerged in the complex web of the UN climate change negotiations. Warsaw is an important stepping stone on the road […]
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21st October 2013 Brasilia, Brazil
Part of my role is dedicated to international negotiations on climate change, and the science used to feed the policy discussions has equal importance. That said, I have spent quite a lot of time over the past fortnight going through the findings of the first volume of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, published on 27 […]
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