Stories of Change
So we move on again. For the REDD+ partnership, the next stop was to be Nagoya, where the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will meet for its...
Stories of Change
Do we have a ‘Plan B’? With that one question, a delegate who attended the ADB and RECOFTC side event on REDD+ national strategies vocalized what...
Stories of Change
I attended my first REDD+ partnership meeting last night (Monday). I can now officially report that it is indeed as dysfunctional as I’ve heard, and...
Stories of Change
China can now add another feat to their long list of illustrious achievements – first-time host of a United Nations climate change talks. The country...
Stories of Change
Like a classic circus troupe, climate change negotiators perform a high-wire act in search of the perfect balance. Or so it seemed on Monday. One...
Stories of Change
This is the fourth time negotiators have met at official talks since Copenhagen. Only at the second of the three prior dialogues, all held in...
Stories of Change
Talks about talks about REDD are underway again. Two days before the Tianjin round officially began, the REDD+ partnership met to discuss how to pay...
Stories of Change
Next week’s Tianjin climate talks in China are the last stop before the COP train pulls in to Cancun, Mexico, for round 16. In contrast to this time...
Stories of Change
In a departure from what you might call the conditional optimism of my two earlier interviewees (see post below), the Accra Caucus on Forests and...