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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...