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As usual, things ran over, but eventually the parties meeting under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and, separately but together (kind of), under the Paris Agreement, adopted two “Decisions” by consensus, being CP.26 and CMA.3 respectively.
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As the 2021 United Nations Climate Change conference gathers momentum, our colleague, Tim Baines finds optimism beyond the platitudes.
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As the 2021 United Nations Climate Change conference enters full swing in Glasgow, our colleague, Tim Baines, assesses the mood on the ground in this post on Legal Business.
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As widely heralded, yesterday marked the start of COP 26, the latest in a seemingly endless succession of climate negations.
Let’s look back to COP 15 (2009), the first COP I attended. Back then, hundreds of pages of negotiating text (littered with square brackets illustrating undecided points and concepts) went into one end of the process. Negotiations were on a dual track, with one stream attempting to agree a second Kyoto Protocol commitment period, and another trying to agree a broader way forward which would apply to global emissions. Targets under the Kyoto Protocol covered around 25% of global emissions and did not constrain those of, for example, China and India. The US had walked away from the Protocol soon after it was agreed.Continue Reading The View From COP26