Stories: International Cooperation on Climate & Energy

With all its complex processes and acronyms, it’s easy to forget that the international climate change negotiations are supposed to lead to changes on the ground.

The Cancun Adaptation Framework agreed during COP16 provides potential for a new action orientation to adaptation under the UNFCCC.

You can’t manage what you can’t measure. This is one reason it is important to track countries’ individual and aggregate progress in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

At the United Nations climate conference (COP17) in Durban, delegates will negotiate detailed decisions on measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV). In another post, we review the…

This post was written with Angel Hsu and originally appeared on Chin

The world must brace for more extreme weather.

From November 28 to December 9, negotiators will gather in Durban, South Africa, for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP17 meeting.

The thousands of delegates preparing to descend on Durban for COP17 should read Robert F.

The Transitional Committee (TC) for the design of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) will con