Former advisor to British Prime Minister Tony Blair says global climate talks are divorced from reality and time is running out for solution to temperature rise.
Notes from former UNFCCC Executive Secretary Michael Zammit Cuatajr’s lecture entitled: “20 years of talking: What have the global climate negotiations achieved?”
In the first of a series of articles, Luke Hughes, Campaigns Officer of the UK’s Youth Climate Coalition, reflects on Durban and charts a course for future talks.
Business needs to have courage and take unilateral steps to lower emissions, according to Harry Verhaar, head of Energy and Climate Change at Philips Lighting.
From the football to the climate change World Cup, Gulf state will become first OPEC nation to host the negotiations as it continues to raise its international profile.
Keeping you up to date with the first two days of COP17 including Jacob Zuma at the opening ceremony, the decision that Qatar will host COP18 and the Greenpeace windmill on the beach in Durban.
The opening statements from COP17 parties are just ‘regurgitated’ old positions. That was the message of the NGO’s this morning in response to the first day of the conference.
The annual COP climate talks are an easy target for critics, but RTCC’s Ed King argues they still provide the best platform for global agreement on climate change.
After five years of climate change negotiations, Hannah Ryder from the UK’s Department for International Development will watch this year’s . She tells RTCC how things have changed since her first experience of the COP and her hopes for Durban.
Responding to Climate Change will be broadcasting a daily webcast from the heart of the conference centre in Durban throughout COP17. Find out how you can get involved.
Writing exclusively for RTCC, South Africa’s Minister of International Relations Ms. Maite Nkoana Mashabane calls for a transparent and equitable climate change deal in Durban.