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ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: THE NEW G77 AND CHINA DYNAMICS IN CLIMATE TALKS. By Antto Vihma (Finnish Institute of International Affairs, May 2010). The International Politics of Natural Resources and the Environment Research Programme at The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (UPI-FIIA) have released a briefing paper discussing the divergence within the G77 coalition on climate change politics. It goes on to discuss the North-South divide, and elaborates upon China’s relationship with the G77. It also mentions China’s role in influencing the climate position of the other BASIC bloc countries - Brazil, India, and South Africa. This paper uses the Copenhagen Summit, and subsequent Accord, as the context for this discussion.
FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE AFTER COPENHAGEN: AN ASIA-PACIFIC PERSPECTIVE. Food and Agriculture Organization for the United Nations (FAO) and RECOFTC - The Centre for People and Forests, May 2010. This report presents the results of a joint meeting in Bali, hosted by FAO and RECOFTC, of twelve regional and international experts. These experts discussed and answered questions that forest stakeholders have been asking following the UNFCCC’s COP 15 negotiations, and debated some of the key issues that foresters and forestry institutions will face in developing climate change policies and strategies. Many of the questions focus specifically on REDD, and the progress made during COP 15, along with the implications of COP 15’s inability to create a binding agreement.
HOW TO ENSURE CLIMATE CHANGE FINANCE REALLY IS “NEW AND ADDITIONAL.” By Martin J. Stadelmann, J. Timmons Roberts, and Saleemul Huq. (International Institute for Environment and Development, June 2010). This paper, which was formally launched at a side event during the UN climate-change negotiations in Bonn, calls for a UN-based system to define baselines from which to count new funds for climate change, along with monitoring pledges and payments. The authors argue that such a system is essential if developed nations wish to regain the trust of developing nations so that they can set up a global climate deal.
INTAL MONTHLY NEWSLETTER. By the Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean. The INTAL Monthly Newsletter disseminates news on events and regulations concerning the evolution of integration processes in the different regional blocs, and publishes bibliographic reviews, publications on integration on the web and the programming and description of INTAL and IDB activities regarding integration. It is a monthly publication in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese.
THE MERIT OF SECTORAL APPROACHES IN TRANSITIONING TOWARDS A GLOBAL CARBON MARKET. By Noriko Fujiwara, with contributions from Anton Georgiev and Monica Alessi. (Centre for European Policy Studies, May 2010). This new report discusses how sectoral benchmarks can be used for setting caps or free allocation, or can become a catalyst for linking carbon markets, given that these benchmarks might be the strongest link between the EU emissions trading scheme and sectoral approaches. It goes on to explain how, under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), there would be a hybrid range of agreements and mechanisms that would make sectoral approaches operational. The authors also found multiple ways to strengthen these sectoral approaches.
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