Topic
Climate Change Negotiations
6 published works
Inside Energy & Environment
COP28 Day 8 Recap: Empowering Global Youth and a Look Towards Final Negotiations
By Paul Mertenskötter, Carol Browner, Jayni Hein
What You Need to Know. The UNFCCC has released a draft text of the negotiated outcome of the first Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement. The draft text currently includes…
Eye on ESG
Observations from the COP27 Halfway Point
By Tim Baines, David Carpenter, J. Paul Forrester, Luiz Gustavo Bezerra, Oliver Williams
We are half way through COP27, so (disregarding the intersessionals that will take place during 2023), the negotiations will “soon” start to focus on Dubai, the venue for next year’s…
Inside Energy & Environment
Highlights from COP 27: Water and Gender Day
Today, water and gender day, kicked off the second week of COP 27 after a rest day on Sunday. Normally technical negotiators would hand over negotiations to ministers after the…
EHS Law Insights
Two reasons to expect little progress at COP27
By Jennifer A. Smokelin, Megan Haines, Todd O. Maiden, Ben H. Patton, Peter Trimarchi, Nicolas Walker, Mary M. Balaster
We are not expecting further big climate reduction commitments from countries this year at COP27. The leaders of China and Russia (the world’s first- and fifth-largest climate polluters) are not…
The Nickel Report
COP26: What to Expect in Glasgow?
By Samuel L. Brown, Shannon S. Broome, Clare Ellis, Charles H. Knauss, F. William Brownell
The world will gather in Glasgow, Scotland, for the next round of global climate negotiations – the twenty-sixth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change…
Cov Africa
Climate Negotiation Scorecard: How did Africa Fare at the COP 21?
The outcome of the 21st Conference of Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC, which came to a close just over a week ago in Paris, was generally a positive one for…