LULUCF
AWG- KP discussions on LULUCF centered around process and continued debate on around accounting issues. Tuvalu sparked a commotion by holding up negotiations on LULUCF baselines because they claim developed countries are continuing to insert lo…
Category Archive: Carbon
Dec
08
Quick Stop on Cancun COP- December 6
Dec
08
Quick Stop on Cancun COP- December 5
LULUCF:
There were no formal meetings, but plenty of closed talks among facilitators to try and deliver a comprehensible text for Monday’s deliberations, which are aimed at passing a clean text on to the ministerial meeting.
REDD+
Observers continu…
Dec
07
On Tap at the 2010 ACES Conference
A Community of Ecosystem Services (ACES) opened its meeting in Phoenix today (December 7) and the first two panels were indicative of the broad interdisciplinary composition of the audience (government, NGOs, private sector business, consulting firms a…
Dec
06
Quick Stop on Cancun Cop- December 4
Even on a sunny Saturday, negotiation continued on full steam at the Moon Palace. The down low below:
LULUCF
LULUCF co-facilitators Marcelo Rocha (Brazil) and Peter Iverson (Denmark) spent the week overseeing informal, closed talks with parties and …
Dec
04
Dec
03
Quick Stop on Cancun COP- December 2
LULUCF
A new LULUCF negotiating text is expected on Friday, and everyone is curious to see how the issue of baselines is being dealt with. Specifically, countries like Australia, which have experienced sustained drought and thus face higher emissions,…
Dec
02
Quick Stop on Cancun COP
Setting the Stage
Here in Cancun, the Ecosystem Marketplace team is on the trail of forest carbon finance. In particular, we’re keeping tabs on four streams in the negotiations:
LULUCF: Key issues for Land Use Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) …
Oct
12
Is Papua New Guinea too Risky for the Carbon Market?
On Monday, an article attributed to the Australian Associated Press (AAP) reported that Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare has officially denounced voluntary carbon schemes as being too risky. The article – widely replicated in blogs and n…