Last night’s meeting was probably the most frustrating, for me, so far. I watched a 90 minute discussion that was entirely taken up with debating whether or not another meeting was needed. The session in question was supposed to be about “impacts of mitigation”. I mentioned this set of talks in an earlier blog where…
No I haven’t missed a day; we actually had Sunday off! Monday night was my first late session (10:00 pm – 1:00 am) and I’m definitely starting to see a pattern in the negotiations. I had expected all sorts of subtle groupings of nations and shifting alliances depending upon the exact issue. That’s not what…
I’ve spent the last few days, as many of you will have done over half term, with my family. So I’ve missed a few days but am back in harness now. The highlight for me, on day 6, was the realisation that border carbon adjustments are on the “agenda” but not on the agenda. I…
Image: OxfordClimatePolicy.org Why is climate negotiation so difficult? This thought passed through my head repeatedly, today, as I contemplated the efforts of 250 diplomats to agree common time frames for NDCs. Let me explain what (I think) that means and then I’ll come back to my puzzlement over how hard it is. The UK’s Nationally…
The learning curve for COP26-processes is as steep and technically tricky as the North Ridge of Everest. I’m currently getting my head around the draft provisional agenda item 4b of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation whilst looking forward with barely suppressed excitement for the 4th meeting of the Katowice Committee of Experts—I wonder what they’re…
It’s been almost a month of no sleeping, helping human rights defenders, and hearing the citizens screaming for help. Every night keeps getting worse. Right now the situation is very difficult, the president is not allowing the international commission for human rights to enter the country, and keeps denying the human right violation committed by…
The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) think tank has reported on the conclusions of the Citizen’s Juries set up by the IPPR to discuss climate change policy, which took place in the Tees Valley, S Wales, Thurrock and Aberdeen. The take home message was that the cost of climate change must not fall on…
CCL UK welcomes the government’s new commitment to cut carbon emissions to 78% of the 1990 level by 2035. It is also very good to see that the government is committed to tackling emissions from international aviation and shipping. The Committee on Climate Change’s 6th Carbon Budget, published late last year, stated that this level…
Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada breathed a sigh of relief when the Supreme Court upheld the lawfulness of a carbon fee and dividend pricing, which was instated January 2019. On 25th March 2021, in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the federal government has the right to impose minimum carbon-pricing standards on…
Ever wanted to have a better idea of what the effect of carbon fee and dividend would be on your household bills and how this would change over the years as the carbon-price goes up but emissions go down? Well we’ve just added a Carbon Income Calculator to our new-look website so that you can…
