«Instead, we risk significant fines for missing EU targets as well as considerable reputational damage in view
of the international climate negotiations in Paris at the end of this year» said Sorley McCaughey, head of policy and advocacy at Christian Aid.
A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse
of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.
With another round
of international climate negotiations opening this week in Warsaw, Poland, and a new poll finding Canadians wanting leadership on the issue, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative government have an opportunity to turn the tides on what has been so far a policy trend in the wrong direction.
If such monitoring system is to be accepted by the international community as a bona fide action in the
context of international climate negotiations, it must be transparent, accurate and reliable, in line with international standards and accompanied by a system of third - party verification.
But as anyone who has watched the past 15
years of international climate negotiations can attest, most countries are still reluctant to take meaningful steps to lower their production of greenhouse gases, much less address issues such as how to help developing countries protect themselves from the extreme effects of climate change.
When it was pointed out how radical it was to advocate binding caps on emissions given the history
of the international climate negotiations, Hu responded philosophically, in reference to his own experience in policy advocacy on various issues over the years:
The world's bishops have a clear message for world leaders set, in barely a month, to enter the latest and perhaps most significant round
of international climate negotiations: Get the deal done in Paris.
On Dec. 11, another round
of international climate negotiations, sponsored by the United Nations, concluded in Cancún.
Carbon Brief has been talking to a range of people attending COP23, the latest annual round
of international climate negotiations being held this year... Read More
A key question for the upcoming rounds
of the international climate negotiations, particularly when countries review their climate commitments next year, is exactly how fast would we have to cut emissions to reach these goals?
This week's meeting is the first to embody the Talanoa Dialogues, an approach led by Fiji to rethink the process
of international climate negotiations.