Anne-Sophie Tabau, Leonardo Massai, Tomás Carbonell, Kevin Gallagher

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 5 (2011), Issue 2, Page 287 - 294

The sixteenth session of the AWG-KP (AWG-KP 16) and the fourteenth session of the AWG-LCA (AWG-LCA 14), as well as three workshops pursuant to the Cancún Agreements, took place from 3 to 8 April 2011 in Bangkok. The first workshop aimed at clarifying the assumptions and conditions related to the attainment of quantified economywide emission reduction targets by developed country parties.1 It included issues such as the use of carbon credits from market-based mechanisms and land use, land-use change and forestry activities (LULUCF), as well as options to increase the level of ambition.

Anne-Sophie Tabau, Leonardo Massai, Kyle Danish, Tomás Carbonell

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 5 (2011), Issue 1, Page 113 - 123

One year after the resounding shortcomings of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, expectations for the Cancún Climate Change Conference, which took place from 29 November to 11 December 2011, were modest. The purpose of this meeting was mainly to restore confidence in the United Nation process as well as between Parties and to agree on a “balanced package of outcomes”.

Matthieu Wemaëre, Leonardo Massai

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 4 (2010), Issue 1, Page 10

d at the Paris and Brussels Bar Associations, Research Associate at the Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI) State of Play of the International Climate Negotiations: What Are the Results of the Copenhagen Conference? 1. The Copenhagen Conference The Copenhagen Conference (COP15 and COP/ MOP5, 7 to 18 December 2009, Denmark) was expected to mark a culmination of international climate negotiations after two years of intense discussions launched at the Bali Conference (December 2007), along two

Lisa Zelljadt, Leonardo Massai, Megan Ceronsky

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 4 (2010), Issue 3, Page 298 - 303

As this issue went to press, negotiators were wrapping up the last round of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations before the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC and the 6th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (MOP) in Cancun: the 14th Session of the Convention’s Ad Hoc Working Group on the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) and the 12th Session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) in Tianjin, China. After a similar round of talks in August in Bonn, progress at the Tianjin meeting toward a set of options for decisions to be taken by high-level negotiators in Cancun looked doubtful.

Francesco Sindico, Leonardo Massai, Megan Ceronsky

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 4 (2010), Issue 2, Page 5

ngdom The first important meetings in 2010 after the painstaking two weeks of negotiations in Copenhagen were scheduled from 9 to 11 April in Bonn. The 11th session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP 11) and the ninth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Longterm Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWGLCA 9) took place simultaneously during that period. The AWG-KP decided to focus its work on the scale of emission reductions to be achieved by Annex I Part

Matthieu Wemaëre, Leonardo Massai, Megan Ceronsky

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 3 (2009), Issue 4, Page 11

ris and Brussels Bar Associations, Research Associate at the Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI) State of Play of International Climate Negotiations: On the Road to Copenhagen 1. The Starting Point: The Bali Conference Two years ago, the Bali Roadmap was adopted at the Bali Conference (COP13, COP/MOP3) in order to launch a comprehensive process towards the adoption of a post 2012 international climate regime, with two negotiation tracks, one under the UNFCCC and one under the Kyoto Protocol. One

Camilla Bausch, Michael Mehling, Leonardo Massai, Andrea Hudson Campbell

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 2 (2008), Issue 1, Page 11

logic – Institute for International and European Environmental Policy, Berlin/Washington, D.C. More than any previous year, 2007 saw momentum build for concerted international action on climate change. With a lively public debate and several highprofile events, global warming enjoyed unprecedented media attention and also a prominent place on the political agenda as the year came to an end. Against this backdrop, more than 10,000 participants convened in Bali, Indonesia, from 3 to 15 December 2007 for the 13th Conference of Parties to

Francesco Sindico, Leonardo Massai, Andrea Hudson Campbell, Van Ness Feldman, Kaitlin Gregg

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 2 (2008), Issue 3, Page 5

ngdom Past months have been relatively quiet for international negotiators, the main event being the Accra Climate Change talks. This allows us to give an overview of climate change related activity also in other international fora. 1. United Nations The two-track international climate negotiation process has been brought forward in Accra, Ghana, from August 21 to 27 2008.1 The third meeting of the Ad-Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) took place in parallel to the sixth meeting of the Ad-Hoc Working Group

Michael Mehling, Leonardo Massai

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 1 (2007), Issue 1, Page 8

ervers of past and current negotiations on international climate policy are likely to agree that the European Union1 has been a consistent advocate of stringent mitigation commitments, often calling for more ambitious climate efforts against strong resistance in several industrialised and developing countries. Going by its own statements, Europe has increasingly assumed the role of a climate leader, and is consciously fostering this perception both towards its Member States and in its relations with third states.2 Such leadership can manifest i

Francesco Sindico, Leonardo Massai, Michael Mehling

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 1 (2007), Issue 2, Page 8

, Guildford In past months, climate change has been debated at the United Nations (UN) headquarters on several occasions. The first occasion was at the Security Council, where a ministerial-level open debate on the relationship between energy, security and climate change was held in April.1 Following that debate, climate change was then brought up before the General Assembly from 31 July to 2 August in the Informal Thematic Debate on Climate Change as a Global Challenge.2 Broad and important issues, such as the linkage between climate and