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Conference of the Parties (COP) 14
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COP14 UN Climate Change Conference
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP14) took place in Poznan, Poland from 1st - 12th December 2008. Find out about IIED's activities at this COP
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Just the beginning
Yvo de Boer, who runs the UNFCCC secretariat, laid out clearly where we are with agreement on the text in his inimitable laconic style: ‘We are near to the end of putting things in and near to the beginning of taking things out.’
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Thank you for the days...
Amid the debates swirling round this conference with cyclonic intensity is one very big question: how can the world’s most vulnerable countries adapt to climate change with such a serious shortfall in targeted funding? Oxfam estimates the task as demanding US$50 billion a year — some US$49 billion more than what’s actually available.
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Ideas matter but time is short
Under a bright blue sky, we spent the day perched on lecture hall benches in Poznan’s University. A one-day immersion on everything you need to know and more about forests and climate change.
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In the belly of the articulated beast
So far, the Poznan COP is panning out nicely for memory stick collectors.
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First impressions
Long before dawn broke over London, I took an early train out to the airport and flight to Poznań. Chill mist was still rising off the fields as we landed, and temperatures below freezing...
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Knowing your team mates
You wouldn’t expect a football team that had never practiced together to play particularly well, would you?
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Exchanging experiences
How does IIED engage with, and learn from, participants at major conferences? Vanessa McLeod-Kourie explains
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Welcome to Poznan
if you can get here….. We have all looked forward to this year’s UNFCCC event and hopeful of productive outcomes especially our friends and colleagues from developing countries.
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Fingers up for Climate Action
I saw two people arguing today about whether biofuels could help save humanity from itself in a carbon-constrained world. Of course, they were both right, both wrong but neither knew it.
