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Saleemul Huq & Camilla Toulmin
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Saleemul Huq & Camilla Toulmin, IIED
Bali's routemap to Copenhagen
The "spin&
Europe's Bali Leadership The success of a subtle strategy. AWGmented unilateral commitments. The Deal itself.
The European Union had the last word at Bali and that was probably fitting. They made many concessions and looked at times as if they could be bossed by both
With Bali's biggest decision now made, the media pack has rushed off to file stories, source reaction, or get drunk on the beach. But the action here in
A rolling post, updating the tortuous path towards a Bali agreement. Update 1: a tentative agreement that will be debated further, 8am tomorrow morning. Update 2 (the next morning): the
A sobering review of progress from the G77 and China, whose Chairman just complained bitterly about the pressure developing countries were coming under to make concessions.
Unspecified countries - probably
Negotiators are hitting the pain barrier here in Bali, as they press on in search of an agreement after catching only a few hours' sleep last night.
But the
Last night, we reported on the bombshell proposal from US negotiators to give all countries targets, based on their levels of economic development.
Talks broke up acrimoniously at 3.30,
A late night update from the UN climate conference, where the US has thrown a hand grenade into the talks on the Bali roadmap.
It's close to 1am
"My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali," Al Gore told Bali this evening, to ecstatic applause, putting the blame for
There is growing evidence that the EU has threatened to boycott the US major economies process on climate change, "unless there is a substantive outcome" from Bali.
Bali
Some of the sticking points here in Bali are incredibly trivial and technical.
There's been a collapse on capacity building, for example, where the US has blocked progress
