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Students in MIT ESD.S30 blogging about climate change and COP-21
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International shipping and aviation remain the elephants in the room at COP21
The Paris agreement of Dec 12, 2015 will most likely go down in history as a major tipping point in the fight against climate change. It is…
Patricia Levi
Dec 14, 2015
COP21 Reflection: energy efficiency at COP21
In my initial observations of COP21 discussions on Twitter, blogs, and news feeds, energy efficiency seemed to get brushed under the rug…
Danielle L Wilson
Dec 14, 2015
COP21 Mini Reflection: celebrity faces and voices important for sparking discussion on climate…
How do you get the general public to care about climate change? Scientists, policy wonks, and other climate experts alike seem to believe…
Danielle L Wilson
Dec 12, 2015
At the end of COP 21: Looking at the scoreboard, looking forward
At the end of COP 21: Looking at the scoreboard, looking forward
According to the Climate Interactive Scoreboard, the proposed action in the December 12, 2015 draft of the climate agreement would result…
Samantha Houston
Dec 12, 2015
Draft Agreement Gives Hope for Future
When I woke up this morning, I was pleasantly surprised to find out a draft agreement had been released in Paris. As I am writing, Parties…
Abigail Regitsky
Dec 12, 2015
“Indaba Solutions to Climate Change”: Reflections on the Plenary of December 7th, 2015
“Indaba Solutions to Climate Change”: Reflections on the Plenary of December 7th, 2015
People may feel curious about how COP21 is organized in order to facilitate the negotiations of over 190 countries. One important method is…
Tao Feng
Dec 12, 2015
“Not Totally Happy”
“Not Totally Happy”
I woke up this morning hoping to sit down to read (and write about) a new global climate change deal… but there still isn’t one. The deal…
J.R. Norman
Dec 12, 2015
What a bracket!
What a bracket!
As negotiators pulled their third consecutive sleepless night in Paris, those of us watching remotely—and indeed members of civil society…
Paul Natsuo Kishimoto
Dec 12, 2015
Seeing as I spent most of my watch slot feeling intense secondhand embarrassment for a man who…
Seeing as I spent most of my watch slot feeling intense secondhand embarrassment for a man who…
On December 9, members of the CCAC met during the Paris COP21 talks to agree on a goal to accelerate reductions of SLCPs over the next five…
Catherine Wilka
Dec 12, 2015
Reflections in the 11th Hour of COP21
I’ve been delaying writing this “Negotiations Update” for a few days, since it seems every time the Comité de Paris meets we come…
Daniel Rothenberg
Dec 11, 2015
Lost and damaged in translation
Lost and damaged in translation
Activists will converge tomorrow on the grave of the unknown soldier in Paris to commemorate past and future victims of climate change…
Daniel Gallagher
Dec 11, 2015
Amid disagreements, climate finance remains a key ingredient for success
Currently climate finance remains one of the key unresolved issues in the draft text (as of 12/11/15). Developing countries are demanding…
Elise Harrington
Dec 11, 2015
Climate goals and negotiations
Going into the final hours of COP21 in Paris, the feeling on the floor, filtered through twitter, reminds the end of a long road trip. It…
charles.gertler
Dec 11, 2015
Big Data, Big Stakes: a Stocktake of COP21
The MIT ESD.S30 class has been hard at work sifting through massive amounts of information from Twitter, live streams, news articles, and…
Katie Mulvaney
Dec 11, 2015
The profound under-representation of women at COP21 — and the striking implications
The profound under-representation of women at COP21 — and the striking implications
On Tuesday morning, I was thrilled to wake up long before the sun rose so I could listen to the happenings in Paris live. I decided to tune…
Emily Shorin
Dec 10, 2015
Money Troubles: Mechanisms on Financing Continue to be Contentious
With COP21 running into its penultimate day, proceedings are moving at a fast pace. The plenary 1 session today afternoon involved…
Arun Singh
Dec 10, 2015
Reflections on COP 21, or Why I’m Cautiously Optimistic
Reflections on COP 21, or Why I’m Cautiously Optimistic
Although the Paris Climate Change Conference ends tomorrow, I’m cautiously hopeful for a positive outcome in the form of a binding…
Seamus J. Bann
Dec 10, 2015
Negotiations update : Dec 10th
Negotiations update : Dec 10th
As of this Thursday morning, the negotiations in Paris seem to be moving at a faster pace. On Wednesday, December 9th, a new draft text was…
Guillaume Chossière
Dec 10, 2015
Degrees of binding; and bound by degrees
In the public debate around the UNFCCC’s COP21/CMP11 in Paris, the words “legally binding” are spoken often, yet not always well…
Paul Natsuo Kishimoto
Dec 9, 2015
Engulfed in flames, Indonesia must curb deforestation to limit its emissions
Engulfed in flames, Indonesia must curb deforestation to limit its emissions
Housing the world’s fourth largest population and being one of the top ten greenhouse gas emitters, due largely to deforestation and…
Abigail Regitsky
Dec 7, 2015
COP21 Update: Relevance of Carbon Pricing and Faith Group Contributions to Climate Change…
COP21 Update: Relevance of Carbon Pricing and Faith Group Contributions to Climate Change…
The morning session of this past Friday held two strikingly different, yet in many ways similar, sessions related to addressing climate…
Mahsa Nami
Dec 7, 2015
COP21 on Day 6: Following the Bioenergy Update Session and the Role of EU in the Negotiations
On a beautiful Saturday morning in the unusually balmy Boston weather, I grabbed my laptop and headed up to the roof-deck of my building to…
Sami Khan
Dec 7, 2015
The Growing Push for Divestment
The Growing Push for Divestment
As Billy skillfully recounted, the third day of COP21 opened with conflict, as China and the European Union clashed over the potential…
Elizabeth Berg
Dec 6, 2015
Equity, Responsibility, and Feasibility: India and Climate Change
Equity, Responsibility, and Feasibility: India and Climate Change
The congregation of leaders from over 190 countries in Paris to attempt to achieve a “legally binding and universal agreement on climate”…
Arun Singh
Dec 4, 2015
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