Climate Change Summit Paris

Saturday, December 12, 2015: Final Draft Reached

Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, said the talks were the most complicated and difficult negotiations he had ever been involved in.

“I have been attending many difficult multilateral negotiations, but by any standard, this negotiation is most complicated, most difficult, but most important for humanity,” Ban told reporters.

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Negotiators from governments around the world continue to work to iron out their differences in draft agreement text / Dec 10

Tougher 1.5C warming ambition makes it into 'clean' text. The new text says:

Hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C, recognizing that this would significantly reduce risks and impacts of climate change.

Four of the most controversial issues at the Paris climate talks

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Action beyond Paris, Remarks by John Kerry / Dec 9

Circulated draft agreement / Dec 8

Draft Agreement / Limited Distribution / Dec 5

On Saturday a working draft of the climate change accord was presented to working groups and the French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, who is serving as the president of the conference...

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Rebecca Solnit: The climate conference is tens of thousands of people from civil society, government, and industry gathered in what I’ve come to think of as the End-of-the-World’s Fair, a vast, secured suburban cluster of convention buildings with exhibits, displays, meeting rooms, conferences, and cafes. The meetings are essentially editorial meetings; the editors are the 195 nations’ negotiating teams. The text is a document proposing how we manage the fate of the world. There are line-by-line fights, battles over the terms, which result in terms being placed in brackets and in brackets inside brackets.

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Live from the Paris Conference

B -- http://www.bbc.com/news/live/science-environment-34922775

B -- http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2436912/paris-climate-summit-day-one-live-blog

C -- http://www.carbonbrief.org/interactive-the-negotiating-alliances-at-the-paris-climate-conference --- http://www.carbonbrief.org/paris-2015-tracking-country-climate-pledges

C -- http://carbon-pulse.com/12636/

C -- https://twitter.com/ciel_tweets (Legal perspectives)

C -- http://www.climatechangenews.com/2015/11/30/cop21-live-world-leaders-pledge-climate-action/

C -- https://twitter.com/cop21 (Official)

F -- http://blogs.ft.com/the-world/liveblogs/2015-11-30/

G -- http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/live/2015/nov/30/paris-climate-summit-world-leaders-meet-for-opening-day-live

G -- https://twitter.com/grist

L -- http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-pol-ca-climate-change-talks-updates-day-3-htmlstory.html

N -- http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11556208 (Associated Press, eg, over-the-wires MSM)

N -- http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/climate/2015-paris-climate-talks/type/daily-highlights

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/climate/2015-paris-climate-talks/leonardo-dicaprio-michael-bloomberg-climate-mayors

(NYT Q & A / Change Visualized / From the Archives / Diplomacy / Expert Takes / Overheard in Paris / Summit Scenes)

O -- http://priceofoil.org/2015/12/03/new-cop21-analysis-start-funding-climate-action-stop-funding-climate-chaos/

P -- http://www.politico.eu/article/cop21-paris-climate-summit-liveblog/

R -- http://live.reuters.com/Event/Conference_of_Parties_-_COP21

R -- https://www.reddit.com/r/COP21/ --- https://www.reddit.com/r/environment/

2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference / Links and discussion regarding COP21 in Paris in December 2015

S -- http://harpers.org/archive/2015/12/power-in-paris/ (Solnit via Harpers)

T -- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/paris-climate-change-conference/12024206/Paris-climate-change-conference-LIVE-world-leaders-meet-for-UN-talks.html

U -- http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2015/11/cop21-liveblog/

W -- http://www.wri.org/events/2015/11/cop21-live-blog-heads-state-speeches

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Sun Power

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:NASA_Thermonuclear_Art_The_Sun_In_Ultra_HD_4K.gif

How far can solar energy go?

Big Picture, Big Ideas ...

David Attenborough: If we could catch one five-thousandth part of the energy that the Sun sprays onto the Moon, onto this globe every day, we would supply all the energy requirements of humanity. So how inefficient are we that we can't get that much?"

Attenborough is one of the public faces at the global climate summit of an initiative dubbed the Global Apollo Programme, which seeks to make renewable energy cheaper than coal within 10 years.

The goal would be achieved by convincing governments to invest US$15 billion (€14.2 billion) a year in research and development - a patch, the programme says, on the US$100 billion spent annually on defense-related R&D.

The resulting knowledge and technology should be made freely available to all. The incentive? "Only saving the world," said Attenborough.

Making renewables cheaper than energy from coal, oil and gas was the only answer, added Attenborough. "Then the nations of the world, developed or undeveloped, would choose to use that rather than carbon-derived fuel so that the coal and oil which has caused so much trouble now will stay in the ground where it's out of trouble."

http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/special/Global_Apollo_Programme_Report.pdf

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"Informal Informals"

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/02/cop21-the-back-channel-climate-meetings-that-could-decide-the-fate-of-the-world

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The Big Picture -- Environmental Security

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"Mission Innovation/Breakthrough Energy Coalition"

http://mission-innovation.net/

http://mission-innovation.net/statement/

http://www.breakthroughenergycoalition.com/en/index.html

Via the Washington Post -- Bill Gates on climate change: 'We need to move faster than the energy sector ever has.'

"GatesNotes: On Energy and Climate Change"

The first goal of the Mission Innovation green initiative is to double the R&D (research and development) budget allocated for the renewable energy sector over the next five years.

The second goal represents a coalition of 28 leading private investors from all over the world (including here both Democrats and Republicans from the U.S.), that are committed to invest unprecedented resources needed to bring the clean technologies to the market.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/11/29/announcing-mission-innovation

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