Pathway To Paris #20: It’s cloudy in Paris… notes from the COP21
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In this Issue #20
- SSG digest from the frontline
- An energy transformation
- Carbon pricing everywhere
- Divestment of risky assets
- Ratcheting up the ambition
- Coming to a city near you
- Two degrees too many
- To be legal or not to be?
SSG digest from the frontline
On Monday, 150 heads of states established an ambitious and hopeful tone for the negotiations. For a sense of the venue and the mood check out this short video from the UNFCCC.
The negotiations are heating up after little progress by diplomats so far. You can feel the energy levels increasing and the talk becoming more urgent and impassioned at the bargaining table: “We are not making anywhere near the progress we need to be making at this point”, said US official Daniel Reifsnyder, one of the two co-chairmen of the negotiations. Read more