Feb 28, 2017 | Climate change, Diplomacy, environment, Passage au crible (English)
By Simon Uzenat. Translation: Lea Sharkey
The 22nd CoP (Conference of the Parties) to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) was held in Marrakesh from November 7 to 19, 2016. More than 22000 participants gathered – 40% less than for the Paris Conference – with nearly 16000 governmental representatives, more than 5000 representatives of UN organisations, IGOs (Intergovernmental organisations) and NGOs (-50%), and 1200 media representatives (-66%)…
Feb 17, 2017 | Climate change, Development, environment, Passage au crible (English), Publications (English)
The COP22 was held in Marrakech from 7-18 November 2016. Its aim is to implement the principles established during COP21 into practical steps. This summit is happening against a backdrop where most of the climate change skeptics have disappeared from the scientific field…
Dec 13, 2016 | Climate change, environment, Non-state diplomacy, Passage au crible (English)
By Simon Uzenat. Translation: Lea Sharkey
On October 5, 2016, the conditions have been reunited to bring the Paris Agreement into force, as it has been ratified by at least 55 countries accounting for an estimated 55% of the total global greenhouse gas emissions. Thirty days later, on November 4, 2016, the Paris Agreement is made effective…
May 28, 2016 | Climate change, English, environment, Global Public Goods, North-South, Passage au crible (English)
By Weiting Chao. Translation: Lea Sharkey
The Paris Climate Conference (COP21) opened in Le Bourget on November 30, 2015. The conference reunited 147 State Leaders, negotiators representing 195 countries and 50 000 participants. On December 12, a global agreement replacing the Kyoto Protocol has been adopted…
Mar 28, 2016 | Climate change, English, environment, Global Public Goods, Passage au crible (English)
By Valérie Le Brenne. Translation: Lea Sharkey
From November 30 to December 11, 2015, the 21st Convention of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 21). Following intense talks, the negotiators compromised on a 40 pages agreement, aiming to restrict the global warming to 2 degrees Celsius…
Jan 26, 2016 | Climate change, English, environment, Passage au crible (English), United Nations
By Stefan C. Aykut. Translation: Cécile Fruteau
In December 2015, Paris will host the 21st Conference of the Parties to the Climate Convention (CoP21). Great expectations surround what is advertised as the global governance’s major environmental event since the conference is supposed to secure an international agreement to cope with global warming. More than twenty years of discussions since the subject had been first broached at the Conference of Rio in 1992 were necessary to enable this issue to get its own given place on the international agenda…
