COP16-Week One Wrap Up

by Matt Jokajtys, Student Guest Blogger currently at UNFCCC-Cancun Week one has seen plenty of hard work on behalf of the negotiators, but there is still a lot of space between many countries’ positions on a wide variety of issues. Most of the meetings I’ve covered...

Reflections on the First Day at Cancun

by Matt Jokajtys, Guest Student Blogger currently at UNFCCC-Cancun It’s the first day of the 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention, and I can’t imagine a more different conference from what I experienced in Copenhagen last year. The...

Thoughts on Mitigation Negotiations at UNFCCC- Day 2

by Matt Jokajtys, Guest Student Blogger currently at UNFCCC-Cancun Last week, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon observed in a speech at Seton Hall University that “[g]one are the days when one country or bloc could take big steps, almost by fiat. Truly global action on...