Content about: UNFCCC

The Challenge of Standardization in the Future Climate Policy

Corrado Clini and Francesco Presicce

New approaches to enhance mitigation action are currently being discussed in the context of the UNFCCC, in order to set the stage for the future of the Kyoto Protocol and for a larger involvement of all countries in emissions reduction policies. One of the issue under discussion is the implementation of existing mechanism, such as CDM. But the challenge is in setting up methodologies applicable to multiple projects, regardless of specific conditions. Corrado Clini, Director General of the Ministry of the Environment and Territory and Sea Protection of Italy, and Francesco Presicce, expert in sustainability, climate negotiation and energy, argue why it could be done in the perspective of the future UNFCC discussions.

published September 9th, 2011
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A Low Carbon Economy for India

P.R. Shukla

Transforming the energy system, improving economy and reducing carbon emissions. These are the milestones of the Indian climate challenge. “We are working to become a more modern country and to build an economy where emissions would be significantly lower”, Prof. Shukla says. The solution requires a large portfolio of energy options and a different perception of the problem: “The conventional perception – Prof. Shukla explains – looks at energy related technologies and innovations from the supply side. Now, we are also looking for solutions that are coming from the demand side”. On the path toward a sustainable development, is the 2 degrees target achievable?

published April 8th, 2010
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A roadmap for post-Copenhagen years

Stephane Hallegatte

The Cop 15 is a bitter disappointment for European countries. While environment is one of the domains in which EU integration is deepest, European countries failed to build and support a common position that would have weighed on the outcome of the conference.
But the EU could try to make the Copenhagen Accord more ambitious and credible. How? Forgetting Kyoto – Stéphane Hallegatte suggests – recognizing that it is an important progress to have included the United States and China in a unique agreement and answering to four questions

published February 3rd, 2010
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The Road from Bali to Copenhagen. It’s Not Over Until It’s Over

Sara Venturini

It seems to be the most-anticipated international conference on climate change of the last decades and it is finally taking place after a long countdown.
The fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is bringing together officials and ministers from 192 countries who, under the eyes of some 5.000 representatives of the world media, are asked to achieve what Kyoto failed to and design an ambitious and effective international climate change deal to follow on 2012

published December 6th, 2009
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