Category archive for Policy
How to make a commercial of energy? Is it possible? Please watch
11 Jan 2010
Dear Readers, Are you annoyed by the commercials interrupting in film watching? Commercials before weather broadcast, sport news? I have sad news…nothing can be done with it. However have you been wondering what kind of products/services are difficult to advertise? What do you think about energy? Maybe it’s not a very difficult theme to promote, [...]
Fiasco of the Copenhagen agreement
17 Nov 2009
Dear Readers, As we were writing in our previous post, the future of the post-Kyoto agreement is seriously endangered. Yesterday, during an Asia-Pacific summit in Singapore, the US president Barack Obama and country leaders from China, Japan, Russia, Mexico, Australia and Indonesia agreed to delay a climate agreement to 2010 or even later. This means [...]
The signing of US law on climate change unlikely this year
25 Oct 2009
Dear Readers, According to Carol Browner, climate and energy coordinator in White House, President of the United States Barack Obama will most probably not sign the climate change law before the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen in December this year. It is because the law is unlikely to be voted within the US Senate before the [...]
UNFCCC documents to faciliate the post-Kyoto negotiations
19 Oct 2009
Dear Readers, The UNFCCC Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) published documents which are to help parties prepare to the meeting of UNFCCC in Barcelona (which is being held at the beginning of the November) and facilitate the work on new international agreement on climate [...]
Concerns rose after an informal UNFCCC meeting in Bonn in August
14 Aug 2009
Dear Readers, The weekly informal negotiations of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn (Germany) regarding the future post-Kyoto agreement ended on Friday 14th of August 2009. Taking into consideration that participants didn’t reach a considerable progress during this meeting more fears come up among experts and observers that new international agreement [...]
