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Jerusalem 2011 Day 4
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Jerusalem blog - Day 4 - Monday 11 July08.00 MPs from Hadash come to the hotel to meet us this morning before the trip to Tel Aviv. We will go there to meet NGOs and they will go for an important vote on one of the many hugely discriminat...
Jerusalem 2011 Day 3
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Jerusalem blog - Day 3In our meetings today with President Abbas and with Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, they tell us of the initiative of going to the United Nations for recognition of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its...
Jerusalem 2011 Day 2
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erusalem blog Day 2In the course of our adventurous journey to Jerusalem yesterday we saw the number of activists blocked in the airport in Brussels and refused access to the planes to take them to Palestine.We also saw the huge step up in security a...
Jerusalem 2011 Day 1
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Jerusalem Blog Day 110.50As our plane was rushing along the runway + about to take off from Frankfurt airport, the pilot suddenly braked hard + the plane came to a halt (they didn't say 'brace, brace, but I did anyway)The pilot explained that he had...
Final Blog from Cancun
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The formal plenary has now been convened and the Cancun Agreement has been adopted.Bolivia has said that it opposes the deal, and that the compromise is not a step forward but a step backwards. However, the other countries are overwhelmingly in...
State of play 10.12.2010
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At the EU press conference this morning which has just finished Connie Hedegaard has stressed that the EU wants a good outcome and a balanced package including solutions to both easy and difficult questions.In answer to questions on a range of...
Cancun, Day 4
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A piece on the UNFCC website entitled "the importance of informal meetings" says: " Most people would think that conferences like COP16 happen exclusively inside plenary rooms. The truth is that most of the conversations take place during informal me...
Cancun blog 08.12.10 - day 3
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At a plenary session this morning we get a report back from the chairs of the two UNFCC working groups,In the report back from the working group on the convention on long term action (AWG/LCA), the Chair The Chair of AWG LCA reports:- a lot of progr...
Climate change demonstration, Cancún
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TUESDAY DECEMBER 7th STARTS AT 9am at Unidad Desportiva Jacinto Canek, CancunEvent: INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATION"This morning sees an international demonstration in the centre of Cancun to protest the lack of concrete results so far in the UN climate...
Day 2 in Cancún
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We will meet this morning with local NG0s in Puerto Morales a few kilometres from where we are staying and from where the negotiations are being held. They will give us presentations on local REDD+ projects (reducing emissions from deforestation and...
Cancún, Day 1
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The UN Climate talks in Cancún started later than expected for me. The flight to Cancún hit a technical problem and the hundreds of passengers, including Ministers and Prime Ministers ended up 24 hours in Gatwick instead of in Cancún.I am told by...
