November 2009 – Climate Talks: Barcelona AWG
November in climate change
The calendar reads November, but attention is focused on December 7, when the 12-day-long Conference of the Parties gets underway at the Bella Centre in Copenhagen. The days leading up to the start of the talks will be filled with expectations, with the hope that the right phone conversation between leaders, a new alliance in some national legislature, or some informal discussion somewhere will be enough to tilt the scales and make an agreement in Copenhagen more likely. Stay tuned for more updates.
Eyes on Barcelona
The eyes of the climate change world are on Barcelona this month. In fact, it’s a good bet that many of you will read this newsletter while in Spain. If you are in town for the AWG negotiations at the Fira de Barcelona please try to stop by the Climate-Change.tv filming area to say hello (we’re filming on Tuesday and Wednesday). We’d love to hear what you think about the site.
Here at Climate-Change.tv, we’ve covered half dozen key international meetings so far this year, but the current Barcelona talks have a special importance. Barcelona represents the last five days of negotiations before the start of the landmark Copenhagen summit in December, and if the Copenhagen meetings are to be a success Barcelona will have played a big role in that process.
Impacts of heads of state
Brice Lalonde, France’s climate change ambassador and a key veteran figure on the climate change scene, talked to Climate-Change.tv during the previous set of meetings in Bangkok last month, discussing the steps that need to be taken in order to arrive to the final day in Copenhagen with enough done that heads of state will have a chance at hammering out the final numbers in order to reach an agreement. Click here to see that video.
It’s impossible to know how it will all play out, but be sure that as the process moves forward Climate-Change.tv will be on hand to bring you interviews with key players in the process
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