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Mika Huettner's Blog – December 2007 Archive (4)

Pictures from the BALI climate conference

the EU Commissioner for the Environment, Stavros Dimas, is following the speech of the ministers.

Opening speech by Ban Ki Moon

Balinese dancers promoting early action on REDD

inside the conference…

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Added by Mika Huettner on December 12, 2007 at 1:06pm — 1 Comment

BALI Climate Conference #3

Hey friends,

Another busy day in Bali. Fortunatly it is moving forward. Since today the heads of states negotiate on the Bali Roadmap, which should be something like an actionplan for coming to a final agreement at last in 2009. Sounds theoretic, uh?

Today the convention centre was packed with people and the security tried to keep people off the red carpet area for the ministers. Between the different meetings I was running around in a paradise-like landscape of superb beaches…

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Added by Mika Huettner on December 12, 2007 at 11:54am — 3 Comments

BALI Climate Conference #2

Hey Friends,

today was probably the most busy days for people at the conference working on forest and climate issues: the CIFOR Forest Day. There is a lot of exitement about a potential mechanism which would gratify the reduction of deforestation emissions called REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation). It is actually the topic I was working on the last couple of years. It is good to see that this is of the agenda of policy makers and scientists in Bali, since…

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Added by Mika Huettner on December 10, 2007 at 6:27am — No Comments

BALI Climate Conference #1

Dear friends,

I am currently participating at the UNFCCC COP/MOP 13 in Bali, Indonesia for a German research institute. I hope to be able to report my impressions here from time to time during the next 10 days.

So far the conference had a good start. Australia agreed on joining the protocol...now that they have a new prime minister. And their emission reduction targets for the future are ambitious. The most important items for Bali will be to discuss a road map for the…

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Added by Mika Huettner on December 5, 2007 at 4:13am — No Comments