What would you be doing if you were in Cancun at 8pm on a Friday night? Odds on you wouldn’t be sitting in a convention centre waiting for a meeting to start, but that is what I and around 12,000 other people are doing right now as we wait for the Cancun Climate Talks to [...]

As you would imagine, we keep a fairly close eye on the negotiations that are occuring at COP16 in Cancun – it is why we are here after all! Now is the time when ministers and heads of state are taking part in the discussions, but the real negotiations are still being done by the [...]

One of the things we have been impressing upon delegates here at the COP16 climate talks in Cancun is that the aviation industry is not just looking at the policy side of climate change. In fact, as mentioned at last night’s side event, we have hundreds of projects underway around the world to reduce emissions. [...]

One of the key tasks of observer organisations like ours at UN Climate Talks is to educate delegates on the work we are doing to reduce emissions. Tonight, we hosted a so-called ‘side event’ on aviation biofuels. Speakers included Kevin Welsh from the Air Transport Association of America, Amy Bann from Boeing Commercial Airplanes and [...]

Another global climate negotiations session begins today in Cancun, Mexico. This is COP16 – the 16th Conference of the Parties to the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change – and it promises to be a hot two weeks, both temperature-wise and also heated in the negotiations. Whether that heat will help the world’s governments reach [...]

Climate change negotiations have kicked off again in Bonn this week, as representatives from across the globe continue in their constant efforts for an agreement on how the world should move forward in the battle against climate change. So whilst industry representatives are busy in Bonn, explaining their commitments to collective efforts in combating global [...]

It was somewhat surreal that as we were leaving the Bella Centre last night after another day’s discussions on global warming, it was snowing heavily. The city looks rather magical this morning and I can tell you this because the city is all we can see – we have been kicked out of the Bella [...]

Things are hotting up here in Copenhagen. After the country representatives spent all last week working on the text dealing with aviation, suddenly yesterday the President of the COP – who chairs the proceedings – announced that she was splitting these workstreams into even smaller groups and making the sessions closed to observers. It is [...]

The Danish Government specified that 65% of all food in the congress centre for COP15 be organic. Instead, the caterers thought they said 65% tasteless and 100% de-frosted. The food is really bad here (aside from the carrot cake). Other than that, the event is actually very well organised. The computer systems are good (wi-fi [...]

It’s Saturday and the work of the COP15 continues, although most of the meetings today are closed. Security was noticably tighter coming in this morning, as Ministers and the high-level delegations start arriving. Security is also especially strong today due to a mass protest that is expected to take place. I was reflecting this morning [...]