The recently concluded UN climate negotiations (COP 17) have shifted the pillars of the Bali Action Plan from COP 13 to the Durban Platform on Enhanced Action (DPEA). This amounts to a disappointing delay in plans for progress (2015 is the new 2009 while 2020 is the new 2013), but unresolved questions about how to interpret the language of the new agreement may leave room for an improved process going forward.
Kartikeya Singh
Kartikeya Singh is a Ph.D. Candidate and a Junior Research Fellow at the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at The Fletcher School. He has been serving as an advisor and negotiator to the Republic of Maldives in the UN climate negotiations since COP 15 (Copenhagen, Denmark) in 2009. His research focuses on climate, energy and innovation.
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