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Daniele Rietti

A view on the Climate Conference held in Parts in these days

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December 22, 2015

Stage lights have been switched off, the treaty has been signed and the last delegation has just left Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris. The agreement has been called historical. And now it’s time to wonder: what’s next? Whether governments…

December 14, 2015

A final deal has been signed in Paris last Saturday. After two weeks of negotiations, the almost 200 countries present at the conference have reached an agreement. Historical, it has been called by several commenters, while a broad range of different…

December 11, 2015

We are almost there. After yesterday’s version of the agreement, and after two sleepless nights that saw our heroes engaging in endless negotiations, another day  and night of intense working has started in Paris.  The final outcome is…

December 10, 2015

A new draft agreement, shorter than the previous one, has been released yesterday. The most critical divergences still persist, as countries’ coalitions are still far from deciding, for example how many degrees world temperature should be allowed…

December 8, 2015

What has been going on in Paris during the last weekend? On Monday the COP conference entered its second and last week with little agreement between the parts. Laurent Fabius, French foreign minister and COP 21 president, Friday declared that what…

December 4, 2015

On November 30th, Narendra Modi, Indian prime minister and François Hollande, president of France, launched together the “International Solar Alliance”. With the aim of providing developing countries with the technology for exploiting…

December 4, 2015

The 21st edition of the Conference of Parties (COP) is set to begin today, Monday November 30th in Paris. Organized by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) it aims at bringing together world leaders in order to find an…