NATURAL GAS: AFRICAN NEGOTIATING CHAOS THREE MONTHS BEFORE COP27
ANG delegates reportedly formally refused to embrace the common position toward COP27 already adopted in July by the African Union itself, which sees a new push on domestic use of natural gas as a development and transitional energy. An institutional cul-de-sac, in short, in which African government delegates to the COPs refuse to adhere to a position adopted only a few weeks earlier by their own governments, united in the African Union.
COP15 BIODIVERSITY: THE GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY AGREEMENT IS STILL NOT READY. MOVING TOWARDS A FIFTH NEGOTIATING SESSION
At the end of June, what was to be the fourth and final session of preparatory negotiations was held in Nairobi with a view to concluding COP15 at the end of 2022. In fact, after the March interim negotiations in Geneva, delegates had decided to schedule an additional negotiating session before COP15, held in Nairobi from June 21-26, 2022, further pushing back the closing date of COP15.
TAXONOMY, A PARTIAL DEFEAT FOR THE EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL
Last July 6, the European Parliament rejected the opposition presented by some political forces to the European Commission's proposed Taxonomy for Eco-Sustainable Investments. That proposal, as is well known, in its revision approved by the Commission on Feb. 2, 2022, included natural gas and nuclear energy among the "transition technologies" to a decarbonized economy. Therefore, with the non-opposition of the European Parliament and the subsequent approval of the European Council on July 12 (discounted), the Taxonomy will come into force as such from next January 1, 2023. But what is it all about?
BIODIVERSITY: LAST CHANCE IN NAIROBI TO REACH AN AMBITIOUS AGREEMENT AHEAD OF COP15
The last session of preparatory negotiations for COP15, the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), began on Monday in Nairobi.
THE G7 TRIES TO APPLY PATCHES WHERE A REVOLUTION IS NEEDED
G7, climate: what steps forward and what remains unfinished business? The analysis of Jacopo Bencini, Policy Advisor at Italian Climate Network