Late this afternoon I overheard a rumour.

In the opening plenary of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations this morning (the big meeting at the start where countries agree to the agenda for the negotiations and make their opening statements), the current chair Ambassador John Ashe announced that there was no agreement on who will be the next chair of the negotiations. The decision had been deferred for now.

New Zealand’s climate change ambassador Adrian Macey has been nominated as a candidate for the chair of the Kyoto Protocol (KP) negotiations.

Greenpeace NZ political advisor Geoff Keey reports on the latest round of climate talks.

Here I am, just over six months after Copenhagen, back at the United Nations climate change negotiations in Bonn.  I’m staying in a small hotel in the Bonn suburb of Bad Godesberg and after three negotiating sessions in Bonn last year, it all seems a bit familiar.

"My idea of damage is different to yours"

It’s now the day after the end of the Copenhagen fiasco.  After a day of reflection my assessment is the same.  It was a massive failure of diplomacy brought about by two problems - a complete lack of ambition by developed country leaders, made worse by t

Warning: I’ve only had four hours sleep (excluding my little kip on the conference chairs (left), so let’s see how I go writing this blog….

Greetings from a cold and hectic Copenhagen. We are now entering the final days of the talks. Over the past week or so, hundreds of thousands of people have marched in locations around the world; among them youth, elders, celebrities, indigenous peoples, unions...

Today, while tens of thousands gathered in central Copenhagen to march to the Bella Centre, Ian Fry, the negotiator for Tuvalu, was making an impassioned speech for the survival of his country.

Tuvalu´s strong stance for a legally binding treaty so powerful countries don´t wriggle out of their commitments continued today.