UN Climate Negotiations and Climate Summits

2010 incl. Climate Summit in Cancún

• Cancún breaks the ground for new dynamics to combat climate change. Press release, 11 Dec 2010
• Germanwatch Briefing on the climate summit in Cancún 2010 [PDF]
• Discussion paper: Copenhagen and beyond: reshuffling the cards (June 2010)
• International action on adaptation and climate change: What roads from Copenhagen to Cancún? (June 2010)
• Briefing Paper: Regional Centres for a changing climate (March 2010)

• Briefing Paper for the Copenhagen Summit: Substance or Greenwash Show?
• Briefing Paper: Between Poznan and Copenhagen: The Climate Train in the "Valley of Death". Results of the UN Climate Summit in Poland
• Climate Change Performance Index 2009 incl. press review
• Climate Change Performance Index 2010
• Global Climate Risk Index 2010 incl. Press Review
• Briefing Paper: Loopholes in the Emissions Targets of Industrialized Countries (11 Dec. 2009)
• Discussion Paper: The Adaptation Fund in the debate on the post-2012 financial architecture (10 Dec. 2009)
• Global Climate Risk Index 2010 incl. Press Review
• Briefing Paper for the Copenhagen Summit: Substance or Greenwash Show?

• The Adaptation Fund: Maturing on the way to Copenhagen. Briefing on the outcomes of the 8th meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board (Nov. 2009)
• Briefing Paper: The Layers of the Doll: Exploring the Russian Position to Copenhagen (Nov. 2009)
• UN Climate talks in Bangkok: Too little, too slow, too unambitious. Press release 9 Oct. 2009
• Briefing Paper: The Dead Souls: How to Deal With the Russian Surplus? (Sept. 2009)
• Briefing Paper: 7th meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board (Sept. 2009)

• A Copenhagen Climate Treaty - Version 1.0 (June 2009)
• A summary of the Climate Negotiations in Bonn, June 2009
• Climate Action Day / Development and Climate Day on 6 June in Bonn
• Climate talks need massive political support. Press release 8 April 2009
• Briefing Paper "Funding Sources for International Climate Policy" (March 2009)
• Europe's half-hearted plan to finance climate action. A comment on the Commission's proposal for a EU position (Feb. 2009)
• Discussion Paper: A Portrait of China’s Climate Policy

• Change of course needed after climate summit in Poznan. Press release 12 Dec 2008
• Adaptation Fund: Demands by NGOs, 11 Dec 2008
• Briefing Paper: Railway Switches for the Climate Train in Poznan (Nov. 2008)
• Briefing Paper: Climate change Adaptation in Poznan: moving forward on short and long-term action? (Nov. 2008)
• Briefing Paper: Adaptation under UNFCCC – the road from Bonn to Poznan 2008 (August 2008)
• Climate Protection & Adaptation - Germanwatch Journal No.2/2008 [PDF, 620K]
• Briefing Paper: Adaptation to climate change (March 2008)
• Briefing Paper: Bali, Poznan, Copenhagen - Triple Jump Towards a new Quality of Climate Policy? (Feb. 2008)

• 02 Dec., 19:30-21:00: Side Event "A greater risk of sea level rise? New insights since IPCC 2007". Room "Swan". >> Presentations + Video-Webcast 
• 04 Dec., 10-10:30 a.m.: Press conference: Presentation of the Climate Risk Index 2009. Room "Swan"
• 05 Dec., 17:00-19:00: Presentation of the study "Climate change, food security and the right to adequate food". Wind Power Works Pavillion, Hall 11.
• 08 Dec. 9:00 a.m.: Press Conference of the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII).>> Video-Webcast
• 10 Dec. 12:00-12:30: Presentation of the Climate Change Performance Index 2009.

• Breakthrough at the climate summit. Press release 15 December 2007
• Videos from the Bali summit 2007
• Interview with Christoph Bals on wikinews
• Interview with Christoph Bals, 11 Dec.
• Climate Risk Index 2008
• Climate Change Performance Index 2008
• CCPI Online Press Review
• Briefing Paper: Climate Summit in Bali: Start of a hurdle race until Copenhagen (January 2008)
• Briefing Paper: Climate summit in Bali: Starting point for decisive steps towards a low-emission model of prosperity? (Nov 2007)
• Briefing Paper: Bali as litmus test for Heiligendamm. An analysis of the climate relevance of the G8 summit 2007 (July 2007) [PDF, 60KB]
• Briefing Paper: Civil Society Alliances on Climate Change in Industrialised Countries (August 2007)
• G8: Divert the deked move by the US government into constructive dynamics (June 2007)
• Gleneagles Dialogue: NGO declaration on energy policy (March 2007)