The Arctic as a resource base
What’s wrong with Russia’s official documents on the Arctic.
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Publish date: October 14, 2015
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As part of the launch of the four partners to collaborate at COP21, this evening will see Bellona and CICERO hosting “Norway’s biggest unofficial climate pre-party” in Oslo. Tonight’s pre-party in Oslo is hosted as a run up to for Norwegians going to Paris. Both Bellona president, Frederic Hauge and CICERO director Kristin Halvorsen, will be speaking at the event.
Those in Oslo can sign-up to attend here.
The agreement to be signed in Paris at the end of the year, is expected to become the most important one of the 2000s, hence Bellona and CICERO are planning to be heavily present at the negotiation centre in Paris. During two weeks of negotiations, the global community is to agree on a new climate deal that will limit global warming to two degrees.
In Paris, you may find Bellona at the partnership’s pavilion in Hall 3 at the COP21 negotiation space at the Paris-Le Bourget site. Here there will be a dedicated space for side-events, smaller meetings and mingling. Planned side-events cover the breadth of Bellona’s work, spanning energy storage and energy efficiency to carbon capture and storage (CCS). Two side-events will also be focussing on carbon negative solutions, namely the combination of sustainable biomass and CCS to take excess CO2 out of the atmosphere.
Bellona has been actively involved since the beginning of the UN international climate talks in 1992. Through participation, Bellona has built up a unique experience as well as a large and influential network among international climate delegates, business, NGOs, civil society and the media covering the proceedings. Bellona presence with solution lobbying has helped to maintain a constructive pressure on negotiations, which subsequently will be the focus of Bellona’s engagement at this year’s talks as well.
What’s wrong with Russia’s official documents on the Arctic.
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