It is ironic, really. The question about financial transfers from the industrialized to the developing countries — one of the most contentious issues throughout the two weeks‘ negotiations in the Bella Center — might be one issue area, where a final Copenhagen declaration could show a clear way forward — albeit in an otherwise weak […]

It is raining in Copenhagen — the normal watery stuff, but also finance proposals, albeit of the non-official, imaginary „non-paper“ variety. But these are sometimes helpful to test the depth of the negotiation waters, to stay with the H2O analogies. Just yesterday, the „non-paper“ of the UK, Mexico, Australia and Norway made the rounds in […]