Re: HCFCs and Kyoto

2007-09-25 Thread Radoslav Dimitrov
Dear colleagues, I just came back from Montreal where they negotiated the new HCFC agreement. Heady week! Having witnessed what happened there and how exactly it happened, I hope some observations would be useful to you. Below is also a commentary I drafted for an Earth Negotiations

correction

2007-09-25 Thread Radoslav Dimitrov
Oops, I just realized that the draft commentary I included in my previous message contained one paragraph written by someone else (another ENB writer who was also in Montreal). Below is the corrected, original version of my draft. I hope this information is useful. Cheers, Rado The

Re: correction

2007-09-25 Thread phaas
Thanks Rado for sharing this. What is the coy reference to to another important G8 player? In the past ENB has excelled at citing actors by names, and not hiding behind UN social conventions. - Original Message - From: Radoslav Dimitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wil Burns [EMAIL

Article on aboriginal ecotourism in Taiwan - politics and environment

2007-09-25 Thread William Hipwell
Hi my friends and colleagues: I hope that you will forgive what might come across as a minor act of self-promotion, but I thought that this might be of interest to some of you looking at the intersection between environmental politics, aboriginality/indigeneity, and ecotourism. I therefore

Re: HCFCs and Kyoto

2007-09-25 Thread Allison Morrill Chatrchyan
Radoslav, Thanks for sharing your first-hand, in-depth insights - I wish I could have been at the conference (having been involved in the Montreal Protocol as a UNEP staff member in late 1990s). I think it would be interesting to share your insights with a long-time EPA staffer, Steve