Making sense of Copenhagen

Dear friends and colleagues, The list exchange on this topic has been particularly vibrant and enriching. Thanks everyone for your thoughts! Remarkable how many different interpretations of the Copenhagen outcome. I was fortunate to witness the full story from within until the end at 15:30

Climate talks update

Please do not reply to all. Dear friends, Japan tabled 11 billion last night - and no one mentioned it! The money on the table is having little effect here. On the eve of the last day, negotiators do not have a draft climate agreement to present to the 120 Heads of States tomorrow. Ten

reporting from Copenhagen

Dear colleagues, You could receive inside information direct from the climate conference in Copenhagen. I was appointed on a government delegation in Copenhagen, and will be a delegate from the European Union. The red government badge gives access to closed-door UN debates where much of

Update: climate talks in Barcelona

PLEASE DO NOT 'REPLY TO ALL' Dear colleagues, Regards from the climate talks in Barcelona. I am a government delegate in the EU block and write to inform you of an important development here. Yesterday afternoon the Chair of the Convention negotiations Michael Zammit-Gutajar proposed to

Re: Stockholm, Rio, JoBurg: Helpful video resources?

Olivia, Thank you for this truly remarkable video. It accomplishes more than any book can. Just as governments can pile words and forsake action, we educators are at chronic risk of getting lost intellectualizing and burying our students in academic concepts. This video is a reminder

Green living tips

Does anyone know a good source of ideas for daily living that helps the environment? Not idling, changing lightbulbs, buying silly things with the word green on them, things like that :) Something you could point your students to. Cheers, Rado Radoslav S. Dimitrov, Ph.D. Assistant

Re: marine resource management vs. conservation in the Pacific

Rado S. Dimitrov, “Confronting Non-Regimes: Science and International Coral Reef Policy,” Journal of Environment and Development, vol. 11, no. 1 (March 2002), pp. 53-78 This is the only article in political science on the global politics of coral reefs. It provides the history of political

breaking news from Bali

Dear friends, Gut-wrenching suspense in Bali at noon on Saturday. Governments are on the brink of adopting text on actions for developing countries! There had been informal agreement on it and clean text was brought to Plenary. IF adopted, this would be the very first time the G-77

Re: HCFCs and Kyoto

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

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: Community-based management of coral reef resources

Nancy Knowlton is one of the premier coral reef scientists and very willing to talk to political scientists. It has been a long time since I interviewed her but I am sure you can Google her for contact info. Radoslav S. Dimitrov, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Political Science

climate change negotiations

Dear colleaguesWhat recent publications on climate change negotiations would you recommend to graduate students? I am particularly interested in theory-oriented work and shrewd observations on recent and current negotiations. Best, Radoslav S. Dimitrov, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorDepartment of

Re: Easy to read climate book?

Dear Henrik and company I recommend the brand new book from Cambridge, by Andrew E. Dessler and Edward A. Parson, The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate (CUP 2006). It provides a lucid and comprehensive summary of the state of knowledge on all aspects of

Re: Emerging environmental issues?

One recurrent theme at various intergovernmental meetings is Coordination. With a plethora of multilateral agreements, many of which are interrelated, there is frequent talk about coordinating their implementation. Synergies is a keyword in global policy discourse and an item on the formal

Re: comprehensive exams

What I always wanted to know but were afraid to ask: Dear Michele Perhaps my message arrives too late and your student has already taken the exam (in such case, you could require her/him to take it again:). Here is my suggestion for a graduate exam question: Discuss the differences

Re: Green identity of states?

Perhaps a key question regarding identity is identity defined by whom? The identity of actor A as defined by A, or defined by actors B, C, etc.? This query could lead to theorizing green identity as self-image versus image. Identity based on patterns of behavior (perceived by others) versus