Comments on: Bridging the road from Copenhagen to Cancun – can the Bonn Climate talks lay any firm foundations? http://www.climaticoanalysis.org/post/bridging-the-road-from-copenhagen-to-cancun-%e2%80%93-can-the-bonn-climate-talks-lay-any-firm-foundations/ Independent analysis of climate policy Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bonn Climate Change Talks - Daily Update | Climatico http://www.climaticoanalysis.org/post/bridging-the-road-from-copenhagen-to-cancun-%e2%80%93-can-the-bonn-climate-talks-lay-any-firm-foundations/#comment-18057 Bonn Climate Change Talks - Daily Update | Climatico Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:45:44 +0000 http://www.climaticoanalysis.org/?p=4870#comment-18057 [...] Bridging the road from Copenhagen to Cancún - Can the Bonn Climate talks lay any firm foundations? (Posted 31 May 2010 by Sabrina Chesterman) [...] [...] Bridging the road from Copenhagen to Cancún – Can the Bonn Climate talks lay any firm foundations? (Posted 31 May 2010 by Sabrina Chesterman) [...]

]]> By: Sam Mwangi http://www.climaticoanalysis.org/post/bridging-the-road-from-copenhagen-to-cancun-%e2%80%93-can-the-bonn-climate-talks-lay-any-firm-foundations/#comment-18004 Sam Mwangi Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:47:10 +0000 http://www.climaticoanalysis.org/?p=4870#comment-18004 As a developing world professional, it is sad to acknowledge that the delays and near-hardline positions taken by the negotiators cost us the one thing we seem to be short of: TIME. It is difficult to understand and/or justify the gaps in implementation, especially when the issues are not contestable... e.g. climate change is fact, extreme events are fact, SIS and countries in the South are most vulnerable and least culpable, and that mitigation and adaptation cost money. The positions taken by the developed world, especially, exacerbates an already precarious situation, and it behoves us, indigenous people who depend absolutely on Nature's providence and stability, to seek a middle ground (or else, a bridge). But since we have little or no say, either in Copenhagen, Bonn or in yet to be held Cancun, we can only pray, and keep our fingers crossed as we wait the next flood, or famine. As a developing world professional, it is sad to acknowledge that the delays and near-hardline positions taken by the negotiators cost us the one thing we seem to be short of: TIME. It is difficult to understand and/or justify the gaps in implementation, especially when the issues are not contestable… e.g. climate change is fact, extreme events are fact, SIS and countries in the South are most vulnerable and least culpable, and that mitigation and adaptation cost money.

The positions taken by the developed world, especially, exacerbates an already precarious situation, and it behoves us, indigenous people who depend absolutely on Nature’s providence and stability, to seek a middle ground (or else, a bridge). But since we have little or no say, either in Copenhagen, Bonn or in yet to be held Cancun, we can only pray, and keep our fingers crossed as we wait the next flood, or famine.

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