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Countdown to the premiere of the all new block buster in the Save the World Series!

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The latest terminology and perhaps a new point of focus for a possible blockbuster break coming from the climate change action hub of many drafts and agenda is the Intentional nationally determined contribution, the INDC . This of course is no news again as the various member countries of the world are scrambling to come up with their relative scripting to ensuring a part in the all new series of saving the world strategy with the main feature of staying below the 2C safety threshold of earth warmth. The expectations are quite high as the brand new series  would be an all complete one, star studded with the big shots( big emitter nations) as usual and of course with the yet to come to the limelight actors ( light carbon footed nations). This time around the scripting is coming in a whole new dimension as each actor nation would have to come up with their most convenient and possible scripting that would fit the parts and roles allotted to each. While each actor nation ...

Towards the Paris Agreement… a race for the nations

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Towards the Paris Agreement… a race for the nations The lead up to the next conference of parties to the UNFCCC (COP21) coming up later in the year in Paris is gradually gathering a level of momentum which on the scale of measure could be ascribed  as tilting towards been significantly ambitious with regards to the responses of countries to the submission of their respective Intended Nationally determined contributions (INDC). Following the  rather low spirited outcomes of the Lima negotiations and the optimistic expectations from the much anticipated Paris  negotiations in December, member countries to the UNFCCC have  agreed on a predefined course of action in the regards of  submitting nationally defined goals and targets  as their relative intended contributions towards the global agreement in Paris and in the obvious turn, the industrialized nations are excepted to lead the rest of the world in coming up with substantive and clea...