Hi everyone:
I just wanted to let you know that as of 11:00 pm Friday night in Bali, delegates are still in informal ministerial consultations. Most of the COP and COP/MOP decisions have been adopted. The consultations are over the "Bali Roadmap" which will probably involve 3-4 decision texts under a President's Declaration. This will set the path towards the negotiations on a post-2012 climate regime. The last I heard was that the consultations could go all night and that unless there is an imminent breakthrough, plenary will resume at 8:00 am on Saturday (that's 7:00 pm New York time Friday night). You can follow the "end-game" on our www site: http://www.iisd.ca/climate/cop13/ as well as the live UNFCCC webcast http://www.un.org/webcast/unfccc/# <http://www.un.org/webcast/unfccc/> . The latter is pretty boring right now as it just shows a handful of delegates milling about trying to stay awake in case the plenary suddenly resumes. The Earth Negotiations Bulletin summary of the Bali Conference will be available on our www site by Sunday night, New York time. For those of you who may not be familiar with IISD-Reporting Services, we have been providing real-time coverage of United Nations environment and development negotiation since the lead up to the Earth Summit in Rio since 1992. We currently cover approximately 20 different multilateral environmental agreements and processes as well as numerous other workshops and symposia. Our flagship publication, the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, is the de facto record of the MEA world for the past 15 years. Numerous faculty members have their students follow negotiations through our website as part of their classroom assignments and our archives provide some of the most detailed discussions of the negotiating processes that exist today. Our www site also includes photos and, in some cases, audio files from meetings that help bring these meetings to life for those who are not able to attend. Our www site is http://www.iisd.ca <http://www.iisd.ca/> . On our main page you can link to different issue clusters as well as to recent meetings we have covered. You can also sign up for our numerous lists that are issue specific as well as ones that enable you to stay up to date with the processes we cover. Here are some resources that may be useful to those of you who research and teach GEP: Linkages Update: http://www.iisd.ca/email/linkagesupdate.htm A bi-weekly update on what is new on our www site - here is the latest: http://www.iisd.ca/whats_new/whatsnew97.html MEA Bulletin: http://www.iisd.ca/email/mea-l.htm The MEA Bulletin is a bi-weekly publication created by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD <http://www.iisd.org/> ), in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme's Division for Environmental Law and Conventions (UNEP DELC <http://www.unep.org/dec/> ). Here is our latest issue: http://www.iisd.ca/mea-l/meabulletin37.pdf The ENB Archives: http://www.iisd.ca/voltoc.html This enables you to link in to every Earth Negotiations Bulletin report we have published since 1992, organized by process/MEA. Archives of other meetings covered: http://www.iisd.ca/sd/index.html#archives If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I hope you find this information helpful in your research and teaching. Good luck with your end of semester grading and enjoy the holidays! Pam Pamela S. Chasek, Ph.D. Executive Editor, Earth Negotiations Bulletin IISD Reporting Services 300 East 56th Street #11A New York, NY 10022 USA Tel: +1 212-888-2737- Fax: +1 646 219 0955 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) www.iisd.org <file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\pam\Local%20Settings\Temporary%20 Internet%20Files\www.iisd.org> IISD Reporting Services - Earth Negotiations Bulletin www.iisd.ca <file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\pam\Local%20Settings\Temporary%20 Internet%20Files\www.iisd.ca> Subscribe for free to our publications http://www.iisd.ca/email/subscribe.htm
