rufuspollock / climate-negotiations

Information on the UNFCC climate negotiations using the Earth Negotiations Bulletin from the IISD
https://rufuspollock.github.io/climate-negotiations/
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Information on 20 years of the UN Climate Change negotiations from the Earth Negotiations Bulletin of the IISD. The Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) produced by the IISD provides the richest and most neutral reporting system on the United Nations negotiations on the environment. The ENB volume 12, in particular, have been covering for more than 20 years the discussions of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

 User Stories

Who wants to use this information and to do what?

A. I am a negotiator from the Bangladesh delegation. I am attending a meeting of the SBI (subsidiary body for implementation) and I am trying to get passed a more stringent rule for the accounting of greenhouse gases emission, but I am encountering a staunch opposition from the delegate of Saudi Arabia. I’d like to see what this country has said on the same matter in the previous discussions in the SBI.

B. I am a journalist and I have just seen the delegation of the AOSIS group (Alliance of Small Islands) leaving the room because of a disagreement over Loss and Damage. I’d like to know more about this topic and see which other positions have been taken earlier by the same delegations.

The Problem

The ENB is a great tool for following day-by-day the evolution of the negotiations, but it does not easily allow to retrieve all the interventions by one actor and/or about one topic and/or in a specific negotiation table. This difficulty comes from two main shortcomings of the ENB: