Client: Agri-Africa
Area: South Africa
Timeline: February 2006
Details: OneWorld assisted in preparing a report on the potential for the formation of the joint public/private sector forum for agricultural/agri-business trade and investment between South Africa and African countries.
Existing trade agreements were reviewed and 25 countries were assessed with respect to their potential for trade and investment with South Africa.
The Assembly,
1. TAKES NOTE of the report of H E Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the coordinator of the Conference of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change (CAHOSCC), on the conduct and outcomes of the 15th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on [...]
For me, Copenhagen resembled a high-stakes game of Russian roulette, all sides wanting their own, unique outcomes. And despite a very detailed two-year negotiating process, Copenhagen failed to narrow divides and build geopolitical bridges. The developing countries wanted a result whereby they could proclaim to the world that the Kyoto Protocol had been saved. The [...]
Day 14: To sleep, perchance to dream…
Slept late. Woke feeling groggy.
Went online. Sunday Independent’s front page top story: “The Hopelesshagen flop”
It’s all over. I survived my first CoP (Conference of the Parties).
And now I feel the gravity of home beginning to reel me in … time to shower, pack and head for the airport.
Copenhagen. Hopenhagen. [...]
Day 13: Did hope die today in “Hopenhagen”?
Just quickly. I’m shattered and need to get to bed.
By the end of the day, yesterday, it was clear that we wouldn’t get a legal agreement. We were too close to the midnight deadline set by the United Nations, and countries were still stuck on the main issues [...]
Day 12: … and then Copenhagen froze
My ed wanted two things out of today: a colour piece to show what the activists and green folk were up to, and a wrap of the conference since it should finish tonight (midnight’s the deadline by when they’re supposed to have signed this thing into law).
I’d heard, from [...]
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