Browsing Archive: December, 2009
Posted by Bill Liao on Sunday, December 20, 2009,
Being an official Party representing St Kitts and Nevis in the COP15 meetings I sat bewildered as after nearly two weeks of patient diplomacy all the agreements we were working on were side lined by a document that a small group of 30 nations, led by the US president, inserted into the agenda and then suggested we had one hour to review and approve. What was even weirder is that I was also online getting notes from people around the world who had read that a successful accord had been reached...
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Posted by Bill Liao on Wednesday, December 16, 2009,
Where are the captains of industry? Where is the leadership? Who is at the helm? Where are the religious leaders? Why are the NGO's being excluded.
If you do not know the answers to these questions then count yourself among many of use here who are standing for substantial legally binding targets to save the Earth and our species and yet cannot see what good this meeting is really going to do.
The only reassurance I have been given by my fellow small island state delegates is that this is the w...
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Posted by Bill Liao on Monday, December 7, 2009,
It is a very revealing to see behind the curtain of the United Nations. I can see that the years that have been put in have been ones of hard one negotiations and that there is a lot to get through in the next days and I am standing for an agreement to come and looking for ways to contribute every day and a lot of my time is just trying to figure it all out so as to not cause any issues myself.
There three levels of negotiations the first of which have been going on since June for this meeting... Continue reading ...
Posted by Bill Liao on Thursday, December 3, 2009,
As I sit here in the First hotel in Copenhagen pouring over nearly incomprehensible conference information and formulating our last minute preparations to promote the cause of reforestation in Copenhagen I got a delightful boost from Stephen Fry who not only very very kindly narrated our new video for free, he just tweeted about us to his million plus followers on Twitter.
If you do not already follow @Stephenfry on twitter I highly recommend you start!
Thank you Stephen it is appreciated by ... Continue reading ...
