{"id":6181,"date":"2014-12-11T06:25:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T06:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6181"},"modified":"2014-12-11T06:25:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T06:25:41","slug":"cop20-are-they-really-closing-the-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/12\/11\/cop20-are-they-really-closing-the-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"COP20 \u2013 are they really closing the gap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP20, comes at yet another\u00a0\"crucial moment, and talks continue on a draft international climate agreement due to be fanfared\u00a0in Paris in\u00a02015. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/lima-week-one-recap-climate-talks-falter-as-governments-evade-scrutiny\/\">Carbon Brief<\/a> has a comment\u00a0on proceedings so far, as\u00a0governments back away from accountability and action. \u00a0The World Resources Institute has highlighted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wri.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/3-issues-watch-lima-climate-talks-head-finish-line\">three issues<\/a> to watch as negotiations come\u00a0to a head. \u00a0This piece includes a neat diagram drawing together adaption, mitigation, and \"support\". \u00a0I think the latter means large transfers of \u00a0resource (cash and in-kind) from rich to poor.<\/p>\n<p>But who's rich and what's poor? \u00a0Here's a prediction: the Saudis (and others wallowing in oil who've not bothered to diversify\u00a0their economies) will be seeking huge compensation from more advanced\u00a0economies if they are to be persuaded\u00a0to leave the black stuff in the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP20, comes at yet another\u00a0\"crucial moment, and talks continue on a draft international climate agreement due to be fanfared\u00a0in Paris in\u00a02015. \u00a0Carbon Brief has a comment\u00a0on proceedings so far, as\u00a0governments back away from accountability...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}