Over forty CEMS Masters in International Management students gathered in Barcelona from 19-20 May 2011 for the third annual CEMS Model UNFCCC. The block seminar is the culmination of a Climate Change Strategy Roleplay course, which involves students from the University of St Gallen, ESADE Barclona, the Warsaw School of Economics and the University of Cologne. oikos Student Reporters blogged live from the negotiations to demonstrate the role of the mass media.

The output document of the model, which was not adopted in the final vote, is available here.

For more information about the CEMS Model UNFCCC organisers, please see the Institute for Economy and the Environment at the University of St Gallen.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

EU countries discuss China's proposal and common position

"As Europe we have the technology to do it, so we should do it!"
/Johan Espinosa, Germany/

All delegates of the European Union gathered to discuss the new proposal. The Spanish representative, Mr Daniel Hermann says that the key element is the time frame. Many representatives agreed that with negotiations time limits introducing the new scheme is impossible. The most important points are as follows:
  • the coherence with previous targets,
  • the base year should stay 1999,
  • discussed periods should be limited by 2020 and 2050.
For the 2020, all delegates agreed to 30% reductions. The countries expressed a will to commit to 80% reductions by 2050. If any country commits to reduce emissions by 0.5%, the common reduction will rise respectively. However, Poland and Czech Republic says it may not acceptable. In reply, the representative of Merkel's administration said that the most important is the common voice. Switzerland joined the circle and has a strong voice in the fierce discussion.
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