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

Mitigation group: temperature - bone of contention


"We are not gonna survive!", this dramatic appeal of Maldives stirred many hearts, but not the one of the China's representative. He said that they had moved many citizens and Maldives should accept that some people have to move. The discussion goes around a 1.5 degrees or 2 degrees goal.

Brazil has the opinion that delegates should find common understanding. Maldives calls for including a realistic approach which will mean the existence of the Maldives. Sudan supports the 1.5 degree even if it would be not be achieved. Germany comments that it is pointless to choose goal that will not be possible. Meanwhile, France shows some research: the goal cannot be reached without the nuclear power! The reply of Saudi Arabia is immediate: after Japan's nuclear catastrophe, the world should be careful.
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