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

Real balance of power?


Many countries have opted to send their industry to negotiate on behalf of the government in the trading working group.

Russian industry represent the government! Has the real distribution of power in these countries finally gone public?

France's nuclear industry is here on behalf on their government: a sign of the power of the nuclear industry? France wants nuclear projects to qualify for CDM, and Poland is aligning itself with France. UK accounts for almost 30% of buying of credits through CDM, go Brits!

The US, almost forgotten by the committee chairs,  is also in favour of CDM.


(source photo: http://www.catastrophemonitor.com/2011/05/how-nuclear-power-works/)
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