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

US public backlash at UNFCCC negotiations

US public have backlashed at the US government's generous emission targets reductions, as announced in the Mitigation Working Group at the UNFCCC in Barclona. A Tea Party Rally has taken Washington by storm, with over 20 000 right-wing Republicans marching against Obama's proposed 20% emissions reduction by 2020, based on 1990 baseline.

Sarah Palin made a surprise appearance as the keynote speaker of the rally, to denounce Obama's strategy at the UNFCCC, stating 'This will cost our country billions. Why should America pay the price for the emissions that China will emit in the future? I care about America's future. Our future. And Obama is giving it away to make friends in countries that I didn't even know existed.".

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