https://github.com/rufuspollock/climate-negotiations

Information on the UNFCC climate negotiations using the Earth Negotiations Bulletin from the IISD
https://github.com/rufuspollock/climate-negotiations

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Information on the UNFCC climate negotiations using the Earth Negotiations Bulletin from the IISD

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rufuspollock/climate-negotiations
• Owner: rufuspollock
• Created: 2015-12-02T08:38:32.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-12-16T19:57:36.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-31T00:22:19.773Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: climate-change, climate-crisis
• Language: CSS
• Homepage: https://rufuspollock.github.io/climate-negotiations/
• Size: 6.49 MB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 11
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
Information on 20 years of the UN Climate Change negotiations from the [Earth

Negotiations Bulletin][enb] of the IISD. The [Earth Negotiations Bulletin

(ENB)][enb] produced by the IISD provides the richest and most neutral

reporting system on the United Nations negotiations on the environment. The

[ENB volume 12][vol12], in particular, have been covering for more than 20

years the discussions of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

(UNFCCC).

[enb]: http://www.iisd.ca/enb/

[vol12]: http://www.iisd.ca/enb/vol12/

## User Stories

*Who wants to use this information and to do what?*

A. I am a negotiator from the Bangladesh delegation. I am attending a meeting

of the SBI (subsidiary body for implementation) and I am trying to get passed a

more stringent rule for the accounting of greenhouse gases emission, but I am

encountering a staunch opposition from the delegate of Saudi Arabia. I’d like

to see what this country has said on the same matter in the previous

discussions in the SBI.

B. I am a journalist and I have just seen the delegation of the AOSIS group

(Alliance of Small Islands) leaving the room because of a disagreement over

Loss and Damage. I’d like to know more about this topic and see which other

positions have been taken earlier by the same delegations.

## The Problem

The ENB is a great tool for following day-by-day the evolution of the

negotiations, but it does not easily allow to retrieve all the interventions by

one actor and/or about one topic and/or in a specific negotiation table. This

difficulty comes from two main shortcomings of the ENB:

* Spurious aggregation. Covering the negotiations in a strict chronological

  organisation - event-by-event and day-by-day - each ENB report aggregates in

  the same document:

  * different negotiation tracks (if they took place in parallel during the

    same day);

  * and different reporting formats (history of the previous meetings,

    analysis, official negotiations, in the corridors...).

* Inconsistent structuration. Though each reports is divided into ‘sections’

  separated by titles and referring to different negotiation tracks and

  reporting formats, such structure is difficult exploit because:

  * title and sections are nested in complex way;

  * the headings wording, formatting and nesting is not consistent through the

    different bulletins.