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John Lanchbery, RSPB Principal Climate Change Advisor, at the Bonn UNFCCC conference Thursday and a warm, humid morning breaks over the climate change talks in Bonn. Up early to ensure that I am sufficiently alert to chair the daily NGO 'political coordination' at nine. Catch the local...

John Lanchbery, RSPB Principal Climate Change Advisor, at the Bonn UNFCCC conference It is warm, sunny day here at the UN climate talks in Bonn. It is less warm and sunny inside the main meeting room, however, where Russia has just finally stalled one of the two main technical sessions, the Subsidiary...

If you want the latest global climate statistics, here they are. Last year was the ninth warmest on record, says the World Meteorological Organisation’s statement on global climate for 2012 . At 0.45°C above the 1961-90 average, it’s the 27th consecutive year above the long term average...

John Lanchbery, Principal Climate Change Advisor We are not on course to save the world from climate change. Emissions are not heading downwards so as to ensure an average global temperature rise of less than two degrees, the target agreed by all nations. Instead they are surging upwards towards a...

Much of the UK is hunkering down for a weekend of expected snow. My friend Andrew, along with farmers across the land, will be bracing himself for a hard slog of feeding animals – he sent me this today from Wiltshire: It is January, when snow probably should be expected here, and it’s...

John Lanchbery, at the UNFCCC conference Two days to go at the global climate negotiations in Doha and the sun continues to shine outside, although not much light percolates through to the negotiations. Ministers have arrived now and with them have come the journalists; I am sitting next to John Vidal...

John Lanchbery, at the Doha UNFCCC conference Sunday, and I am just back from an early morning walk around the dhow wharf, one of last remnants of the old pearl fishing village of Doha. The rest of the city is brand, spanking new and stretches far out into the deserts of Qatar. Thanks to its huge...

O Canada! My home and native land! True patriot love, in all thy son’s command! Heather Ducharme That’s the first line the national anthem of my mother country. However, sitting in the RSPB climate change policy team two desks over from the guy who goes to the UNFCC meetings, I’m...

John Lanchbery, Principal Climate Change Advisor The European Parliament voted in favour of countries taking responsibility for their emissions from agriculture and peatlands. ‘Shouldn’t they be doing that anyway?’ you may well ask, slightly surprised. The answer is, of course, ‘yes’...

John Lanchbery from the Bangkok UN climate meeting The UN climate talks in Bangkok are drawing to a close. After running straight through the weekend, typically for at least twelve hours each day, everyone is feeling a bit tired now. This is not helped by the fact that, as the guide books say, Bangkok...

Post by John Lanchbery, Principal Climate Change Adviser at the RSPB Often unreported amidst the high profile politics of the international climate talks are the negotiations on saving tropical forests or, in the snappy jargon of the UN process: ‘reducing emissions from deforestation and forest...

Post by Melanie Coath, Senior Policy Officer, in Durban Negotiators and NGOs alike are preparing for the Ministers taking over the negotiations when the High Level Segment kicks off tomorrow. All in all we have 12 Heads of State and 130 Ministers arriving here in Durban, indeed some are already here...

Guest post from John Lanchbery, Principle Climate Change Adviser at the RSPB, in Durban The tropical storm that has been brewing all day has fallen upon Durban this evening, just in time to catch representatives of the World’s environment and development groups on their way back from a strategy...

This is a powerful video presentation that was played at our conference the other week by Moussa Abou Mamouda (from ENDA Senagal & Africa Adapt). Clearly shows how people and nature are already being affected by climate change in Africa. Thanks to colleagues at WWF and Mairi Dupar at CDKN for...

Posted by John Lanchbery, Principal Climate Change Adviser, from the climate conference in Panama Sunday in Panama City began with a huge thunderstorm at about six o’clock but the UN climate talks continued as usual; first with country grouping coordinations at eight or nine o’clock and...

Posted by Melanie Coath, Senior Climate Policy Officer, from Panama at the latest Climate talks. I've just arrived in hot sticky Panama City for the latest set of climate change negotiations, together with my colleague John Lanchbery. These are the last set of negotiations before the big Ministerial...

As many of you will know, there have been for many years long and drawn out negotiations over a global deal on climate change to follow on from the Kyoto Protocol, which will expire next year. The RSPB has engaged with 2 key parts of these negotiations - getting a deal and funding to protect the world's...

The climate negotiations in Cancun that begin in just 3 weeks aren't going to deliver the all singing, all dancing global climate deal we need. But they are an opportunity to bank the bits of progress we've seen since the Copenhagen fiasco and act as a stepping stone to success in the talks in...