CEENRG Fellow Dr Joanna Depledge features in Associated Press article

Dr Joanna Depledge, a Fellow at the Department of Land Economy's Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance, has been featured in an article for the Associated Press.

The article, entitled 'Can U.N. summits save the planet? A faltering year of talks brings up questions about the process', looks at the issues that climate negotiations face and how these could be resolved.

An excerpt from the article reads,

Thirty years ago when the climate conferences started there was debate over how decisions should be adopted.

A prominent fossil fuel industry lobbyist and Saudi Arabia pushed hard to kill the idea of majority or supermajority vote and instead adopt the idea of consensus so that every country more or less had to be on board, said climate negotiations historian Joanna Depledge at Cambridge University in England.