ECO has become increasingly concerned about the slow progress towards negotiations based on draft text for the elements of the 2015 agreement. The Co-Chairs’ approach to this task reminds ECO a bit of the movie “Groundhog Day”, where the main character relives the same day over and over again. Sure, the workshop approach has yielded some interesting exchanges of views and even a few new ideas. But the exercise of Parties continually repeating their well-known positions has its limits. And it seems to ECO that this should really come to an end now so that real negotiations can begin. Negotiators … Continue reading To negotiations and beyond