Saturday, 04 February 2012
Something resembling progress in Bonn
27 April 2010
The UNFCCC hosted a short meeting in Bonn (April 9 - 11) to determine the agenda for the global climate negotiations for the rest of 2010. After the international belly flop in Copenhagen, it was clear that the single two-week session scheduled for June in Bonn would not be nearly enough time for all 192 parties to adequately prepare for the next Conference of Parties (COP-16) in Cancun, Mexico in late November.
Two additional negotiation sessions (totalling three weeks) were added for 2010, though the locations and exact timing of the added meetings have yet to be determined. The chairs of the two negotiating track's working groups (i.e., Kyoto Protocol and Long Term Cooperative Action) also received official mandates to produce text, which in practical terms means that at the next negotiating session in June in Bonn, substantive discussions can start again. CAN welcomes the progress made at "mini-Bonn" especially after the colossal global failure in Copenhagen.
CAN Europe was present at the mini-Bonn session in April to try and ensure the negotiators stay on course for a deal that limits global temperature rise to no more than 2 degrees centigrade. In the world of the Copenhagen Accord, we are on course for a much greater and more dangerous temperature increase.
An on-demand webcast of the press briefing hosted by Climate Action Network in Bonn assessing the outcome of the three day inter-sessional meeting is available here.
The final conclusions of the two working groups are available here:
Q+A on the EU, Durban and the Kyoto Protocol -
