|
The next round of United
Nations
climate change negotiations is set to begin in Accra, Ghana, from
August 21 to August 27, 2008.
The Accra Climate Change
Talks will
take forward work on a strengthened and effective international
climate change deal under the UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC), as well as work on emission reduction rules and
tools under the Kyoto Protocol.
Over a thousand
participants including
government representatives, participants from business and industry,
environmental organisations and research institutions are expected to
attend the Accra gathering, which is part of the UN negotiating
process that was launched that will be concluded in Copenhagen at the
end of 2009. The process of global climate change negotiations will
culminate in 2008 in the United Nations Climate Change Conference in
Pozna, Poland, in December.
"At the UN Climate Change
Conference
in Bali in 2007, the international community embarked on a two-year
negotiating process which is both critically important and under
severe time pressure," said UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer.
"We are now eight months into these negotiations, and while
progress has been made, there is no doubt that we need to move
forward quickly," he added.
The crucial Accra talks
comprise the
third session of the Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative
Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA 3) and the first part of the
sixth session of the Ad hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for
Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP 6, part I).
Within the context of
negotiations
under the Kyoto Protocol, work is scheduled to be concluded on
analysing the means available to developed countries to reach their
emission reduction targets. In the context of the negotiation process
on strengthened international action against climate change,
workshops will be held on policy approaches and positive incentives
on issues relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and
forest degradation in developing countries. A second workshop will
deal with on cooperative sectoral approaches and sector-specific
actions. (Source: Bonner Wirtschaftsblog)
August 12, 2008
|
