International Climate Change Conference in Poznań
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- from: 01.12.2008
- to: 12.12.2008
- In: Poznań, Poznań International Fair Ltd. (Poland)
Being held from 1 to 12 December, the different meetings will bring together nearly 10,000 participants from 170 different countries. Besides the two meetings between the two subsidiary bodies responsible for implementing the United Nations Framework Convention and the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, there are two ministerial meetings between all the States that have ratified the Convention and those that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol, and two further meetings between both working groups dedicated to drawing up the framework for international action on climate change beyond 2012.
The Kyoto Protocol, which launched an initial period of international climate committments, expires in 2012. A round of negotiations intended to arrive at a new, international agreement was launched in Bali in 2007. At the half-way point in these two years of negotiations, the Poznań conference should be decisive in sustaining political momentum towards reaching a new, ambitious agreement. To drive forward negotiations, an initial compilation of all the proposals submitted by all the countries since the Bali meeting will enable a negotiating text to be drawn up in Poznań which shall be discussed at the meetings in 2009. Three specific workshops will be held on the shared vision of a new climate change regime, risk management and on the research and development of new technologies. Lastly, the Poznań conference will be an opportunity to continue the reflection process on the financial architecture for combating climate change.
The European Union is playing a major role in these negotiations and has always wished to set an example, whether in implementing the undertakings it entered into in Kyoto or in achieving its medium and long-term goals, notably in the framework of the energy-climate package. The French Presidency of the Council of the European Union will be responsible for coordinating the European position in the Poznań negotiations, negotiations which are essential for an agreement at the Copenhagen conference in 2009.
The state of negotiations midway through the Poznań conference
Africa and the European Union unite forces to fight climate change
- Updated: 22.12.2008
