Governing the Climate: Kyoto to Copenhagen

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Governing the Climate Kyoto to Copenhagen

• Ann Florini
• Talloires 2009

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Climate change

• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
  common but differentiated responsibilities
• IPCC Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change
• Kyoto Process (1997/2005/2012)
• Post-Kyoto COP/MOP, post 2012

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Timeline Key Events on Climate Change
UNEP WMO form IPCC
1st IPCC report
UNFCCC agreed upon
2nd IPCC report
Kyoto Protocol passed
EU ETS Kyoto Protocol enters into force
4th IPCC Report Bali Action Plan (COP/MOP)
Copenhagen
COP7 Marrakesh 3rd IPCC report
COP12 An Inconvenient Truth (Gore) Stern Report
Kyoto Protocol Implementation Period
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Bali outcome

• Bali Action Plan, negotiations of all UNFCCC
  parties (Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term
  Cooperative Action, AWG-LCA)
• KP track for Annex One parties (Ad-hoc Working
  Group Kyoto Protocol AWG-KP)

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Post-Kyoto Process

• (i) Measurable, reportable and verifiable
  nationally appropriate mitigation commitments or
  actions, including quantified emission limitation
  and reduction objectives, by all developed
  country Parties
• (ii) Nationally appropriate mitigation actions by
  developing country Parties in the context of
  sustainable development, supported and enabled by
  technology, financing and capacity-building, in a
  measurable, reportable and verifiable manner

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Bali Action Plan

• Long term climate goal
• Emission mitigation (measurable, reportable, and
  verifiable) (sectoral approaches land use and
  forestry)
• Adaptation
• Technology transfer
• Financing

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Issues at Copenhagen

• Allocation of responsibilities common but
  differentiated
• Tech transfer and IPR
• Financing mechanisms and priorities
• Border measures and trade rules
• Carbon leakage

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