This technical paper presents issues relating to the transformation of pledges for emission reductions into quantified emission limitation and reduction objectives (QELROs). It provides a brief explanation of this transformation and illustrates the effect that different variables have on it.
The "Copenhagen Accord" announced at COP 15 in Copenhagen. It agrees to weak and non-legally commitments from developed world and says that mitigation actions of developing nations will be open for "international consultation and analysis".
This UN report leaked from the Copenhagen climate talks suggests that global temperature will rise by an average of 3 degree celsius even if all the emission cuts offered so far are implemented. Is based on the most recent emission scenarios presented in the IEA 2009 World Energy Outlook and information from Parties on pledges, voluntary actions and policy goals.
In this draft text, the outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action under the Convention is envisaged as a package consisting of a core decision and thematic decisions further elaborating enhanced action for the full, effective and sustained implementation of the Convention.
The Copenhagen Accord is a term to refer to a series of decisions adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol, in particular the following two decisions adopted in accordance with the Bali Roadmap.
Deforestation, mainly conversion of forests for agriculture activities, has been estimated at an alarming rate of 13 million hectares per year (in the period 1990-2005). Deforestation results in immediate release of the carbon stored in trees as CO2 emissions. It is estimated that deforestation contributed globally to approximately 20 per cent of annual greenhouse gas emissions in the 1990s.
This paper provides an overview of the possible steps and requirements needed to develop and implement a monitoring system for estimating emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, assessing carbon stocks and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from changes in forest cover, and assessing the enhancement of forest carbon stocks.
The Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at its fourteenth session (COP14) welcomed the Global Environment Facility
The clean development mechanism allows emission-reduction projects in developing countries to earn certified emission reduction (CER) credits, each equivalent to one tonne of CO2. CERs can be traded and sold, and used by industrialized countries to meet a part of their targets under the Protocol. The CDM assists countries in achieving sustainable development and
