The climate negotiations in this month will set the post-Copenhagen agenda, and the strategic issue for developing countries is whether to focus on the new architecture of monitoring, reporting and verification or on developing a new framework that redefines the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities. (Letters)
This paper by the Global Donor Platform makes recommendations on how, within the global climate negotiations, agriculture can contribute to food security and secured livelihoods, while simultaneously building resilience to climate change, reducing GHG emissions and sequestering carbon.
This policy paper shows how the current deadlock in international climate policy can be broken. A resolute course must be set in the international climate process within the next few years in order to keep the global mean temperature rise below 2
This discussion paper examines the outcomes of the Copenhagen climate summit in December last year and more importantly explores the broader trends in climate policy globally. While it is premature to make single track recommendations on global policy frameworks, the paper explores how, in the aftermath of the Copenhagen summit, a new multilateralism could help avoid dangerous climate change.
This report analyses the international climate negotiations that took place at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC held in Copenhagen in December 2009. It lays out the main issues at stake in the negotiations, contrasts divergences in interests amongst negotiating parties, and summarises the results achieved in Copenhagen.
More than 110 nations, including top greenhouse gas emitters led by China and the United States, back the non-binding Copenhagen Accord for combating climate change, according to a first formal UN list on Wednesday.
