Bolivia's attempt to win fresh support for the Kyoto Protocol is a step ahead in the efforts of the developing world to advance climate negotiations. Brazil, South Africa, India, and China have, as the BASIC countries, called for a legally binding, long-term cooperative agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol.
There are clear signs that China feels challenged to take a quantitative emission cap in a post-Kyoto world and expects developed nations to lead on emission reduction, a view that was clearly expressed by Chinese authorities in Copenhagen. However, we think China carries part of the responsibility of global climate change and is capable to offer more.
The prospects for agriculture partly tied to the overall prospects remained unclear in the Copenhagen climate talks. Keeping in view of poverty reduction, food security and climate change, if forest and agriculture sectors come together and address in an integrated fashion, they can push for provisions in favour of the sectors.
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.
The Climate Competitiveness Index (CCI) is the most comprehensive analysis to date of national progress towards a low carbon economy. The 2010 CCI shows how countries are creating low carbon strategies by combining performance and accountability. The report draws on a robust new assessment of public policy business action and consumer patterns in 95 countries.
The objective of this report is to derive evaluation criteria for global climate policy and to apply this analysis framework to a number of existing proposals for climate policy architectures relying on a global carbon market.
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.
