UU-UNO Climate Change Task Force

Inter-Governmental Action on Global Warming: Copenhagen COP15 Conference December 2009

Click HERE for the main COP15 Copenhagen Conference website. For summary information on the Conference, click HERE. News on the Copenhagen Conference is HERE.

The Copenhagen Accord that resulted from the Conference is HERE. An account of pledged actions (emissions cuts by developed countries and "nationally appropriate mitigation actions" or  "NAMAs" by developing countries) that signed on to the Copenhagen Accord is HERE.

More information on the Copenhagen Accord, including a UNEP analysis of emision reduction pledges and the shortfall for the two degree C target of the Accord is HERE.

Some developing countries strongly object to the Copenhagen Accord for reasons given HERE.

A direct blog from the Copenhagen Conference is HERE.

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Here were the original goals for the conference, from the COP15 website:

"The UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December this year may not yield a new global climate treaty with every minor detail in place. But hopefully it will close with agreements on four political essentials, thereby creating a clarity the world – not least the financially struck business world – needs.

The wish for clarity is expressed by Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in an interview with Environment & Energy Publishing (E&E). According to Yvo de Boer, the four essentials calling for an international agreement in Copenhagen are:

1. How much are the industrialized countries willing to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases?
 
2. How much are major developing countries such as China and India willing to do to limit the growth of their emissions?
 
3. How is the help needed by developing countries to engage in reducing their emissions and adapting to the impacts of climate change going to be financed?
 
4. How is that money going to be managed?

 

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