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Bonn Climate Change Conference - May 2012

13.05.2012

From 14 to 25 May 2012, governments will embark on the next essential steps required to curb global greenhouse gas emissions and help developing countries adapt to the inevitable effects of climate change, building on the historic results of the Durban Climate Change Conference last year. The Bonn UN Climate Change Conference is being attended by around 3,000 participants from 181 countries, including government delegates, representatives from business and industry, environmental organizations and research institutions. The meeting will be the first opportunity to assess and to continue to implement the results of the Durban conference, and is also designed to prepare decisions for adoption at the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha at the end of 2012. In Bonn, governments will work towards amending the Kyoto Protocol in Doha later this year, in order to allow the second commitment period of the Protocol to take effect from the beginning of 2013. They will also begin planning the work of a new negotiation to shape a universal, legal climate agreement, which is to be completed by 2015 and to enter into force from 2020, and they will discuss how to raise global ambition before 2020. Further important work to be undertaken in Bonn is on the technology and adaptation support that developing countries require to build their own sustainable energy futures and to adapt successfully to existing climate change. Also, in the field of climate finance, governments will discuss the question of how to ramp up funding support for developing nations to 100 billion USD per year by 2020.

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