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Bonn UN Climate Change meeting delivers progress on key issues

31.05.2012

Meeting in Bonn for the first time after the historic UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, governments made progress in ensuring that this year’s conference in Doha, at the end of 2012, can take the next essential steps towards meeting the long-term challenge of climate change. Progress was made in the areas of preparing for the amendment of the Kyoto Protocol; on building the institutions and infrastructure that can benefit the poor and most vulnerable in developing countries; and on paving the way for a new global climate agreement. Meanwhile, the new ADP negotiation (the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action) was launched and its agenda agreed. The ADP is tasked to adopt a new global climate agreement by 2015, to take effect from 2020, and also to find ways to raise global ambition to act on climate change before 2020. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres called on governments to continue intensive, informal work on detailed substantive issues before the Doha meeting.

The full UNFCCC’s press release is available at: http://unfccc.int/files/press/press_releases_advisories/application/pdf/20120525_pr_sb6_close.pdf

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