May 17, 2012
- The UNFCCC Secretariat has released the submissions from Australia, Gambia on behalf of the least developed countries (LDCs), Nauru on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), New Zealand, Norway and a joint submission from Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Peru, containing their views on a workplan for the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action.
May 16, 2012
- The UNFCCC Secretariat has released the submissions from Australia and Lebanon containing their views on options and ways for further increasing the level of ambition, which will be reviewed by the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) at its first session.
May 14, 2012
- The conference, which is scheduled to conclude on 25 May 2012, comprises the 36th sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), the 15th session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA), the 17th session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP), and the first session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on...
May 11, 2012
- The May edition of the UNFCCC Newsletter opens with a message from Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, who underscores tha the May session is the "first formal opportunity for governments to take forward and build on the Durban outcomes," especially in view of meeting agreed deadlines for the 18th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 18) to the UNFCCC in Doha, Qatar.
May 10, 2012
- An Informal Ministerial Roundtable on Climate Change brought together representatives from 30 countries, including from LDCs and AOSIS. The Roundtable was convened by Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action, who called on countries to keep up the momentum created in Durban on climate change and to make progress at Rio+20.
May 8, 2012
- A review of the submissions received by the UNFCCC Secretariat on options for increasing the level of ambition enables a first forecast of the prospects to bridge the ambition gap pre-2020, and for the process to develop a new instrument to raise the level of ambition post-2020. Various elements of the submissions illustrate the strong political will of some Parties to make significant progress towards abating climate change. However, other elements suggest that the entrenched boundaries and...
May 7, 2012
- An informal two-day Ministerial Meeting on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action focused on what needs to be done to ensure implementation of the Durban decision on the adoption of a new legal instrument under the UNFCCC applicable to all Parties, to be completed by 2015 and to come into effect from 2020.
May 1, 2012
- The UNFCCC Secretariat has released the submissions from 12 Parties containing their views on a workplan for the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (AWG-DPA). The submissions will be considered by the AWG-DPA at its first session, scheduled to take place in Bonn, Germany, from 17–24 May 2012.
April 30, 2012
- UNDP has released a report titled “Taking stock of Durban: Review of Key Outcomes and the Road Ahead,” which concludes that the final outcome in Durban was “the most ambitious option on the table,” underscoring that, while progress was made, key challenges remain to tackle climate change.
March 20, 2012
- The UNFCCC Secretariat has released the report of the seventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP 7), held in Durban, South Africa, which adopted 17 decisions, including on the establishment of a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol.