Category archive for kyoto protocol

Fiasco of the Copenhagen agreement

16 Nov 2009

Dear Readers,
As we were writing in our previous post, the future of the post-Kyoto agreement is seriously endangered. Yesterday, during an Asia-Pacific summit in Singapore, the US president Barack Obama and country leaders from China, Japan, Russia, Mexico, Australia and Indonesia agreed to delay a climate agreement to 2010 or even later. This means that [...]

UNFCCC documents to faciliate the post-Kyoto negotiations

19 Oct 2009

Dear Readers,
The UNFCCC Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) published documents which are to help parties prepare to the meeting of UNFCCC in Barcelona (which is being held at the beginning of the November) and facilitate the work on new international agreement on climate change.

Concerns rose after an informal UNFCCC meeting in Bonn in August

14 Aug 2009

Dear Readers,
The weekly informal negotiations of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn (Germany) regarding the future post-Kyoto agreement ended on Friday 14th of August 2009. Taking into consideration that participants didn’t reach a considerable progress during this meeting more fears come up among experts and observers that new international agreement related [...]

Greenhouse gases emissions in Australia – rise by 1,1% in 2008

2 Jun 2009

Dear readers,
According to results presented by Australian Department of Climate Change emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) rose by 1,1% in 2008 compared to year 2007. However this increase is not influencing on the target from Kyoto Protocol (it is 8% increase in GHG emissions, yes increase, in period 2008-2012 comparing with 1990 levels). Australia is [...]

Kyoto Protocol – negotiation paper, Bonn 2009

1 Jun 2009

Dear Readers,
The beginning of June brings an important (maybe still not crucial) meeting of UNFCCC parties – working groups that will focus mainly on the negotiation documents presented by UNFCCC in May 2009. In this short article I would like just to indicate the main purpose of the two documents regarding Kyoto Protocol and [...]

UNFCCC negotiating texts

1 Jun 2009

Dear readers,
Today we have an international Children’s day, but additionally on 1st of June 2009 the second UNFCCC meeting starts in Bonn. Will this 12-day event bring any progress for global agreement that should be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009? It depends.

COP 14 Poznań

14 Feb 2009

For the mistery COP 14 Poznań name stands the Fourteenth session and Conference of the Parties serving as the Fourth meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) and sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies.