Transcript building long-term cooperative action to address climate

Claudio Forner
UNFCCC secretariat
The UNFCCC’s Bali
Roadmap: building
long-term cooperative
action to address
climate change
[email protected]
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Outline
• Introduction: The UNFCCC
• The Bali roadmap
• The Bali Action Plan
• What is needed?
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The UNFCCC
Objective: stabilization of greenhouse gas
concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that
would prevent dangerous anthropogenic
interference with the climate system. Such a level
should be achieved within a time frame sufficient
to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate
change, to ensure that food production is not
threatened and to enable economic development
to proceed in a sustainable manner.
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The UNFCCC: timeline
1992: Convention enters into force
1979: First climate change
conference
1997: Kyoto Protocol Adopted
2001: Marrakesh Accords
2005: Kyoto Protocol enters
into force
2007: IPCC FAR; Bali Roadmap
2008: Kyoto first commitment
period starts
2009: Agreement on long-term
cooperative action
2012: Kyoto first commitment
period expires
Long term
Cooperative
Action to
Address
Climate
Change
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The road to Bali: gaining political momentum
• A two year dialogue under the UNFCCC
• Kyoto Protocol short life expires after 2012
• IPCC Fourth Assessment Report:
– Climate change is unequivocal
– Global emissions continue to raise
– Delay in reducing emissions constrains development
– Humanity has the capacity to address climate change
• Raising the political status of climate change:
– UN secretary General high level event
– G8
– APEC
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The Bali Roadmap
 A two year negotiating process for a
broad and robust response to climate
change. Components:
A new negotiation process (LCA)
Deforestation
Technology transfer
Kyoto track: time table for the AWG,
adaptation fund and the review of the
Protocol
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New negotiations: Bali Action Plan
• Enhance the implementation of the Convention
• An Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative
Action under the Convention to address:
– Nationally appropriate commitments or actions by
developed countries and mitigation actions for
developing countries;
– Essential actions to adapt to climate change and
promote climate-resilient development;
– Mobilise finance and technology cooperation to support
action.
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Shared vision
• Emission reductions
• Resilience/reduced vulnerability
Action by
developed countries
Action by
developing countries
• On mitigation
• On adaptation
• On mitigation
• On adaptation
Input
to support
Elements of support
Output
to support
Enabling elements
Catalytic role of the UNFCCC
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Action by
developed countries
Action by
developing countries
• Measurable, reportable,
verifiable mitigation
action/commitments
• Nationally appropriate
mitigation actions supported
and enabled by technology,
financing and capacity building
• Implementation of action
on adaptation
• Action to support action by
developing countries
• Reducing emissions from
deforestation
• Implementation of action on
adaptation
National/international action
• Cooperative sectoral
approaches and sectorspecific actions on mitigation
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Elements of support
• Access to financial resources and support (FMR, TT)
• Positive incentives for mitigation and adaptation action
• Access to technology for developing countries (FMR, TT)
• Financing for adaptation (AF, GEF)
Enabling elements
• Accelerating deployment, diffusion and transfer of technology (TT)
• Technology R&D; technology cooperation in specific sectors (TT)
• Mobilization of public- and private-sector funding and investment
• Means of adaptation (1/CP.13, NWP, possibly 1/CP.10)
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Key aspects of the Bali Action Plan
• Economic growth and poverty eradication are
global priorities
• Deep cuts in global emissions are urgently
required
• Provision of incentives to engage all Parties
• Going beyond assistance: the role of business
and the private sector through right
investment decisions
• A long term vision
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What is needed?
• A comprehensive financial architecture:
– Mechanisms established within the
UNFCCC;
– Mechanisms enabled through the rules
under the Convention, but working
outside; and
– Financial tools created independently of
the Convention, but linked to it.
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What is needed?
• Climate change as a crosscutting challenge
• The UNFCCC as a catalyst for action
• Full mobilization of the international community
• Different actors = different roles
What is your role/ what can you
do?
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Thank you
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