15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15)
Protect the climate, protect our health
Website: http://en.cop15.dk/
“….Climate change endangers human health. COP15 represents the most important opportunity in decades to achieve international agreement on how to cut emissions of greenhouse gases deeply enough to reduce the likelihood of dangerous climate change. WHO wants an agreement that is strong and equitable and wants the health references in the agreement to be retained and strengthened.
WHO's key messages
· Besides environmental and economic damage, the ultimate impact of climate change represents a toll on our most precious resource - human lives and health.
· Significant co-benefits for population health and well-being can result from mitigation policies in sectors such as energy, transport and agriculture.
· The health sector will bear most of the burden of protecting and treating people that are negatively impacted by climate change, and will need support to play its critical role in relation to adaptation and resilience….”
ODI’s:
The world’s attention is turning to
Key resources prepared for this event
§ Beyond grants: climate finance in developing countries
Article - ODI Opinions 141, December 2009
§ Climate negotiations and development: how can low-income countries gain from a Climate Negotiation Framework Agreement?
ODI Working Papers 312, November 2009
December 2009
The Little Finance Book also aims to demystify some of the key concepts around financial mechanisms that currently hinder negotiations.
Charlie Parker, Jessica Brown, Jonathan Pickering, Emily Roynestad, Niki Mardas, Andrew W. Mitchell
PDF [91p.] at: http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/download/4619.pdf
Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy
Report:
Action and ambition for a global deal in Copenhagen
Nicholas Stern - 6th December 2009
Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy
Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment In collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Policy
Available online PDF [13p.] at: http://en.cop15.dk/files/pdf/ActionAndAmbitionForGlobalDealInCopenhagen.pdf
“….This paper sets out an assessment of the latest national positions regarding emission reduction targets and actions going into the forthcoming negotiations in
Recent work on the latest science and economics of 2°C shows that global emissions should be around 44Gt2 carbon dioxide equivalents in 2020 to be
consistent with a 50-50 chance of keeping temperature increase below 2°C.
This is in line with the earlier work that underpins the IPCC conclusions. Existing proposals from developed and developing countries, if delivered, constitute a big step towards a path consistent with the 2°C goal. Taking countries’ highest intentions would take the world to around 46Gt in 2020 a gap of 2Gt, which may be around 80% of the way from business as usual, depending on the interpretation of business as usual.
However, this analysis relies on the following key assumptions:
• Countries moving to or standing by their high intentions which may require the satisfaction of stipulated conditions concerning action from others
• Providing adequate finance and other support for high intentions in developing countries such as
Indonesia and Brazil; this should not count offset finance, as this risks double counting, or with offset finance but matched with more stringent targets.
• That surplus emissions allowances from previous commitment periods do not weaken mitigation effort
• A system of rules for how to account for the emissions released and absorbed in the
LULUCF sector (Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry) to ensure the environmental integrity of emission targets
But with the right kind of collaborative spirit it is clearly possible for countries to get to together so that the necessary strong commitments can be made….”
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