UN Climate Conference in Doha 2012
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Conference President Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, left General Secretary Christiana Figueres
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| place | Doha , Qatar
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| date | November 26th to December 8th, 2012 |
| Attendees | Members of the UNFCCC |
The UN Climate Change Conference in Doha took place from November 26th to December 8th, 2012 in Doha , the capital of the Arab Emirates, Qatar . It was the 18th conference of the states parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( COP 18) and at the same time the eighth meeting under the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 8). Among other things, it should serve to further develop a regulation to follow up the Kyoto Protocol .
The Kyoto Protocol had already been extended at the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban in 2011 with a second commitment period from January 1, 2013. The duration of the second commitment period (either until the end of 2017 or the end of 2020) and the reduction contributions of the industrialized countries involved should be decided at this conference in Doha.
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Since the conference was convened in the state whose inhabitants produce the most CO 2 per capita , criticism had already been voiced in advance. To set an example, the government of Qatar announced on December 1 that production of solar cells in Ras Laffan, north of Doha, would start as early as next year. The contract for the approximately one billion US dollars (798 million euros) factory was signed on May 29, 2012.
Under pressure from host Qatar, an agreement was reached on December 8, 2012 - one day after the planned end of the conference - to extend the Kyoto Protocol ("Kyoto II") until 2020. In a controversial voting procedure, at the end of the conference, the President of the Climate Summit, Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, called up the compromise proposals in quick succession and declared them to be adopted if there was no opposition. This prevented the summit from failing. Australia, the 27 EU countries and other European countries, which are responsible for around 11–13% of global CO 2 emissions, will take part in the second commitment period - Russia, Canada, Japan and New Zealand have announced their withdrawal.
A roadmap for an internationally binding climate protection agreement from 2020 was also adopted. The funding of the Green Climate Fund failed. However, the location of the Green Climate Fund in Songdo , Incheon, South Korea, which was provisionally set in spring 2012 , was confirmed.
German media described the result as a "mini compromise".
See also
Web links
- Doha Climate Change Conference - November 2012. Conference website on unfccc.int.
Individual evidence
- ^ Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol at its sixteenth session, advance unedited version . (PDF; 277 kB) UNFCC document, accessed on December 1, 2012.
- ↑ cop18.qa ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Solar silicon from the desert: Qatar Solar Technologies secures financing for a polysilicon factory in the Ras Laffan industrial estate. (No longer available online.) In: SolarServer. May 30, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 9, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ UNFCCC (ed.): Decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol: Decision 1 / CMP . 8 . February 28, 2013 ( unfccc.int [PDF; 731 kB ; accessed on March 14, 2017]).
- ↑ a b Kyoto Protocol extended: Mini-Compromise at the World Climate Summit at faz.net, December 8, 2012 (accessed December 8, 2012).
- ↑ Green Climate Fund on the UNFCCC Secretariat website , accessed December 26, 2012.
- ↑ World Climate Summit in Doha: Climate Conference extends Kyoto Protocol until 2020 at sueddeutsche.de, December 8, 2012 (accessed December 9, 2012).
