UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun 2010

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UN Climate Change Conference 2010
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place Cancun , MexicoMexicoMexico 
date November 29 - December 10, 2010
Attendees Members of the UNFCCC

The UN Climate Change Conference in Cancún took place from November 29th to December 10th 2010 in Cancún , Mexico . It was the 16th conference of the states parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and was the sixth meeting under the Kyoto Protocol .

expectations

The expectations of the conference were rather low from the start. At the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen the previous year, only a declaration of intent was formulated and no concrete measures were adopted. Although goals were defined, namely that the global mean temperature should not rise by more than two degrees compared to the pre-industrial era (“ two degree target ”), no legally binding measures were taken.

Among other things, regulations for the protection of the rainforests and a climate fund , which should financially support developing countries in climate protection , were expected .

course

Bolivia's government refused to agree to a “compromise” on climate protection celebrated by the leading industrial nations. Among other things, President Evo Morales had called for a UN tribunal for “climate justice”, an “alliance of governments and peoples” and the renunciation of “luxury and waste” and called on the world community to “save the planet” and, as the primary goal, to reduce the CO 2 emissions that the most important industrial nations would block to this day. Contrary to the practice of the UN conferences, the conference president and foreign minister of the host Mexico, Patricia Espinosa Cantellano , merely “took note” of the Bolivians' veto and declared the final declaration to be adopted without consensus.

Results

Speech from Ban Ki-moon

At the conference, binding international measures for climate protection were agreed for the first time . The industrialized countries recognized that carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced by 25 to 40 percent by 2020. In addition, they committed to meeting the voluntary targets set the previous year under the Copenhagen Accord ; these are documented in the document "FCCC / SB / 2011 / INF1 / Rev.1". In order to achieve this, they were asked to increase the financial resources for climate protection. It was negotiated that countries with large forest areas (e.g. Russia ) can use them as carbon stores.

The goal of stopping global warming by more than two degrees was recognized and a possibility of lowering this mark to 1.5 degrees Celsius was agreed. To this end, the federal states should develop specific timetables for reducing emissions and develop their own national programs.

In order to relieve the regions particularly affected by the warming, it was agreed to set up a climate fund as emergency aid with an annual volume of 10 billion dollars. For long-term climate finance , it was decided to set up a fund ( Green Climate Fund - GCF), from which climate protection measures in developing countries in particular are to be financed. It is planned that the GCF will be fully operational from 2013 and be able to start work. The industrialized countries are providing the GCF with funds that are expected to grow to 100 billion dollars per year from 2020. In addition to financial aid, the developing countries are to receive technical developments for climate protection through a technology center run by the United Nations .

In order to reduce emissions from deforestation and the destruction of forests ( REDD-plus ), the individual states were asked to draw up national implementation plans, reports on the impact of their forests on greenhouse gas emissions and transparent monitoring systems on the extent and condition of their forests.

See also

Web links

Commons : 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Climate Summit in Cancún: Big Goals - Lower Expectations. In: tagesschau.de. November 29, 2010; Archived from the original on December 1, 2010 ; Retrieved January 7, 2011 .
  2. ^ Frank Kürschner-Pelkmann: Cancún Climate Summit: Muted expectations, but big tasks. (No longer available online.) In: Fighting Climate Change. German Society for the United Nations eV (DGVN), November 28, 2010, archived from the original on November 19, 2012 ; Retrieved January 7, 2011 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.klimawandel-bekaempfen.de
  3. ^ Benjamin Beutler: Climate scapegoat Bolivia. In: amerika21. December 12, 2010, accessed September 15, 2011 .
  4. What the negotiations in Cancun have achieved: "Progress has been made at the climate summit". In: tagesschau.de. December 13, 2010, accessed January 7, 2010 .
  5. Reuters: UN completes draft of green climate fund: official , October 21, 2011.
  6. United Nations: Transitional Committee for the design of the Green Climate Fund
  7. http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2010/cop16/eng/07a01.pdf Cancun Agreement (Decision 1 / CP.16), see III C.