UN Climate Change Conference in Durban 2011

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UN Climate Change Conference 2011
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place Durban , South AfricaSouth AfricaSouth Africa 
date November 28 - December 9, 2011 (extended until December 11, 2011)
Attendees Members of the UNFCCC
Website www.cop17-cmp7durban.com/

The UN Climate Change Conference in Durban was the 17th conference of the states parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( COP 17) and at the same time the seventh meeting under the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 7). It took place from November 28 to December 11, 2011 in Durban , South Africa .

Results

Referring to the Bali roadmap and the agreement of the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun reaffirmed the participants that the temperature rise above pre-industrial conditions to 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius is to be limited and that for 2050, global emissions of greenhouse gases significantly need to be reduced. A timeframe must also be set from which emissions should decrease. Both the emission limits and the time frame are to be discussed at the 18th UN Climate Change Conference in Qatar in 2012. The voluntary climate targets decided in Cancún and documented in the document “FCCC / SB / 2011 / INF1 / Rev.1” should be made comparable; the states must provide the relevant information by March 5, 2012. Since the goals mentioned so far are not sufficient to limit the rise in temperature to 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius, the states have been asked to step up their efforts.

In addition, a working group was commissioned to prepare a “protocol, other legal instrument or agreed result with legal effect”, with which a comprehensive agreement on climate protection for all members will be concluded at the 21st Conference of the Contracting States in 2015 , which will come into force from 2020 should kick.

The Kyoto Protocol was extended from January 1, 2013 with a second commitment period. The aim is for the signatory states to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 25 to 40 percent by 2020. The industrialized countries involved should submit proposals for their reduction contribution by May 2012. The reduction contributions and the duration of the second commitment period (either until the end of 2017 or until the end of 2020) are to be decided at the 18th UN Climate Change Conference in Qatar .

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) decided in Cancún, which aims to support non-industrialized countries with climate finance and adaptation to the consequences of climate change , is to be made operational in 2012. Starting in 2020, he should have 100 billion US dollars a year; it remains to be seen how these are financed. For the protection of forests ( REDDplus ), the requirements of the UN climate conference in Cancún were specified.

Evaluation of the results

The South African presidency of the climate conference was satisfied: Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane concluded by saying: “We have made history”. The German Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen also spoke of a "great, groundbreaking success for global climate protection". As EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard and British Energy and Climate Protection Minister Chris Huhne said, this assessment is based primarily on the fact that all states have committed themselves to a legally binding, international agreement on climate protection; In particular, they consider the inclusion of the USA, China and India, which have not signed the Kyoto Protocol or, as non-industrialized countries, no reduction commitments, to be decisive progress. Alden Meyer from the Union of Concerned Scientists also pointed out that tough negotiations were still ahead of the planned agreement in 2015. Many observers also considered an important development that for the first time the poor countries particularly affected by climate change were not against the agreement, but fought for it alongside the EU states and see new coalitions emerging here.

On the one hand, critics of the result were annoyed by the fact that the legal form of the agreement was kept open; on the other hand, that the measures to be taken by 2020 will remain open for the time being. For Kumi Naidoo from Greenpeace International , the results of the UN climate negotiations so far are therefore unsuitable for limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.

Klaus Töpfer , former UNEP Director, said that climate policy had not made progress in terms of content, but had made structural progress. Now it is up to Germany to demonstrate that the energy transition and climate protection are economically and technically feasible. The key to this is the expansion of renewable energies in Germany. "Germany's duty now is to prove whether the world's fourth-largest economic power, which is so dependent on exports and energy-intensive industries, can remain competitive with such an energy policy."

See also

Web links

Commons : 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Claudia Ehrenstein: New round in the fight against global warming - climate conference in Durban to bring about a breakthrough in the desired climate agreement . In: Die Welt Online , November 28, 2011. Accessed November 27, 2012. 
  3. ↑ Climate conference adopts plan for new agreement . In: Die Welt Online 2012 , December 11, 2011. Accessed November 27, 2012. 
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  5. ^ "Establishment of an Ad-hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action" (PDF; 126 kB). UNFCC document, accessed December 12, 2011.
  6. ^ “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 December 12, 2011.
  7. ^ "Green Climate Fund. Report of the Transitional Committee. Advance unedited version ” (PDF; 196 kB). UNFCC document, accessed December 12, 2011.
  8. ↑ “REDD +: Safeguards and reference levels” (PDF; 123 kB). UNFCC document, accessed December 12, 2011.
  9. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung December 12, 2011: States agree on a timetable for climate agreements.
  10. ↑ Röttgen: Great success for climate protection . BMU press release, accessed on December 11, 2011.
  11. ↑ BBC: Reaction to UN climate deal . BBC, accessed December 11, 2011.
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  13. ↑ The West must not play itself out Klaus Töpfer in an interview with Spiegel online; see also DIE ZEIT No. 51/2011: Climate policy is growing up (Frank Drieschner)
  14. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung December 12, 2011: Farce von Durban.
  15. ↑ Ulli Kulke: Summit in Durban - climate agreement only preserves the beautiful appearance . In: Die Welt Online , December 11, 2011. Retrieved November 27, 2012. 
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  17. ↑ Ulli Kulke: Conference in Durban - Climate critics are publicly as good as mouthful . In: Die Welt Online , November 28, 2011. Accessed November 27, 2012. 
  18. ↑ Spiegel Online: "The West must not play up". December 15, 2011