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Climate Change: More clarity on the architecture needed for action

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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics

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United Nations, New York, 9 October 2009 - The latest UN Climate Change negotiations have resulted in more clarity on the architecture needed for action -- but decisions on finance and mid-term targets remain outstanding. 

That's according to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which wrapped up today a two-week negotiating session in Bangkok.
 
Yvo de Boer, the Executive Secretary of the Convention, said that bold leadership must open the roadblocks around the key issues of reduction targets and finance in order for negotiators to complete their work. It is time now to step back from self-interest and let the common interest prevail, he added. 

De Boer also said that countries were leaving this negotiating session with a much clearer idea of the options before them. He stressed that the willingness they had shown to discuss a concrete climate action architecture must now be turned into achievable, believable decisions. 

There are now five days of climate change negotiations left before the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December. 

The last session will take place from 2 to 6 November, in Barcelona.

UNFCCC website:
http://unfccc.int/meetings/intersessional/bangkok_09/items/4967.php

UN Climate Change website:
http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/climatechange/gateway

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