UNFCC Press Release, Chris Innis
The next round of UN-sponsored global climate change negotiations will begin in Bonn, Germany, on 2 June 2008. A major focus of the UN Climate Change Talks will be on a strengthened and effective international climate change deal, to be completed in Copenhagen next year.
Around 2,000 people, including government representatives, participants from business and industry, environmental organizations and research institutions are expected to attend the two-week meeting. This constitutes a record number of participants for the annual Bonn sessions of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
On the one hand, the Bonn Climate Change Talks will take forward the new negotiation process on strengthened international action against climate change, as agreed at Bali in 2007. Workshops in this context will take place on the issues of adaptation, finance and technology transfer.
Around 2,000 people, including government representatives, participants
from business and industry, environmental organizations and research
institutions are expected to attend the two-week meeting.
On the other hand, talks on further commitments for Parties to the Kyoto Protocol will include considering the possible tools available to industrialised countries to reach future emission reductions. Furthermore, the Bonn climate change will advance ongoing work on technology, adaptation, reducing emissions from deforestation and capacity building in developing countries.
“Time is incredibly short to design a future agreement that will significantly step up action on adaptation, successfully halt the increase in global emissions within the next 10-15 years, dramatically cut back emissions by 2050, and do so in a way that is economically viable and politically equitable worldwide,” said Yvo de Boer, UNFCCC Executive Secretary. “We urgently need to make progress in Bonn, seeing that there is only slightly more than a year to come up with a set of drafts for a ratifiable deal at Copenhagen.  ”
All the meetings will take place at the Hotel Maritim, Bonn, Germany. The UNFCCC will give a curtain-raiser press briefing on Sunday, 1 June (12:30), an opening press conference on Monday, 2 June (13:15) and a closing press conference at the conclusion of the meeting on Friday, 13 June (from 18:00). Parties and non-governmental organisations will also give press briefings throughout the meeting, the times and locations of which will be posted on the UNFCCC website closer to the date. Media must have prior accreditation in order to attend UNFCCC and other briefings.
Provisional agendas for the meetings:
http://unfccc.int/meetings/sb28/items/4328.php
Overview of side-events:
http://regserver.unfccc.int/seors/reports/events_list.html
Further information for the press is available at:
http://unfccc.int/meetings/sb28/press/items/4348.php
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