The Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban
Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) has started today the sixth part of its
second session in Bonn, Germany. The meeting will be ended on 25 October 2014.
This is the last round of negotiations on a
new climate agreement ahead of this year’s UN climate conference in Lima, Peru,
which will be held in December for two weeks
Delegates representing some 190
countries are expected to work towards getting clarity on what each country
will contribute towards the agreement in order to achieve the goal of keeping
the rise in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius.
The Bonn session is taking place
against the backdrop of the climate summit in New York in September, which was
preceded by a “People’s Climate March” through Manhattan that attracted some
400,000 protesters
According to UN climate chief Christiana
Figueres, the week-long session here “will give governments the important
opportunity to further develop a cohesive text” for such a deal, which is
expected to be finalised in Paris at the end of next year.
Ms Figueres said the elements of a
draft agreement “must be clear” before the Lima conference so that the text
could serve as the basis for negotiating a new “universal climate agreement”,
which is set to be “inked in Paris” in mid-December, 2015.
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