Further round of preliminary negotiations for the UN World Climate Conference in Copenhagen
Bern, 25.09.2009 - The international community is due to reach a new climate agreement in Copenhagen (DK) in December 2009. Preparations for this ambitious goal include a further round of preliminary negotiations from 28 September to 9 October 2009 in Bangkok. Switzerland will be represented there with a delegation.
The UN World Conference in Copenhagen (DK) at the end of 2009 should come up with ways in which the international community can reduce the level of greenhouse gas emissions that are harmful to the climate and in which it can adjust to the climate change that is already taking place. Discussions will focus, firstly, on what efforts the newly industrialising countries (China, India, Brazil, etc.) are prepared to make to curb the increase of their emissions. Secondly, they will focus on the extent to which industrialised countries are prepared to support developing countries to reduce emissions and to make the necessary adjustments to respond to the changing climate conditions.
In order to achieve a result in Copenhagen, several formal and informal preliminary negotiations will take place in the run-up to the conference. The next formal round of talks is scheduled in Bangkok from 28 September to 9 October 2009. The goal of the conference is to structure the currently approximately 200-page negotiating text, to eliminate duplication of work and, where necessary, to shorten the text, in order to have a negotiable paper to work on in Copenhagen.
Switzerland is represented in Bangkok by a technical negotiation delegation, headed by Ambassador Thomas Kolly, Head of the International Affairs Division of the Federal Office for the Environment, FOEN.
Address for enquiries
Thomas Kolly, Head of the International Affairs Division, Federal Office for the Environment, FOEN, Head of the Swiss negotiating delegation, +41 (0)79 848 48 45
José Romero, Head of the Rio Conventions Section, FOEN, +41 (0)79 251 90 69
Publisher
Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications
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