Tag: Bonn ADP2

NGO experts comment on close of the first climate talks of the year

Submitted by rvoorhaar on May 3, 2013 - 4:44am

Bonn, Germany - May 3, 2013: NGO experts from the world’s largest network of NGOs working on climate change will brief the media on today at 14.30 on the outcomes of the year’s first session of the United Nations climate negotiations.

Commenting on key developments of the week will be including growing coalescence around how countries' differing responsibilities and capacities to deal with climate change can and should be measured and the missing urgency around efforts to reduce emissions reductions before 2020:

Mohamed Adow from Christian Aid
Jan Kowalzig from Oxfam Germany
Julie-Anne Richards from Climate Action Network International

What: NGO experts comment on the outcome of the first climate negotiations of the year

When: 14.30, Friday, May 3rd. The press conference will also be webcast live here: http://unfccc4.meta-fusion.com/kongresse/adp02/templ/ovw_live.php?id_kongressmain=241

Where: United Nations Campus, Langer Eugen (Room 2105) Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10, 53113 Bonn, Germany.

Contact:

For more information or for one-on-one interviews with the NGO experts, please contact Climate Action Network International’s communications coordinator Ria Voorhaar on +49 (0) 157 317 35568 or rvoorhaar@climatenetwork.org.

Climate Action Network (CAN) is a global network of over 800 NGOs working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels

Tags:

Bonn ADP2

Organization:

AWG-ADP

Related Event:

ADP Second Session 2013

CAN Intervention in the ADP2 Bonn Intersessional: Opening Plenary, 29 April 2013

Submitted by Sam Harris on April 29, 2013 - 7:06am

Climate Action Network Intervention during Opening Plenary

29 April 2013

Thank you Co-chairs,

My name is Liz Gallagher and I am speaking on behalf of Climate Action Network.

Climate Change is the single greatest threat faced by humanity, and halting it is our greatest challenge. If climate impacts are becoming visible in developed countries, in much of the developing world they are reaching a breaking point.

Just as we approach the 400 ppm threshold, we are currently on track to more than quadruple current levels of warming by the end of this century – and yet we know adapting to a 4°C world is not possible.

Both political will and ambition will need to be dramatically increased across the board if the 2015 agreement is to be effective. One method to demonstrate this is for parties to work tirelessly on pre-2020 ambition.

A shared understanding on equity is the key to unlocking the 2015 agreement. A successful outcome demands targets based both on science and on equity. A spectrum approach to this problem that fails to include equity will not deliver ambition and risks jeopardizing the negotiations. What we need is an "equity spectrum" based on the Convention principles.

Thank you co-chairs