A New Rendezvous for the Climate: The United Nations Climate Change Conference, 1 - 12 December 2008, Poznan (Poland)

After the Bali Conference at the end of 2007, the international community is meeting again from 1 to 12 December in Poznan at the fourteenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Climate Change and the fourth Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.
This is a key meeting to assess implementation of these two agreements and, above all, prepare the ground for the future agreement on the climate regime beyond 2012, which must be reached in Copenhagen in December 2009.

GRET will attend this new round of negotiations as an observer. You can follow the negotiations in “Echoes from Poznan”, a newsletter that will report on progress in the discussions, especially as concerns financing the fight against climate change.
GRET will also represent Coordination SUD to disseminate its recommendations on the Poznan negotiations, elaborated jointly with the Action Climate Network – France.

> Documents available for downloading:

Download all issues of “Echoes from Poznan”

> "Echoes from Poznan" - n°4 (2008.12.12) | Only 352 Days Until Copenhagen (pdf - 100ko)
> "Echoes from Poznan" - n°3 (2008.12.10) | Looking for Significant Progress (pdf - 100ko)
> "Echoes from Poznan" - n°2 (2008.12.05) | Converging or Diverging? (pdf - 100ko)
> "Echoes from Poznan" - n°1 (2008.12.01) | The Dance Has Begun! (pdf - 100ko)

Download the recommendations of Coordination SUD and CAN-France:

> Recommendations (.pdf)

For more information on the next United Nations Climate Change Conference negotiations, see:

“Fight against climate change: Equity at the heart of the post-2012 regime agreement?”,
Preparatory document for the workshop, “Fighting Climate Change: What Multilateral Regime for Beyond 2012?”,
25/09/08, Bobigny (France)
> In French (.pdf)
> In English (.pdf)

“Equity and ambition: The essentials for the future climate regime beyond 2012”,
Summary of the workshop, “Fighting Climate Change: What Multilateral Regime for Beyond 2012?”,
25/09/08, Bobigny (France)
> In French (.pdf)
> In English (.pdf)

For more information on the principal results of the Bali Conference (December 2007), see:

“De l’urgence climatique à une réponse politique forte, une route sinueuse. Retours sur la Conférence des Nations Unies sur le changement climatique”, 3 – 15 December 2007, Bali
> In French (.pdf)

Useful Links:

> United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change website
> Climate Action Network - France’s website
> Coordination SUD’s website