Copenhagen Accord
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Title:
Copenhagen Accord draft decision -/CP.15
Creator:
United Nations
Disaster Risk Reduction Program, Florida International University (DRR/FIU) ( summary report )
Publisher:
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Publication Date:
Copyright Date:
2009
Language:
English

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Subjects / Keywords:
Climate change ( lcshac )
United Nations Climate Change Talks ( lcshac )
Genre:
non-fiction ( marcgt )

Notes

Summary:
This document presents climate change adaptation (CCA) policy positions agreed upon by the international community at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Copenhagen Accord (UN), like many accords preceding it, acknowledges that climate change impacts are one of the greatest threats to sustainable development around the world. Based on scientific studies, any increase in global temperatures above 2°C will prove devastating to current and long-term global development goals. Conference participants believe that this can only be prevented by working collectively to reduce global emissions. While every country has their part to play in this effort, it must be acknowledged that all countries do not bear the same level of responsibility for current climate trends nor the capacity to adapt to the risks pertinent to such trends. Therefore, the Accords acknowledge that the brunt of global emissions reduction efforts should fall on the most developed countries, ensuring that the development and poverty reduction goals of poor countries are not jeopardized. This is not to say that poor countries should not concern themselves with mitigation, but that the international community has to play a role in helping these vulnerable countries build their capacities to reduce emissions and to establish comprehensive CCA programmes. It proposes that the international community establish of a US$100 billion per annum Copenhagen Green Climate Fund to support capacity building, mitigation, and adaptation projects in the developing world, and a Technology Mechanism to facilitate the development and exchange of knowledge and technology from the developed to the developing world for such efforts. While the prescriptions outlined in the Copenhagen Accords are ideal, they must be complimented by some enforcement regime. Currently there is no sanctioning mechanism for developed states to follow through on the transfer of technology or funds for mitigation and adaptation, or for developing states to establish and implement mitigation and adaptation plans. Lack of political will in any of these areas can be a great hindrance to the implementation of the objectives outlined in this Accord. Therefore, the framers must establish binding resolutions if the Accord is to ever succeed. ( English )
Subject:
Climate Change ( English )
Citation/Reference:
(2009). Copenhagen Accord. United Nations, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
General Note:
CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES. Fifteenth session. Copenhagen, 7–18 December 2009. Agenda item 9. High-level segment

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