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NGOs Unveil a Benchmark Global Climate Treaty
What is happening in Copenhagen?
In December 2009, countries party to the UN Climate Treaty will meet in Copenhagen to agree a new deal to address climate change. The agreement will focus on the period following 2012, when the first commitment period (2008-2012) for reducing emissions under the Kyoto Protocol expires. What is the U.S doing for a new global climate deal? Learn More
On Monday 8, June, 2009, Climate change experts from WWF, David Suzuki Foundation, Greenpeace, Germanwatch, IndyACT – the League of Independent Activists, and the National Ecological Centre of Ukraine unveiled their blueprint for a legally binding Copenhagen agreement. This will serve as the benchmark for governments negotiating a new climate deal this year and shows how major differences between rich and poor nations can be overcome.
The 160-page “Copenhagen Climate Treaty”, which will be distributed to negotiators from 192 states, took some of the world’s most experienced climate NGO’s almost a year to write and contains a full legal text covering all the main elements needed to provide the world with a fair and ambitious agreement that keeps climate change impacts below the unacceptable risk levels identified by most scientists.
A Copenhagen Climate Treaty: Version 1.0. A Proposal for an Amended Kyoto Protocol and a new Copenhagen Protocol by Members of the NGO Community
- Legal text: actual treaty text of Copenhagen agreement proposal
- Narrative text: guide for the Copenhagen agreement proposal
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The document describes the path the world must be on to avoid catastrophic climate change, recognizing that global temperature increase must be kept well below 2 degrees Celsius. It sets a global cap on emissions – a carbon budget – and explains in detail how both industrialized and developing countries can contribute to the safety of the planet and its people, according to their means and responsibilities and shows how the poorest and most vulnerable on the planet can be protected and compensated.
A global revolution in technology and technology cooperation is needed to accelerate the pace of innovation, increase the scale of demonstration and deployment, and ensure that all countries have access to affordable climate friendly technologies.
Get the inside story
Watch the WWF Climate team video diary and read their blog as they report live from the second round of UN negotiations in Bonn. This is the first time real negotiating text is on the table, the basis for governments to start drafting the final agreement. Watch here
Climate change is not just a human tragedy but changes the very basis of survival on this planet. We know that our window of opportunity for limiting climate change is closing and therefore unprecedented international cooperation and commitment is required.
Learn more about how WWF is addressing the threat of the changing climate change
- Pushing for Global Action in the U.S.
- WWF’s Climate for Life year-long campaign to bring the world’s attention to the impacts of global climate change in the Eastern Himalayas.
- Arctic change, global threat – watch the video
- Helping people, places and species adapt
- Saving Forests, Saving Carbon
- Climate Savers: How Businesses Fit In
- What you can do
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