Climate Live
Daily updates: United Nations' International Climate Change Conference Durban
(28 November - 9 December 2011)
A team from the Linklaters Environment and Climate Change Group will be attending the United Nations’ international climate change negotiations COP 17/CMP 7 at Durban, South Africa.
Our team will be tweeting up-to-date news from the conference via our Twitter feed here, and providing more in-depth analysis via our blog (blog posts can be accessed via the Updates box on the right).
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As Parties to the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, private sector and civil society observors dutifully descend on Durban for another round of climate change negotiations, some participants are arguing that the political will to secure a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, with binding emissions reduction targets, has evaporated and the world must look elsewhere for solutions. Even incremental progress will be critical to maintain momentum on tackling climate change. Parties are hopeful for developments in the following negotiating areas, which we will be tracking closely:
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A roadplan towards settling the legal form and content of a successor agreement to Kyoto;
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Progress on the design and development of the Green Climate Fund;
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Agreement on the implementation of REDD and REDD+;
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Reform to the Clean Development Mechanism; and
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Operationalising the NAMA registry, Adaptation Committee, Technology Executive Committee.
See our previous updates from the Cancun conference
