A first assessment of the climate conference in Lima : COP20 moves at a snail's pace on the road to Paris 2015
- The 2014 United Nations Climate Change Conference had been scheduled from 1 to 12 December in Lima/Peru. While in the run-up to the conference, China and the US in a surprise bilateral move had announced plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions that exceeded expectations, the conference was characterised once again by a deep division between key players from the former so-called "developed" and "developing" world. The negotiations thus took 32 hours longer than planned and ended on Sunday morning at 1.22 am. More importantly, the conference failed almost completely to resolve the tasks it was supposed to do in order to prepare the last round of negotiations before next year's conference in Paris 2015, which is supposed to deliver aThe 2014 United Nations Climate Change Conference had been scheduled from 1 to 12 December in Lima/Peru. While in the run-up to the conference, China and the US in a surprise bilateral move had announced plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions that exceeded expectations, the conference was characterised once again by a deep division between key players from the former so-called "developed" and "developing" world. The negotiations thus took 32 hours longer than planned and ended on Sunday morning at 1.22 am. More importantly, the conference failed almost completely to resolve the tasks it was supposed to do in order to prepare the last round of negotiations before next year's conference in Paris 2015, which is supposed to deliver a comprehensive future climate agreement. A team of researchers from the Wuppertal Institute attended the conference and have compiled a first assessment of the results.…
Document Type: | Peer-Reviewed Article |
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Author: | Hermann E. Ott, Christof Arens, Lukas HermwilleORCiDGND, Florian Mersmann, Wolfgang ObergasselORCiDGND, Hanna Wang-Helmreich |
URN (citable link): | https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-58465 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Source Title (English): | Environmental law and management |
Volume: | 26 |
Issue: | 5 |
First Page: | 151 |
Last Page: | 158 |
Divisions: | Energie-, Verkehrs- und Klimapolitik |
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Dewey Decimal Classification: | 320 Politik |
OpenAIRE: | OpenAIRE |
Licence: | In Copyright - Urheberrechtlich geschützt |