“The world really expects governments to take the next significant steps in building an effective global system to address climate change in Durban," said Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Speaking to reporters at UN headquarters ahead of the Conference of the Parties to UNFCCC in Durban from 28 November to 9 December, Ms. Figueres spelled out the four steps that the governments would be required to take at that meeting.
The first one is finding a solution to the issue of the second commitment to the Kyoto Protocol, an addition to the UNFCCC that contains legally binding measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and whose first commitment period is due to expire next year.
“There has to be a clear decision as to how the global collective effort - not only of industrialized countries - but how the global collective effort to reduce emissions will go forward and how that will be done in a transparent manner, with greater ambition growing over time," she said.
Secondly, Ms. Figueres said, governments will have to define the rules for the review of their climate change efforts to assess if they are good enough to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. Read the full report here.
Source: UN News Centre.
