The Climate Change Conference Concludes in Bangkok
11th April 2011 by Madlen King
At the last minute of the six-day talks of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bangkok, attended by 2,000 participants from 175 countries, the Parties agreed on an agenda for the negotiations to be held in Bonn and elsewhere in the run-up to Durban at the end of the year.
The Governments agreed that this outcome will both address the implementation of the Cancun Agreements and issues that were not resolved at Cancun.
Addressing the media on the final day of the talks, Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres was confident that ‘governments can deliver further good results this year’, ‘provided every effort is made to compromise and show the necessary flexibility to achieve that goal’.
Discussions in Bangkok included not only a focus on what should happen with regard to the future of the Kyoto protocol but also how it will happen.
Whilst Japan and Russia reconfirmed their position in favour of a second commitment period under Kyoto, the position of the US remains much less positive in relation to any international binding agreement.
The 34th session of the UNFCCC Convention Subsidiary Bodies will convene and the fourteenth session of the AWG-LCA will resume in Bonn from the 6th to the 17th June.
Madlen King is the Global Head of Climate Change & Sustainability. She ensures the technical integrity of LRQA climate change and sustainability services and liaises with external bodies and governments on climate change. Within this role, Madlen is responsible for the service design, delivery and maintenance of accreditations for all GHG validation and verification schemes [...]