International climate change negotiations are underway in Bonn, Germany. These negotiations, formally known as an "intercessional," are running from June 1 to 12 and are intended to lay the groundwork for countries to form a binding agreement to tackle the climate crisis. The agreement is expected to be finalized during further negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark, later this year.
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Steve Kretzmann, Oil Change International +1-202-497-1033
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Michelle Chan, Friends of the Earth-US, +1 202-427-3000, mchan@foe.org
The two-week climate conference in Copenhagen this past December produced the Copenhagen Accord. The Accord is a two-and-a-half page document that emerged in the final days of the summit, containing an inadequate goal of keeping global temperature increases below 2˚C and no mechanism for achieving this goal. As of February 4, 2010, 56 countries had submitted individual pledges for greenhouse gas reductions to the secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). But in the aggregate, these pledges are not enough to hold off catastrophic climate changes.
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COPENHAGEN, DENMARK -- On the day that the UN Climate talks officially closed, Friends of the Earth International warned against the false conclusion that the UN Climate Conference has adopted the 'Copenhagen Accord.'
The Copenhagen Accord announced on December 18 by U.S. President Barack Obama was not adopted by delegates to the United Nations climate conference here. Instead, delegates merely 'noted' the agreement's existence, giving it no force whatsoever.
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Nick Berning, +45 30 48 31 73
Elizabeth Bast, +45 61 27 63 06
Erich Pica, +45 30 74 47 09
(in U.S.) Michelle Chan, +1 415 544 0790 ext. 214
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, December 16, 2009 – Friends of the Earth International denounced today an attempt by the Danish Prime Minister to derail the U.N negotiations in favour of rich countries and condemned the exclusion of critical civil society voices -- including Friends of the Earth -- from the UN Climate conference.
