This week, as part of my work as the Asian Coordinator and as a member of the COP15 Coordination team for Mediators Beyond Borders, I will be at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Climate Change Talks in Bangkok for the COP15 Treaty. We will discuss using mediation as a means for peaceful resolution in climate change disputes as well as adding language to that effect in the upcoming climate change treaty that is now being drafted. The new climate change treaty, COP15, will replace the Kyoto Protocol treaty. The convention is being held at the United Nations Conference Center in Bangkok September 28th through October 9, 2009.
"This is the penultimate negotiating session before COP 15 in Copenhagen in December, at which an ambitious and effective international climate change deal is to be clinched, " according to today's announcement on the UNFCCC web site.
The Kyoto Protocol sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. These amount to an average of five per cent against 1990 levels over the five-year period 2008-2012.
The Kyoto Protocol as explained by the UNFCCC:
"Under the Treaty, countries must meet their targets primarily through internal national measures. However, the Kyoto Protocol offers them an additional means of meeting their targets by way of three market-based mechanisms:
- Emissions trading – known as 'the carbon market'
- Clean development mechanism (CDM)
- Joint implementation (JI).
"The mechanisms help stimulate green investment and help the nations meet their emission targets in a cost-effective way."
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