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The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 7 and 18 December.
Dec 18, 2009 · Copenhagen Climate Change Conference - December 2009. The 15 th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC and the 5 th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol took place in Copenhagen and was hosted by the Government of Denmark.
Dec 18, 2009 · Fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15), December 2009. The COP 15 took place from 7 to 18 December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Agenda; Reports; Documents; Decisions; Mandated Events
Copenhagen Climate Change Conference - December 2009. Statements and resources. COP 15 and CMP 5. The United Nations Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen 2009, was hosted bythe Government of Denmark. It was comprised of the following sessions: Fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15)
- Outcomes of The U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen
- Copenhagen Accord
- Ad Hoc Working Group Under The Convention
- Ad Hoc Working Group Under The Protocol
15th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 15) December 7-18, 2009 Copenhagen, Denmark
A new political accord struck by world leaders at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen provides for explicit emission pledges by all the major economies – including, for the first time, China and other major developing countries – but charts no clear path toward a treaty with binding commitments. The basic terms of the Copenhagen Accord were brokered directly by President Obama and a handful of key developing country leaders on the final day of the conference, capping two weeks of...
The Copenhagen Accord is a political (as opposed to legal) agreement of a novel form. Formal decisions under the U.N. climate process are typically taken by consensus. As some parties opposed the accord, the decision entering it into the conference’s proceedings is not technically an acceptance of its substantive content by the Conference of the Pa...
Two years ago in Bali, the COP launched the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) as the forum for negotiating the “agreed outcome” to be adopted in Copenhagen. A set of decisions addressing the core elements of the Bali Action Plan, and a core decision tying them together, were not completed. While parties made modest prog...
A parallel Ad Hoc Working Group, the AWG-KP, was established under the Kyoto Protocol in 2005 to consider post-2012 emission targets for developed countries that are party to Kyoto. As with the AWG-LCA, its work remained uncompleted. The Kyoto parties adopted a decision forwarding the incomplete texts and calling on the AWG-KP to complete its work ...
The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 7 and 18 December.
The Copenhagen Accord is a document which delegates at the 15th session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change agreed to "take note of" at the final plenary on 18 December 2009.
