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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.
The 2009 conference was the 15th session of the UNFCCC COP and the 5th session of the Kyoto Protocol COP, hosted by Denmark. It discussed the implementation of the Convention and the Protocol, as well as long-term cooperative action and further commitments.
Dec 18, 2009 · 07 - 18 Dec. 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. Other sessions at this conference. CMP 5. SBSTA 31. SBI 31. AWG-KP 10.
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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 ...
A summary of the 2009 U.N. Climate Summit in Copenhagen, where world leaders struck a political accord with emission pledges but no binding treaty. Learn about the key elements, outcomes, and challenges of the Copenhagen Accord and the Green Climate Fund.
Nov 10, 2009 · What is the Copenhagen climate change summit? The UN meeting is the deadline for thrashing out a successor to the Kyoto protocol, with the aim of preventing dangerous global warming.
The UNFCCC website provides information and resources on the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in December 2009, which resulted in the Copenhagen Accord and 23 decisions by the COP and the CMP. The web page also includes webcast coverage, statements, and reports from the conference sessions and events.
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Dec 30, 2009 · December 7 – December 18, 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark was the venue for the 15th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as the 15th Conference of the Parties — or COP 15.
