Bali Climate Change Conference: Outcomes and Implications
The Institute of Policy Studies in the School of Government Invites you to a Seminar Presented by Dr Adrian Macey The Bali Climate Change Conference: Outcomes and Implications During the first two weeks of December 2007, important United Nations climate change meetings were held in Bali, Indonesia. These included: • the 13th Conference of the Parties (COP13) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); • the 3rd Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP3); • the continuation of the 4th session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex 1 Paries under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG4); and • the 27th sessions of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation and the Subsidiary Body on Scientific and Technological Advice. The Bali Climate Change Conference concluded with a decision to launch a new, two-year negotiation on long term cooperative action under the UNFCCC. This new negotiation will run in parallel with the existing negotiation on further commitments after 2012 for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol. The negotiations over the next two years will shape the future global response to climate change. Dr Adrian Macey is New Zealand’s Climate Change Ambassador, representing the country in climate change negotiations. He returned from Paris in 2006, where he was New Zealand’s Ambassador to France and the OECD. He was previously Director of Trade Negotiations Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Ambassador to Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. Friday 8th February 2008 12:30 – 2:00 Rutherford House LT 1 Bunny Street, Wellington RSVP to barbara.gillespie@vuw.ac.nz
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