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Denmark invites 191 leaders to UN climate talks
Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen on Thursday sent invitations to 191 world leaders to attend next month's UN climate conference in Copenhagen.
AP/Nanet Poulsen 12/11/2009 18:05
The invitations, signed by Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, were dispatched through diplomatic channels.
"Your personal attendance is a pivotal contribution to a successful outcome" of the Dec. 7-18 conference, says the letter from Løkke Rasmussen, who will chair the talks aimed at reaching a new global accord to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.
The high-level meeting of leaders at Copenhagen is expected to start Dec. 16.
"Many countries have already announced or passed significant legislation to reduce emission levels and adapt to the negative effects of climate change," Løkke Rasmussen says in the letter.
At least 40 leaders have said they plan to attend the conference, which follows two years of tough UN-led negotiations to draft a new climate change agreement.
Among leaders attending are British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende.
President Barack Obama has said he may come if a deal appears possible and his presence would help clinch it. A US delegate to the climate talks, Jane Lubchenco, said Thursday in Copenhagen that Obama believes an agreement next month is "critically important" and that he is "actively considering" attending the meeting.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil has indicated he might come to the conference, and a spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she is keeping the date open.
Meanwhile, the European Union — which has said it hopes to lead global climate policy — says it will meet or exceed its target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 8 percent below 1990 levels by the year 2012.
Europe "can be relied on to deliver" its promised reductions, EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas says. By 2020, the 27-member EU has vowed to slash emissions by 20 percent, and says it will step that up to 30 percent if the United States, China and other nations also pledge ambitious cuts in carbon dioxide emissions.
(Photo of US President Barack Obama and Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen during Obama's visit to Copenhagen earlier this year: Liselotte Sabroe/Scanpix)
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In 2012 the Kyoto Protocol to prevent climate changes and global warming runs out. To keep the process on the line there is an urgent need for a new climate protocol. At the conference in Copenhagen 2009 the parties of the UNFCCC meet for the last time on government level before the climate agreement need to be renewed.
Climate friendly transport at tbe Bella Centre
Climate friendly city car in front of the Bella Center
Therefore the Climate Conference in Copenhagen is essential for the worlds climate and the Danish government and UNFCCC is putting hard effort in making the meeting in Copenhagen a success ending up with a Copenhagen Protocol to prevent global warming and climate changes.
The Climate Conference will take place in the Bella Center. The conference centre is placed not far from Copenhagen and near the Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup.
Governmental representatives from 170 countries are expected to be in Copenhagen in the days of the conference accompanied by other governmental representatives, NGO's, journalists and others. In total 8000 people are expected to Copenhagen in the days of the climate meeting.
Connie Hedegaard, minister for climate and energy
Minister for Climate and Energy, Connie Hedegaard. Photo: Jakob Dall
The host of the meeting in Copenhagen is the government of Denmark represented by Connie Hedegaard, the Danish minister of Climate and Energy and Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. The official sekretariat is placed in connection to The Prime Ministers Office in Copenhagen. Originally the hosting of the climate conference was initiated by the former Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Former Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Photo: Hung Tien Vu
The Danish Government has decided that not only the subject of the conference should be focused on the climate but also the conference itself. Among other initiatives the organizers work on mounting af windmill near the Bella Center to produce climate friendly electricity for the conference.
The conference in Copenhagen is the 15th conference of parties (COP15) in the Framework Convention on Climate Change. The recent meeting in United Nations Climate Change Conferences was held in December 2007 in Bali.
Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Prime Minister in Denmark
Danish Prime Minister
Lars Løkke Rasmussen
The secretary for the climate conferences is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC - based in the German city Bonn.
An important part of the scientific background for the political decisions taken on the conferences is made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The IPCC is Established to provide the decision-makers and others interested in climate change with an objective source of information about climate change. IPCC is a scientific intergovernmental body set up by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In 2007 the IPCC received the Nobel Peace Price).
The Climate Conference in Copenhagen is organized in cooperation between the Ministry of Climate and Energy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Finance and the Prime Minister's Office.
The address of the secretariat for the Climate Conference is:
COP15
The Climate Secretariat
The Prime Minister's Office
Christiansborg
Prins Jørgens Gård 11
1218 København K
Denmark
Tel (+45) 33 92 33 00, Fax (+45) 33 11 16 65
The Official secretariat of the 15th Climate Conference in Copenhagen.
Copenhagen Climate Network
Ehlersvej 11
2900 Hellerup
Denmark
Tel (+45) 39 48 18 10, Fax (+45) 39 48 18 01
A Danish network that will underpin the Copenhagen Climate Summit, thus making the 2009 UN climate summit a success for the benefit of sustainable climate policy. The network will use the period before, under and after the Copenhagen Climate Summit to establish networks among businesses, individuals and organisations supporting a climate policy focusing on the environment.
Copenhagen Climate Council
c/ Mandag Morgen
Valkendorsgade 13
Box 1127
1009 Copenhagen K
Tel (+45) 33 93 93 23, Fax (+45) 33 14 13 94
An initiative founded in May 2007 by a group of business leaders and scientists with the aim of helping make the case for a new global climate treaty that will come into force when the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol comes to an end in 2012.
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WORLD LEADERS DEAL A BODY BLOW TO TO THE COPENHAGAN SUMMIT
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Left to right: Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak, Myanmar's Prime Minister General Thein Sein, Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, US President Barack Obama, and Thailand's Prime Minister Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva
(Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty)
Left to right: Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak, Myanmar's Prime Minister General Thein Sein, Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, US President Barack Obama, and Thailand's Prime Minister Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva shake hands during the group photograph at the ASEAN-US leaders meeting in Singapore on November 15, 2009, on the sidelines of The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit. US President Barack Obama held an unprecedented group summit with Southeast Asian leaders, including the prime minister of regional pariah Myanmar. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told Obama and his colleagues from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations that he wanted "to welcome all of you to the first ASEAN-US leaders' meeting"
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President Obama and other world leaders at a trade summit in Singapore have accepted that next month's Copenhagen summit is now unlikely to produce a legally binding deal on emissions, with agreement on climate change set to be deferred until the middle of 2010.
A meeting of 19 leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum, which included Mr Obama and Chinese president Hu Jintao, agreed that the forthcoming United Nations summit in Copenhagen should merely aim to make progress on cutting emissions.
Instead they backed a face-saving proposal from Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, who jetted in at short notice after climate change was belatedly inserted into the agenda for Singapore, aimed at forging a political statement of intent at the December meeting.
Complex negotiations towards a legally enforceable successor to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which expires in 2012, would then continue to work out differences between rich nations and developing countries including China, with agreement delayed until a meeting in either Germany or Mexico in mid 2010.
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John Key, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, said after today's meeting ended that it had become apparent that it was “highly unlikely” the Copenhagen talks would reach a legally binding agreement on emissions next month.
Others expressed similar disappointment. “I don’t think the negotiations have proceeded in such a way that many of the leaders thought it was likely that we were going to achieve a final agreement in Copenhagen,” said Michael Froman, a senior climate change negotiator for the United States.
In another setback for environmental campaigners, the same world leaders - who between them represent nearly two-thirds of world economic output - significantly watered down their public commitment on greenhouse gases. What had previously been a numerical statement of climate change goals for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum became a bland expression of hope for an “ambitious outcome” from Copenhagen.
Several officials privately pointed the finger of blame towards China for causing the communique to become so diluted, an outcome they described as “disappointing”. The Apec leaders were joined yesterday in Singapore by Mr Obama, who flew in from Tokyo just hours after agreeing with the Japanese prime minister that the two countries would aim to reduce emissions by 80 percent by the middle of the century.
In one early draft version of today’s official communique from the Apec forum in Singapore, the 21-nation group said that “global emissions will need to be reduced to 50 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050.” But the subsequent, much weaker version of the communique was deliberately non-committal on the issue, stating only that “we believe that global emissions will need to peak over the next few years, and be substantially reduced by 2050, recognising that the timeframe for peaking will be longer in developing economies”.
Diane McFadzien, spokes person of the WWF Global Climate Initiative, said: “Heads of States must go beyond simply discussing the problems, they have to start solving them. Deleting rather than strengthening emission reduction targets in their Leaders Declarations - like they did here in Singapore - is certainly not a solution.”
Although the decision to remove the numerical targets was supposedly a collective one, Chinese officials made it clear that they viewed the original Apec draft communique as “controversial”.
“If we put it in this (final) statement, I think it would disrupt the negotiation process,” said, Yi Xianliang, a Chinese foreign ministry official involved with the country’s impending climate change negotiations in Copenhangen.
Officials from other Apec member states suspect that the softened language is likely to remain in place when the final communique from the week-long forum is released later today. Part of the disappointment may arise from what the Apec bloc represents - 60 per cent of world greenhouse emissions, and, in China and the United States, the two largest producers of greenhouse gasses.
The Apec meeting is also the last major leadership gathering ahead of the Copenhagen summit in early December, and it previously seemed possible that the forum would set a positive tone for that meeting.
In the event, one of the strongest commitments came on Friday from Brazil, which vowed to reduce emissions to 1990 levels in 10 years. Although Brazil is not part of Apec, its South American neighbours Mexico, Peru and Chile are and may be pressured to follow the lead of the region’s largest economy.
Hopes that the Copenhagen summit might produce a clear commitment to fighting climate change have been battered by persistent disagreement between developed and developing economies over precisely the issue of numerical emissions targets. Some have suggested that a two-tier system may provide the only viable solution.
Ed Miliband, the UK's Climate Change Secretary, today urged Mr Obama to change his mind and commit to attending the two-week Copenhagen conference.
“I think as many leaders as possible - including President Obama - do need to come there because that will make a difference in the end to the kind of deal we want,” said Mr Miliband.
“His diary is a matter for him, but I hope he does go. I think it’s important that this is done in the end by leaders.”
Mr Miliband acknowledged that the legally-binding agreement which Britain had initially hoped for from the summit may not happen at Copenhagen.
But he added: “It’s a bit like when you buy a house. Exchange may happen at Copenhagen and completion some months afterwards.
“What is most important, as far as I am concerned, is to get a really ambitious set of commitments from all world leaders.
“If we can get a very clear set of commitments from the world leaders in Copenhagen on how they are going to cut their emissions - not just Europe, not just the US, but India, China and other countries - then that will be a very major step forward."
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