Enigin Update - Nations face Climate Change Challenge in Bangkok
THE FIRST round of the UN climate change negotiations since the Cancun summit in December are being held in Bangkok next week, to work on the plans agreed at Cancun.
The Bangkok meeting will build on the Cancun agreements and work towards establishing a new global climate change regime, complementing or even replacing the Kyoto Protocol, whose first commitment expires in late 2012.
Senior officials from governments and international and non-governmental organisations will attend the Bangkok negotiations hoping to make progress on the crucial issue of establishing the Green Climate Fund, which aims to manage $100 billion a year to aid poor nations by 2020 and to limit a rise in average world temperatures to below 2 deg C (3.6 F) over pre-industrial times.
U.N.'s climate chief Christiana Figueres said in a statement: "Governments need to maintain momentum at Bangkok by agreeing a clear work-plan for 2011."
Reuters reports that some countries are at odds about the shape of a new deal to bind all major polluting nations to stronger steps to curb planet-warming carbon emissions. Weak economic growth means many developed nations have less focus on climate change.
Jennifer Morgan, director of the climate and energy programme at the World Resources Institute said: "One of the key questions is whether the spirit of Cancun that allowed negotiators to make compromises and move forward still exists.
"The main driver of progress is that for many countries climate action makes economic sense and are starting to put in place real policies," she added.
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Picture of Bangkok By Filipo (Own work) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons
