Sunday 17 April 2011


 CANCUN AGREEMENT


The official talks of CONFERENCE OF PARITIES (COP-16) ended on December 10 ,2010 at Cancun, Mexico and marked a turning point in the global negotiations to agree a global deal to tackle dangerous climate change.
Key outcomes from the agreements at the Summit are:
·                                 Objective: agreed to peak emissions and an overall 2 degree target to limit temperature rise.
·                                 Emissions: bringing details of what developed and developing countries are doing to tackle climate change,                           promised in Copenhagen, into the UN system so they can be assessed.
·                                 MRV: agreed a system so we know how countries are living up to their promises to take action on emissions
·                                 Long-term finance: established the Green Climate Fund and will start to get it ready to help developing countries go low carbon and adapt to climate impacts.
·                                 Deforestation: agreed to slow, halt and reverse destruction of trees and agree the rules for delivering it and for monitoring progress.
·                                 Technology/Adaptation: set up the mechanisms to help developing countries access low carbon technology, and adapt to climate change
THTHE COP-17 WILL BE HELD AT DURBAN,SOUTH AFRICA FROM NOV28th   TO DEC 9th,  2011.

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