Prospects for a Climate Change Agreement
Joan MacNaughton reviewed the history of international efforts to reach a climate change agreement and looked at the prospects for global agreement in the future. On prospects for global agreement, she took the view that negotiations for a global agreement will continue to be extremely difficult the ‘loss and damage’ issue adds to tensions emission reduction pledges are far short of what is needed for 2 degree goal but many more countries now have mitigation plans, and many countries looking at carbon pricing (including Korea, seven pilot schemes in China, California and Kazakhstan) In terms of the overall prospects for global agreement, there were a number of serious issues and a real risk of the 2o goal becoming unattainable. If it happened at all, then December 2015 in Paris (COP 21) would be a critical event. Prospects were not strong, at least in the absence of either a cataclysmic event or strong political leadership.
Categories: Energy and environment, Energy policy, Meetings
Tags: CDM, Emissions reduction, Emissions trading, EU ETS, Global, parker seminars
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2013