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Report of the Nineteenth Sessionof the

Conference of the Partiesto the

United Nations Framework Convention

OnClimate Change.

COP 19/CMP9

What is COP??Conference of the Parties is commonly known as COP.

The parties to the Convention have met annually from 1995 in Conference of the Parties (COP) to assess progress in dealing with climate change. The COP adopts decisions and resolutions, published in the reports of the COP. Successive decisions taken by the COP make up a detailed set of rules for practical and effective implementation of the UNFCCC. The COP also serves as the meeting of the parties to the KYOTO PROTOCOL, which also adopts decisions & resolution on the implementation of its provisions. This annual meeting is referred to as the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the parties to the Kyoto Protocol(CMP).However ,parties to the convention that are not parties to the protocol are able to participate in the CMP as observers, but without the right to take decisions.

UNFCCC• The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an

international environmental treaty negotiated at the United Conference on Environment and Development informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992.The objective of the treaty is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.

• The UNFCCC was opened for signature on 9May 1992, after an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee produced the text of the framework convention as a report following its meeting in New York from 30April to 9May 1992.It entered into forces on 21March1994. As of March 2014, UNFCCC has 196 parties.

Some locations of preceding COPs

1. 1995 BERLIN2. 1996 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND3. 1997 KYOTO, JAPAN4. 1998 BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA5. 1999 BONN, GERMANY6. 2000 THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS7. 2001 BONN, GERMANY8. 2001MARRAKECH, MOROCCO9. 2002 NEW DELHI, INDIA10. 2003 MILAN, ITALY11. 2004 BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

12. 2005 MONTREAL, CANADA13. 2006 NAIROBI, KENYA14. 2007 BALI, INDONESIA15. 2008 POZNAN, POLAND16. 2009 COPENHAGEN, DENMARK17. 2010 CANCUN, MEXICO18. 2011DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA19. 2012 DOHA, QATAR20. 2013 WARSAW, POLAND21. 2014 LIMA, PERU22. 2015 PARIS, FRANCE (to be held)

COP 19 / CMP9

• COP 19 is the nineteenth meeting of the Congress of Parties (COP) since the UN Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered into force in 1995. COP 19 was held in Warsaw, Poland from 11 to 22 November, 2013.

• The Climate Conference held in Warsaw has set up a

new international mechanism to help developing countries affected by loss & damage from climate change, such as the Philippines typhoons.

PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE

• Create a loss and damage pillar of a new climate treaty to be finalized in 2015.

• Mitigation (emission reductions)

• Adaptation pillars.

Qualms of the Conference

• Expressing serious concern that the warming of the climate system is unequivocal and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to Millennia. The climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies, future generations and the planet, that continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and changes in all components of the climate system and that limiting climate change will require substantial and sustained reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. And aggregate emission pathways consistent with having a likely chance of holding the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C or 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.

POLICIES

• Facilitate support of actions to address loss and damage;• Improve coordination of the relevant work of existing bodies under the

Convention;• Convene meetings of relevant experts and stakeholders;• Promote the development of, and compile, analyze, synthesize and review

information.• Provide technical guidance and support;• Make recommendations, as appropriate, on how to enhance engagement,

actions and coherence under and outside the Convention, including on how to mobilize resources and expertise at different levels.

ACHIEVEMENTS• The setting up of a loss & damage international

mechanism was the major achievement of the 19th Conference of Parties of UNFCCC (COP 19)

• The new loss & damage mechanism to help victims of typhoon, floods ,drought and other effects of Climate Change was set up after many days of negotiation .

Implementation of KYOTO PROTOCOL

Mexico South Africa

Aus-tralia

United States

Canada OECD Europe

Japan Total OECD

1997

0.4 1.3 1.2 1.1 1 0.3 0.1 0.8

2013

2.4 1.9 3.4 2.4 2.3 2.6 2.3 2.6

0.251.753.254.75

CO₂ REDUCTION

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FAILURES

• Failure is a variable term here because how we perceive the word “FAILURE” and “SUCCESS” will change the whole notion in milieu.

• There hasn’t been a overall success because of some obvious constrains but apart from that this Convention is a massive success.

Conclusion

• The main outcome of the meeting was the establishment of an international mechanism for a loss and damage associated with climate change; loss and damage aspect of climate negotiations brought out the worst in some countries.

• Some developing countries were going to resist the idea of financing adaptation to climate change, while others appeared to hate the idea of climate reparations for poor countries. A few years earlier, industrialized nations had made a legal commitment to a global climate fund.

Presented by:ADIS SHALEH (13) KAJAL DEKA (15)

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