ROSA Newsletter n°41 - EN

Views on recent news: Climate change, agriculture and food security: Neither ambition nor progress in Doha. How can we move forward to an ambitious round of negotiations ? The UN Climate Change Conference in Doha concluded in December 2012 with a new agreement called the “Doha Climate Gateway”. Decisions included amendments to the Kyoto Protocol to establish its second commitment period and an affirmation on the need to focus efforts to reach a new international climate agreement by 2015 that will enter into force by 2020. In spite of some progress on specific points of the negotiations, the Doha Conference was not a landmark event as no groundbreaking decisions were reached. In this interview, Emilie Johann, CIDSE’s climate change policy officer, discusses the outcomes of the Conference and notably the place given to agriculture and food security in the climate negotiations. She points out that the lack of ambition and leadership is the biggest obstacle to a satisfying outcome in the negotiations, and one of the biggest threats to the development of most vulnerable countries. She calls for stronger political will and commitment to move the negotiations forward in Warsaw at the end of the year.

Agenda: Information on past events, a list of forthcoming events and the EC’s latest news.

ROSA News: New documents online and information on network activities.