What key issues are still to be decided before 2015 Agreement becomes a reality? (September 2015)
The September meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP 2.10) in Bonn allowed parties to the UNFCCC make a progress on the way towards adopting “a protocol” in less than 3 months from now in Paris. This will be legal instrument or an agreed outcome which, like the Kyoto Protocol, will have legal force over all parties to the Convention, including the Eastern Partnership countries and Russia.
Negotiators arrived in Bonn at the end of August armed with the ADP Co-Chairs scenario note, a draft decision on pre-2020 ambitions discussed under ADP workstream 2 (WS2) and a so-called “tool”, prepared by the Co-Chairs on the basis of the Geneva Negotiating Text (GNT) aiming to support negotiations under ADP workstream 1. The tool was based on a consolidated text which emerged from ADP 2.9 session in Bonn in June, itself an iteration of the GNT put together by parties at that session.
In their scenario note, issued on 24 July, well in advance of the September ADP meeting, Co-Chairs stressed that all elements of the GNT were retained in the “tool’, which re-organised GNT into 3 parts, as suggested by the Co-Chairs: part 1 containing elements which are considered suitable for inclusion in the Paris Agreement; part 2 containing elements which should be included in COP decisions; part 3 where all other elements were placed, for parties to decide what to do with these.
The report of our Key expert, Dr. Marzena Chodor, is available in English and in Russian
What next?
Ahead of the next ADP session to take place in Bonn next 19 to 23 October, the UNFCCC Secretariat published the following documents:
- ADP.2015.8.InformalNote: Non-paper ; Note by the Co-Chairs
- DP.2015.9.InformalNote: Draft decision on workstream 2 of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action
- ADP.2015.7.InformalNote: Scenario note on the eleventh part of the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action ; Note by the Co-Chairs