Mitigation
Workstream 2 intervention on pre-2020 ambition, 2 May 2013
Delivered by Natasha Hurley of EIA on behalf of CAN
Thank you Co-Chairs,
My name is Natasha Hurley and I’m from...
(a) Application of Principles of Convention
Equity, including a dynamic approach to common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities (CBDRRC), must be at the...
At successive UNFCCC meetings, Parties have acknowledged the existence of a multi-gigatonnes gap between the current level of ambition to mitigate emissions until 2020 (expressed in QELROs...
Intervention in ADP Special Event on ADP Workstream 2, 2 December 2012
Delivered by Jan Kowalzig
Thank you chair.
Workstream 2 should build on three broad pillars.
The first...
CMP CAN Intervention
27 November, 2012
Thank you Mr Chair.
We wish to restate our profound concerns, expressed in this morning's plenary, that Civil Society has not been given enough time...
The planet is giving warning as to what dangerous climate change looks like – from historic droughts in East Africa, the United States and Mexico, to catastrophic floods in Brazil and China,...
The planet is giving warning as to what dangerous climate change looks like – from historic droughts in East Africa, the United States and Mexico, to catastrophic floods in Brazil and...
Планета предостерегает относительно того, как выглядят опасные изменения климата - от исторически небывалой засухи в Восточной Африке, Соединенных Штатах и Мексике до катастрофических...
El planeta está dando aviso de cuán peligroso se presenta el cambio climático, mostrando desde sequías históricas en África Oriental, Estados Unidos...
La planète ne cesse de nous montrer à quoi peut ressembler un changement climatique dangereux – les sécheresses historiques dans la Corne de l’Afrique, aux...
地球正在警告我们危险的气候变化会是什么样子——从 东非、美国和墨西哥史无前例的干旱，到巴西和中国的 灾难性的洪水，以及欧洲和其它地方的热浪。世界性的 粮食危机的阴影正在浮现。而那些缺乏减排雄心并引导 这个世界走向升温3.5到6度和失控的气候灾难的国家，还在漠视这些警示。
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Practical ideas and suggestions on how the ADP can advance its work, both towards delivering an effective post-2020 agreement and bridging...
Background:
International aviation and maritime transport are major and fast‐growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions, while being under‐taxed from an environmental perspective. Yet there is...
Although this paper concerns developing country NAMAs, CAN stresses, at the outset, the need for developed
countries to do much more in terms of mitigation and support obligations...
A good agreement in Doha requires considerable progress on mitigation issues. For 2012 there are four tracks for action that are in play and need to be utilized to the full. The needed...
Thank you Co-Chairs. My name is Anna Malos and I am speaking on behalf of the Climate Action Network.
For the ADP to succeed, firstly elements of the LCA must be concluded at Doha...
Kyoto Protocol rules allow countries to carry over any unused (ie. surplus) Assigned Amount Units (AAUs) into the next commitment period. A number of countries, such as Russia, Ukraine and Poland,...
Building a workplan across KP, LCA and ADP to ensure a successful 2015 protocol.
Presented by Pat Finnegan, GRIAN
Thank you chair for giving us the opportunity to present our views on behalf of CAN international. Public support and engagement at the local and national level is critical to the success...
Distinguished delegates,
My name is Sunil Acharya and I will speak on behalf of the Climate Action Network. With the LCA's mandate extending till the end of this year, Parties...
My name is Nina Jamal and I will speak on behalf of the Climate Action Network
Acknowledging the establishment of the Durban platform in COP 17; there is a need to increase ambition...
According to Decision 11/CMP.7 paragraph 14 admitted UNFCCC observer organizations are invited to submit views, on the revision of the joint implementation guidelines, taking into account, as...
CAN welcomes the establishment of the Ad Hoc Working group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action. Now that Parties have agreed to negotiate a legally binding instrumentto be adopted...
Admitted UNFCCC observer organizations are invited to submit views, including experiences, positive and negative, on matters referred to in paragraphs 79 and 80 of the Durban decision...
CAN Submission - Views on Options and Ways to Further Increase the Level of Ambition - February 2012
Views on Options and Ways to Further Increase the Level of Ambition
28 February 2012
Submission to the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action ...
This report explains who participated in the CAN Pre-COP workshop in Ethiopia in October 2011. The discussions that took place are highlighted and regional follow-up work to these discussions is...
Thank you, Madame President.
My name is Alden Meyer from the Union of Concerned Scientists, and I am speaking on behalf of the Climate Action Network.
CAN believes there are three sets of...
Thank you Chair,
I am speaking on behalf of the Climate Action Network.
We call on Parties to acknowledge the urgency with which climate change needs to be addressed and to agree to ambitious and...
CAN Pre-COP 17 Workshop
19-21 October 2011
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, East Africa
The main objectives of the program:
1. Provide space for southern CAN members and other...
CAN intervention
Closing AWG-LCA Plenary
Panama, October 7, 2011
Delivered by Sandra Guzmán, CEMDA
Thank you Mr Chair
I am speaking on behalf of the...
CAN has identified the important submissions, technical expert meetings, workshops etc that should be undertaken to progress work in order that Durban should be successful in establishing the basis...
Climate Action Network-International
Submission to the Transitional Committee for the Green Climate Fund
29 July 2011
On behalf of the more than 600 member organizations in the Climate Action...
In the UNFCCC countries agreed to prevent dangerous climate change: to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic...
My name is Manjeet Dhakal and I am from Nepal.
Climate change is already melting glaciers and putting my community at risk.
The following urgent action is needed to close the...
Overview
A. Clarify assumptions behind pledges:Developed countries must clarify their assumptions on domestic efforts and the use of carbon offsets, LULUCF accounting and AAU carry-over....
Bonn is a key moment to make progress on MRV issues. While there are a great many political issues at play, work on some technical issues needs to begin now.
Parties should agree on the structure...
Thank you chair.
Distinguished delegates.
My name is Lina Li. I’ll speak on behalf of the Climate Action Network.
Global CO2-Emissions in 2010 reached all-time...
Thank you Mr Chair,
Distinguished delegates,
My name is Maike Pilitati. I’ll speak on behalf of the Climate Action Network.
As CAN has consistently...
Summaries in: English, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish
Cancun was a modest success as it buried the ghost of the failure of Copenhagen. However, the Cancun Agreements postponed important...
LCA
This process must deliver concrete action to ambitiously address the climate change challenge. We need an agenda and a work plan to deliver on that by Durban.
The agenda discussions...
Opening LWG-KP Plenary – Bangkok
CAN intervention, April 5, 2011
Thank you Mr. Chair,
My name is Sven Harmeling. I’m speak on behalf of the Climate Action Network.
The KP...
Guiding Principles
Significantly Enhanced Global Effort by all Parties
Environmental Integrity and Equity
Common But Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities
Developed...
Path to Durban: Objectives for the Bangkok Intersessional and 2011
Cancun was a modest success as it buried the ghost of the failure of Copenhagen. However, the Cancun Agreements...
CAN lessons to be taken from the developing country mitigation workshop at Bangkok 4 April 2011.
Developing country action: Where are Parties after Cancun?
In Cancun Parties agreed on keeping...
Developed country pledges: Where are parties after
Cancun?
1. Adopted: 2oC goal
2. Agreed: consider moving to 1.5oC
3. Recognised: 25-40% range for developed countries
4. Agreed: scaled-up...
Developed country pledges: Where are Parties after Cancun?
In Cancun Parties agreed on keeping warming below 2°C and agreed to consider moving to
1.5°C. Parties also recognised the 25-40...
CAN views on the work program on developing modalities and guidelines for measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) and International Assessment and Review (IAR) for developed country...
In this submission the Climate Action Network International looks at a non-exhaustive list of policies and measures which are aimed at directly or indirectly reducing or mitigating greenhouse gas...
Madam President, Distinguished Delegates,
My name is Yang Ailun from China. I am speaking on behalf of Climate Action Network, a global network of over 500 NGOs.
Today you have an opportunity...
THE POST-COPENHAGEN ROAD
A fair, ambitious and binding deal is needed more urgently than ever. Climate science is more compelling by the day. Impacts are coming harder and faster. Disastrous...
La COP 16 en Cancún debe ser un paso significativo hacia un acuerdo justo, ambicioso y vinculante a ser alcanzado en la COP 17 en Sudáfrica. La COP 16 debe adoptar progresos en...
Cancun Building Blocks: Essential steps on the road to a fair, ambitious & binding deal outlines the balanced package of outcomes from Cancun, and the benchmark by which CAN’s 500 member...
The 2007 Bali conference heard repeated calls for reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions of 50 per cent by 2050 to avoid exceeding the 28C threshold.While such endpoint ...
This meeting was one of the most intense discussions in a focused setting for CAN’s southern members. Last year CAN International under the Southern Capacity Building ...
Intervention at the opening of the KP Plenary at Tianjin Session 2010.
坎昆地基
通往一个公平，雄心勃勃并且有法律约束力的协议的关键步骤
Le Réseau Action Climat- International (CAN-International)
Papier de position
Les piliers de la négociation à Cancun: les étapes-clé vers un accord...
Negociaciones globales sobre el clima:
Estructura, Funcionamiento y Estado Actual
23 de septiembre de 2010
Presentado por:
Francisco Soto ...
Kyoto Protocol: Closing Plenary
CAN intervention
6th August 2010
Distinguished Delegates,
Tuesday's workshop left no doubt that we are on the way to exceeding the dangerous
threshold of 1.5...
Distinguished Delegates, today I speak on behalf of the Climate Action Network.
My name is Raju Chetri. I am from Nepal, and the future of my family and my people depends on the success of these...
Thank you Mr Chair, Distinguished delegates, Clearly, progress is needed on the KP track here in Bonn.
CAN would like to remind delegates that when the KP was first negotiated, Parties agreed...
CAN Position Paper - November 2009
Views regarding mitigation under the LCA Submission of the Climate Action Network International 30 September, 2008
CAN Position Paper Minimization of Adverse Effects of Response Measures
While the Kyoto Protocol is not yet in force (due to the unilateral declaration by the George W. Bush Administration of the United States that it would not follow the Kyoto Protocol, as well...
CAN position on scale of finance.
Views and information on means to achieve the mitigation objectives of Annex I Parties
CAN submission on the Bali Action Plan, under the AWG-LCA
Statement by Martin Khor of the Third World Network at the Dialogue Plenary Session at the UNFCCC Vienna Climate Talks, 29 August 2007
The Climate Action Network (CAN) urges the Japan, the ‘self-claimed most energy efficient country’, to admit that it is only ‘one of the most energy efficient...
CAN Submission - Indicative ranges of emission reduction objectives for Annex I countries - Jun 2007
InCAN’sviewthefirst review of Article 9 under the Kyoto Protocol was a missed opportunity to advance discussions on a number of important issues. CAN believes what is...
Thank you Mr. Chairman/President.
My name is Sharon Looremeta, and I am a Maasai and I work with my farming community - we have mainly herding animals and they have been suffering and...
The Climate Action Network has long campaigned for a strong international agreement to achieve real
cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. The key elements of the Kyoto...
On February 16th 2005---more than seven years after the text of the treaty was initially agreed--
“Kyoto”, a protocol to the UN Framework Convention on climate change...
The Essentials Checklist
The Copenhagen agreement must be fair to all countries and must safeguard the climate, specifically it must include the following commitments
A commitment to keep...
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The Leadership Development Program (LDP) is one of CAN’s cornerstone programs that aims to strengthen its national and regional nodes and build professional leadership within the network....