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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I must warn you right away that this is quite a complicated issue and my answer is even more complicated.
As the person who asked the question says, the eleventh conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Agreement on Climate Change and the first meeting of the Parties serving as the Conference of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol resulted in two new processes for the future. These were the setting up of an
working group to discuss additional obligations of the parties to the Kyoto Protocol mentioned in Annex 1 to the Convention, and a dialogue on long-term cooperative action to address climate change by enhancing implementation of the Convention. The dialogue in itself is not an opening for negotiations on new commitments.
The first workshop held for the Convention dialogue gave all parties the opportunity to present their ideas on advancing development goals in a sustainable way by addressing action on adjustment and realising the full potential of technology and market-based opportunities. This was the first of four workshops and, at the same time, the start of a longer process, which it is intended to bring to a conclusion at the end of next year. New ideas were proposed on future action, to be discussed in greater detail. The workshop leaders, Howard Bamsey of Australia and Sandia de Wet of South Africa, reported to COP12 on the workshop and have promised that the report will be available by August 2006.
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workshop initiated an examination of additional obligations of the parties to the Kyoto Protocol mentioned in Annex 1 and drafted a provisional work plan for the next few years. Whilst recognising that the discussions by the
working group entailed an examination of the additional obligations of the parties mentioned in Annex 1, which were confirmed as changes to Annex B of the Kyoto Protocol, the working group’s deliberations also stressed the importance of bearing in mind the work that was already under way and the results achieved in this area by other bodies and processes under the Convention and the Protocol.
The second session of the
working group will be during the second session of the Parties serving as the Conference of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, with further development of the working group’s action plan as the aim. Meanwhile, the parties mentioned in Annex 1 will be asked to supply data by the beginning of September on the issues which they might wish to raise at the second session, for example, trends in emissions, the potential for policy and technology to alleviate climate change, and the costs and benefits of a reduction in emissions.
The annex to the working group’s plan is a list, albeit not an exhaustive one, and the initiative and sole responsibility of the Chairman, who drew it up, of themes that may be important for the future tasks of the working group. These themes are a scientific basis for determining additional obligations, the scenarios and risks attached to these obligations, the costs and impact of adjustment, emission trends and socio-economic factors, the potential for policies, measures and technologies for alleviating climate change, the costs and benefits of alleviation, sectoral analysis and the effect on competitiveness, experience gained, the lessons learned from implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, how long the obligations should remain in force, the sectoral approach, an outline for future commitments, and the additional costs of developing, adopting and transferring technologies.
In summary, I might say that a firm basis for both processes was established in the 24th session of the auxiliary bodies. The situation is to be reassessed after the 12th Conference of Parties in Nairobi, where both these new action processes will be discussed and the first review pursuant to Article 9, paragraph 2, of the Kyoto Protocol will be carried out."@en1
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