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During the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15), there was a rival conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, for deniers, called the Copenhagen Climate Challenge, [1] which was organised by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow.
Post-Kyoto negotiations refers to high level talks attempting to address global warming by limiting greenhouse gas emissions.Generally part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), these talks concern the period after the first "commitment period" of the Kyoto Protocol, which expired at the end of 2012.
The negotiations began to take a new format when in May 2009 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon attended the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen, organised by the Copenhagen Climate Council (COC), where he requested that COC councillors attend New York's Climate Week at the Summit on Climate Change on 22 September and engage ...
The United Nations Climate Change Conferences are yearly conferences held in the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They serve as the formal meeting of the UNFCCC parties – the Conference of the Parties (COP) – to assess progress in dealing with climate change, and beginning in the mid-1990s, to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol to establish legally ...
In the third and final five-year period between 2021 and 2025 less than 90% will go under free allocation and the rest will be auctioned. To lessen the burden of particular businesses those involved in energy-intensive and trade-exposed sectors (EITE) will be granted 100% of their allowances for free in all three phases.
During the Climate COP15 conference in Copenhagen, CFACT hosted a rival event in Copenhagen called the Copenhagen Climate Challenge, which was attended by about 50 people. [26] According to Lenore Taylor of The Australian , Professor Ian Plimer , "a star attraction of the two-day event", attracted an audience of 45.
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To date, countries representing over 80% of global emissions have engaged with the Copenhagen Accord. 31 January 2010 was an initial deadline set under the Accord for countries to submit emissions reduction targets, however UNFCCC Secretary Yvo De Boer later clarified that this was a "soft deadline".