What is on the agenda at Poznan?
The Poznan Conference of Parties is a stepping stone to a critical international climate meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December 2009 which is supposed to deliver a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol. There should be progress in areas such as technology support, adaptation and deforestation, and continued financing for the UNFCCC Secretariat. But the big political question – ‘what will the new U.S. administration do and how will the world respond?’ – will not be answered. A good outcome, given this holding position, would be for other countries to set the bar high, and commit to a concerted global effort to make a robust new agreement happen over the next year.
