What Happened in the Poznan, Poland Climate Change Negotiations?
Thursday, March 5, 2009 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time / 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Central Time 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Mountain Time / 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time Program Overview: The 14th Conferences of the Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change met in Poznan, Poland in December to negotiate a replacement to the Kyoto Protocol. The substance of these negotiations was guided by the Bali Road Map, an international agreement reached at COP-13 in Bali in December of 2007. The Bali Road Map launched a two-year process to strengthen international climate change cooperation by building on the basic architecture of the Kyoto accord and adding new issues. The new matters included, among other things, new issues on deforestation, adaptation, and technological transfer. Under the Bali Roadmap, negotiations to replace Kyoto were to be initiated at the recently completed Poznan meeting and finalized in December of 2009 at Copenhagen. This program will r
