What is the ECs position on future action against climate change?
At the Montreal world climate conference in December 2005, the EC and EU member states pressed for, and successfully obtained, a decision that international talks should start on future action to combat climate change after 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol commitments expire. These talks were launched in Bonn in May 2006 and are taking place on two parallel tracks. On one track, the parties to the Kyoto Protocol are discussing new emission targets for industrialised countries post-2012. In parallel, the UNFCCC parties, including those that are outside Kyoto, such as the U.S., are conducting a dialogue on long-term cooperative action against climate change. This dialogue is scheduled to take two years, until the end of 2007.
