First Draft of New Climate Change Agreement Presented to Governments

| October 5, 2015 | Leave a Comment

“Bonn, 5 October 2015 – Work towards a new universal climate change agreement was today strengthened through the issuance of the first comprehensive draft of the agreement.

The Co-Chairs of the Ad hoc working group on the Durban platform (ADP), the body tasked with negotiating the agreement, prepared the draft, which contains the basis for negotiation of the draft Paris climate package. In addition to the agreement, the package contains a draft of the decision that will operationalize the agreement from 2020 and a draft decision on pre-2020 ambition.

The documents can be found here.”

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