President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is scheduled to meet Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) who is expected to brief her on the progress of the climate change negotiations for a new climate change protocol.
With only three months to go, world leaders from more than 180 nations will forge an agreement that will contain what may be mankind’s largest challenge in the 21st century–a new global treaty on climate change.
The United Nations climate-change conference is scheduled to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December. A potential successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012, it will attempt to hammer out a new international treaty to curb greenhouse-gas emissions,.
The Philippines had earlier submitted a position paper asking industrialized countries to cut their CO2 emissions by more than 30 percent to 40 percent from 2013 to 2017 and by more than 50 percent from 2018 to 2022, using the 1990 levels as jump off point.
The Kyoto protocol, which took effect on February 16, 2005, is an international agreement that sets a target reduction of GHG emissions for 37 industrialized countries and European communities from 2008 to 2012. (PIA)
