Road to COP 6

Delegates from all over the world are meeting in Lyon (4-15th September) to discuss how to combat climate change. This includes 150 governments along with industrial groups and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) including Greenpeace, World Wildlife Fund, Friends of the Earth and Climate Action Network. Formally this is called the 13th Session of the Subsidiary Bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

These negotiations are the last discussion sessions that will take place before the Sixth Conference of Parties (COP6) in Den Haag from 13-24th November. COP6 will make decisions on the rules and implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. For more information on the history and importance of the Kyoto Protocol and the sessions themselves visit the UNFCCC website at
http://www.unfccc.int/

However at present the environmental integrity of these negotiations and the decisions, or lack of them, are at stake. Greenpeace has prepared a number of briefing papers on the key issues involved and the loopholes being made in these negotiations. At the end of this page is a summary of these loopholes and Greenpeace’s demands. Click on the links below to read these papers:


Briefing Papers

Should Forests and other Land Use Change Activities be in the CDM?
Revised in August 2000

The Clean Development Mechanism: An Instrument for Sustainable Development or a New Nuclear Subsidy?
Revised in August 2000

The Road to Den Haag: A Cheat's Game?
August 2000

Cheating the Kyoto Protocol: Loopholes and Environmental Effectiveness
August 2000
 
 

Undermining the Kyoto Protocol: Environmental Effectiveness versus Political Expediency, Greenpeace International