Briefings for SBSTA/SBI 18 in Bonn, June 2003

Sinks in the CDM: After the climate,will biodiversity go down the drain?
PDF file, 103K

CDM sinks: Do not change 1990 reference year for CDM reforestation definition.
PDF file, 152K

Canada blocks environmental safeguards for CDM sinks projects
PDF file, 124K

What's on the table at COP 8?

While no one expects New Delhi to yield the kind of 'do or die' brinkmanship of COP 6 at The Hague in November 2000 which ended in collapse, or the hard bargaining over the resurrection of Kyoto at COP 6 bis in Bonn in July 2001 and at COP 7 in Marrakech last October/November, we are entering a new phase of the international climate negotiations. While there is every expectation that Kyoto will enter into force some time early next year, there is a certain nervousness about starting anything new until entry into force is a fact.

However, as the first major international gathering since the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, where climate change was once again rhetorically cited by nearly all heads of state and government as the greatest challenge for humankind in the 21st century and beyond, there is an expectation that the rhetoric in Johannesburg will be reflected by action on key issues in New Delhi. Now that Kyoto has been ratified by 96 countries, it's time to work on the implementation side, take stock, and look to the future of the international climate regime. Kyoto is the first baby step on a very long road to bring about the end of the fossil fuel era and protect the planet for future generations.

See the documents on this page for further background. For a general overview, see 'A Quick Guide to the Climate Negotiations in New Delhi'.

For further information:

Steve Sawyer, Climate Policy Advisor, Greenpeace International
+31-6-5350-4715 (Dutch mobile)
+91- 9810399706
ssawyer@diala.greenpeace.org
http://archive.greenpeace.org/COP8

Documents:

A quick guide to the climate negotiations in New Delhi (Word document 114k)

Non-permanence of sinks
Submission by Greenpeace on issues related to modalities for including afforestation and reforestation under Article 12 (pdf document; 2m)

Temporary sinks do not cause permanent climate benefits
Achieving short-term emissions reductions at public. Greenpeace background paper. (pdf document; 193k)

Cool technologies
Working without HFCs (Word document; 135k)

Living on borrowed time
Greenpeace paper prepared for the 22nd open-ended working group meeting of the Parties to the Monreal Protocol. (Word document; 82k)

Canada's Trojan horse: "Cleaner energy export credits"
(Word document; 245k)

Windforce 12
A blueprint to achieve of the world's electricity from windpower by 2020 (pdf document; 1.3m)

Bali principlies of climate justice (Word document; 35k)

Preventing Dangerous Climate Change
A position paper by the Climate Action Network (Word document; 156k)