Christiane Gerstetter of Ecologic Legal, gave a presentation to young diplomats, participating in the 4th Executive Seminar for Diplomats from Latin America and the Caribbean on the international legal framework for climate protection and the current climate negotiations.
Christiane Gerstetter gave an overview of the central elements of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. She summarized the current status of the negotiations concerning adaptation, mitigation, transfer of technology and finance. Many issues are still controversial, in particular between developing and developed countries, she observed. The discussion following the presentation touched on the role of agriculture in mitigating climate change, the role of the United States in the international climate negotiations, emissions trading and the prospects for an ambitious climate change agreement in Copenhagen in December 2009, inter alia.
Further links:
- Ecologic Institute Project: Legal expertise on the participation of Turkey in the flexible mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol
- Ecologic Institute Project: Legal Aspects of Climate Protection
- Ecologic Institute Project: Design of International Climate Policy
- Ecologic Institute Project: Global Environmental Governance and International Environmental Regimes
- Ecologic Institute Publication: Efficient Climate Policy through Flexible Mechanisms
- Ecologic Institute Publication: Tracking down the Future Climate Regime – An Assessment of Current Negotiations under the U.N.