The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznań will be a milestone on the road to success for the processes which were launched under the Bali Road Map. The meeting comes midway between COP 13 in Bali, which saw the launch of negotiations on strengthened international action on climate change, and COP 15 Copenhagen, at which the negotiations are set to conclude.

The conference will include the 29th sessions of the Convention’s subsidiary bodies - SBSTA and SBI – as well as the 4th session of the AWG-LCA and the 2nd part of the 6th session of the AWG-KP. The Poznań meeting, which is expected to draw around eight thousand participants, will both advance international cooperation on a future climate change regime and ensure progress on key issues.
Provisional agendas and further information

At the Climate Change Conference in Bali, Parties to the UNFCCC decided to launch formal negotiations on a strengthened international deal on climate change. These negotiations are set to be concluded by the end of 2009 at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. To conduct the process, a subsidiary body under the Convention was set up, called the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA).
AWG-LCA documents and submissions

To discuss future commitments for industrialized countries under the Kyoto Protocol, the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol established a working group in December 2005 called the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP). The AWG-KP is also set to complete its work by the end of 2009.
AWG-KP documents and submissions

UNFCCC Executive Secretary: “Copenhagen 2009 needs to be a strong and ambitious policy framework that sets a clear overall direction for future global climate change action”
The Hague, Netherlands
25 September 2008
In a speech given in the Hague on the development dimensions of a new global climate change agreement, Yvo de Boer outlined the essentials to be included in an agreed outcome in Copenhagen. Since future global climate change action should not jeopardize developing countries’ overriding goals of poverty eradication and economic growth, he said that Copenhagen 2009 had to open the door for viable, climate-friendly economic growth on a global scale.
Speech (202 kB)