The past few years have borne witness to numerous informal discussions on the structure and content of a post-2012 regime.
WWF asserts that due to the urgency of the issue and the legal requirements of the Kyoto Protocol, formal negotiations should be launched at the first Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol in Montreal this year.
Such a decision would require serious reviews, analysis and negotiations taking place over the next 3 years.
In order to inform that process, WWF asked Ecofys to assess the various ideas and proposals currently being informally discussed. Divided into 2 sections – one on Annex I and one on non-Annex I, the paper analyses approaches based on 3 criteria; environmental effectiveness, economic efficiency and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities.
Our hope is that this analysis will spur further thoughts and ideas on how countries can join together to ensure that global average temperature does not exceed 2 degrees, in comparison with pre-industrial levels. This will require an overall strengthening of effort of all Parties so that each "does its part" to tackle climate change.
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