Workshop on post 2012 climate regime

„Support for shaping the Post Kyoto Climate Regime”

5-6. March 2009, Szentendre, Hungary

Concept

After COP 14 held in Poznan last year December international negotiations are expected to shape a global deal at COP 15 and COP/MOP 5 in Copenhagen at the end of 2009. On the road to the final agreement it is extremely crucial to have a transparent, balanced and acceptable approach for the rules of future commitments. There are several approaches on the table at present.  Countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Turkey are in a very specific situation, since they are less developed than the developed countries, but more developed than the developing countries. Problems arising from this fact have not been much discussed on regional level.

The aim of the workshop is to fill in this gap and contribute to shaping and developing their position toward to post Kyoto climate regime. That goal is to be achieved on the one hand by providing with information about the state of art of international negotiations and the different approaches for the future commitments. On the other hand the aim of the event is to organize a discussion forum, where the implications on the CEE region and Turkey can be addressed. The workshop participants are the governmental representatives, the experts from the international organizations, and the representatives of the NGO community.

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• Background paper
• Agenda
• List of participants

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Session 1 - International negotiations on post 2012 regime: general framework and the key questions

• Negotiations on the post-2012 regime: general framework and recent developments
  Ruta Bubniene, UNFCCC
• Common but differentiated responsibilities: different commitments, actions and support for different countries
  Yulia Dobroljubova, Climate expert REC Russia
• Impact of climate change in Europe, the need for adaptation in the post 2012 climate regime
  Tamas Prager, ELTE University, Hungary

Session 2 - Financing the future climate regime

• Flexible mechanisms within and beyond the Protocol in the post-2012 regime
  James Atkins, Vertis
• Innovative financial mechanisms to mitigate climate change - Debt for environment swap
  Stanislaw Sitnicki, Ecofund, Poland

Session 3 - Sharing the burden: approaches to render the reduction commitments fair

• Contraction and Convergence approach presentation
  Jozsef Feiler, Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Future, Hungary
• Multi-stage approach presentation Ecofys & SenterNovem
  Zsolt Lengyel (SenterNovem)
• Sectoral approach presentation
  Yoshinori Tanaka, Japan
• Consumption based approach to GHG emissions accounting
  Klaus Hubacek, Leeds University, UK

Session 4 Regions of the CEE in the negotiations: what is at stake?

• Projections for Europe
  Francois Dejean, European Environment Agency
• Implications of Post Kyoto climate regime on new EU member states
  Jozsef Feiler, Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations, Hungary
• Implications of Post Kyoto climate regime on Western Balkans
  Maria Khovanskaya, Regional Environmental Center
• Implications of post Kyoto climate regime on Turkey
  Oguz Can, ISTAC AS./System Development Manager

Session 5 Role of Local Governments (Chair: Judit Balint)

• Local governments in national and international climate negotiations
  Wolfgang Teubner, ICLEI
• Outcome of COP14 LG session and the way forward to COP15
  Wolfgang Teubner, ICLEI,
• Involvement of local governments and business sector to climate protection in Turkey
  Gulcin Ozsoy, REC Country Office Turkey
• Regions for Sustainable change
  Venelina Varbova, REC
• Alliance for municipalities in Hungary
  Laszlo Z Antal, Hungary