Bali Road Map
After the 2007 United Nations Climate Change Conference held on the island of Bali in Indonesia in December 2007, the participating nations adopted the Bali Road Map as a two-year process working towards finalizing a binding agreement at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference encompassed meetings of several bodies, including the 13th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 13) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the third session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 3).
The Bali Road Map includes the Bali Action Plan (BAP), which was adopted by Decision 1/CP.13 of
Bali Action Plan
Cutting emissions
The participating nations acknowledged that evidence for
Mitigation
Enhanced action on mitigation of climate change includes, inter alia:
- Nationally appropriate mitigation commitments or actions by all developed countries.
- Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) by developing countries.
- Cooperative sectorial approaches and sector-specific actions (CSAs).
- Ways to strengthen the catalytic role of the convention.
Forests
The nations pledge "
Adaptation
Participants agreed on enhanced co-operation to "support urgent implementation" of measures to protect poorer countries against climate change, including National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs).
Technology
In
- Removal of obstacles to, and provision of financial and other incentives for, environmentally sound technologies(renewable energies, electric vehicles).
- Ways to accelerate the deployment, diffussion and transfer of such technologies.
- Cooperation on research and development of current, new and innovative technology, including win-win solutions.
- The effectiveness of mechanism and tools for technology cooperation in specific sectors.
Finance
Provision of financial resources and investment includes:
- Improved access to predictable and sustainable financial resources and the provision of new and additional resources, including concessional fundingfor developing country Parties (dcP).
- Positive incentivesfor dcP for national mitigation strategies and adaptation action.
- Innovative means of funding for dcP that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate changein meeting the costs of adaptation.
- Incentivisation of adaptation actions on the basis of sustainable development policies.
- Mobilization of funding and investment, including facilitation of climate-friendly investmentchoices.
- Financial and technical support for assessment of costsof adaptation in developing countries, to aid in determining their financial needs.
Ad Hoc Working Groups
The Conference decided to establish two subsidiary bodies under the Convention to conduct the process, the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA)
The AWG-LCA and AWG-KP presented draft conclusions to
Timescales
Four major UNFCCC meetings to implement the Bali Road Map were planned for 2008, with the first to be held in either March or April and the second in June, with the third in either August or September followed by a major meeting in
See also
- Agenda 21
- Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
- Carbon financing
- Climate Technology Initiative (CTI)
- Expert Group on Technology Transfer (EGTT)
- Flexibility mechanism
- Global Environment Facility (GEF)
- Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC)
- LULUCF
- Monitoring, reporting and verification(MRV)
- Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN)
- Risk assessment
- Technology Needs Assessment (TNA)
- UNDP
- Zero-carbon economy
References
- ^ "Ad Hoc Working Group, AWG-KP". Unfccc.int. 18 December 2009. Archived from the original on 5 January 2010. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
- ^ "United Nations Climate Change Conference, 3–14 December, Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, (COP 13 and CMP 3)". Unfccc.int. Archived from the original on 4 February 2010. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2008. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "REDD: An introduction". REDD-Monitor. 23 January 2009. Archived from the original on 9 January 2010. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
- ^ "Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA)". United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
External links
- Part of the UNFCCC site dedicated to the Bali Roadmap
- BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | At a glance: Bali climate deal
- Bali Action Plan (.pdf) on United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change gateway
- Full text of the Framework Convention, agreed 9 May 1992
- Conference official blog
- Video clips of key moments on the last session of the Conference and interviews with Hilary Benn and Myron Ebell on Channel4 News: Bali: a deal of sorts
- Draft report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its tenth session
- Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention. Draft conclusions proposed by the Chair.