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UNFCCC BALI CONFERENCE CONCLUSIONS – January 2008

THE BALI ROADMAP

The 2007 Conference of Parties and Meeting of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was held in Bali, Indonesia between 3 and 14 December 2007. Two weeks of intensive negotiations resulted in an agreement, known as the Bali Roadmap, The Roadmap sets the agenda for negotiations ending in 2009, and aims to deliver a timetable for negotiations for a climate change treaty which will apply after the Kyoto Protocol concludes in 2012.

UK Environment Secretary Hilary Benn described the agreement as the most significant since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol itself in 1997, adding that –

"This is an historic breakthrough and a huge step forward. For the first time ever all the world's nations have agreed to negotiate on a deal to tackle dangerous climate change concluding in 2009…

…We came here saying we wanted a Roadmap that included every country and covered emission reductions from developed countries and fair and equitable contributions from developing countries. We leave here with all of this and more – a groundbreaking agreement on deforestation, and others on adaptation and technology. And against predictions there negotiations will be guided by ambitious goals for emission reductions.

What we have achieved here has never been done before. Less than a year ago, many would have said this agreement was impossible. Now we must make it work, and in the next two years agree the detail of a comprehensive global climate deal that will take us beyond 2012."

The talks also resulted in agreements on deforestation, changes to the Adaptation Fund, a major new boost to technology transfer, a review of finance mechanisms including the Global Environment Facility, agreed provisions on the scientific standards for Global Observing Systems for climate change, agreements on budgets, further guidance on the Clean Development Mechanism, and changes to the operation of the CDM and carbon markets which should benefit small scale projects and the least developed countries.

A very demanding timetable for further negotiations and progress in all of these areas has now been set, looking forward to the next Conferences and Meetings of the Parties at Poznan, Poland in December 2008 and at Copenhagen, Denmark from 30 November to 11 December 2009.

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