Thursday, December 10, 2015

DRAFT TEXT on COP21 agenda item 4(b)





Paris Climate Change Conference - November 2015

The twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) takes place from 30 November to 11 December 2015, in Paris, France. 


DRAFT TEXT
on
COP 21 agenda item 4 (b)
Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (decision 1/CP.17)
Adoption of a protocol, another legal instrument, or an agreed outcome with
legal force under the Convention applicable to all Parties

Version 2 of 10 December 2015 at 21:00
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DRAFT PARIS OUTCOME [1]
Proposal by the President

Draft decision - /CP.21

[The Conference of the Parties,

II.     INTENDED NATIONALLY DETERMINED CONTRIBUTIONS

17.    Notes  with  concern that  the  estimated  aggregate  greenhouse  gas  emission  levels resulting  from  the intended nationally determined contributions in 2025 and 2030 do not fall within least-cost 2  ̊C scenarios, and that much greater  emission  reduction  efforts  than  those associated  with  the intended  nationally  determined  contributions will be required in the period after 2025 and 2030 in order to hold the temperature rise to below 2  ̊C or 1.5  ̊C  above pre-industrial levels;




http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/da02.pdf

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We can’t delay no more
Can’t deny the devastation,
Anthropocentric climate change
Is the technical designation.

From 1.5 to 2.0
May not seem like much distinction,
But at 2.0 degrees
We’re at an Age of Human Extinction.


 

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