Brasília – Brazil is expecting the 20th Conference of the Parties to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-20), due from December 1st to 12th in Lima, Peru, to culminate in a draft of the new global climate agreement, to be established at the COP-21 in Paris next year. COP-20 is considered a transitional conference leading into COP-21, whose goal is to outline a new agreement to enter into force in 2020.
“The meeting in Lima is absolutely crucial for us to be able to complete the agreement at the Paris Conference. We have no draft based on which to negotiate. One of the expected outcomes is for us to make progress in setting the elements of the new agreement, which will be completed next year,” said the undersecretary general for Environment, Energy, Science and Technology at the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations, ambassador José Antonio Marcondes de Carvalho, the chief negotiator for the Brazilian mission to international conferences on environmental issues.
The ambassador reported that the Brazilian delegation is championing the maintenance of differentiated greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for developed and developing countries, which is provided for in the agreement currently in force. According to him, goals must be set for each of the countries based on their emission levels.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
