UNFCCC Media Alert
Transparent, interactive UNFCCC workshop on long-term climate change
finance to take place in Bonn 9-11 July
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(Bonn, 5 July 2012) – As part of ongoing international efforts to scale up
the mobilization of climate change finance for developing countries after
2012, a first transparent and interactive UNFCCC workshop on long-term
finance will take place 9-11 July in the Maritim hotel in Bonn, Germany. A
second workshop is planned for later this year. The workshop will be made
accessible to all interested stakeholders with the help of live and on
demand web cast, and viewers will be able to put questions to the
panellists via Twitter and Facebook.
The workshop on long-term climate change finance was requested by
governments as part of a work programme agreed at the UN Climate Change
Conference in Durban at the end of last year (COP17/CMP7). The work
programme on long-term climate change finance is designed to analyse
options for the mobilization of financial resources from a wide variety of
sources: public
and private, bilateral and multilateral, including
alternative sources, and also covers relevant analytical work. Around 180
representatives from governments, financial institutions, the private
sector, civil society and academia are expected to attend the event in
Bonn.
Interested individuals or organizations can put questions to the panellists
at the workshop via the @UN_climatechange Twitter account, using the
hashtag #LTFchat, and via the UNFCCC Facebook Long-term Finance event page
at
http://www.facebook.com/events/403420139704081/.
More information about the workshop, including the draft agenda and
supporting documentation, can be found at:
http://unfccc.int/cooperation_support/financial_mechanism/long-term_finance/items/6814.php
For further enquiries, please send an email to <
longter...@unfccc.int>
About the UNFCCC
With 195 Parties, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) has near universal membership and is the parent treaty of the 1997
Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol has been ratified by 193 of the UNFCCC
Parties. Under the Protocol, 37 States, consisting of highly industrialized
countries and countries undergoing the process of transition to a market
economy, have legally binding emission limitation and reduction
commitments. The ultimate objective of both treaties is to stabilize
greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will
prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system.
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