This week’s meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) marked the start of an intense year with a calendar of meetings.
In late 2014 countries will meet in Lima, Peru with the aim of having a draft universal agreement on the table to be finalized in 2015. The new agreement is to enter into force in 2020.
In advance of that, the UN Secretary-General will host a September Climate Summit involving heads of State to leaders of the private sector, again with the aim of catalyzing climate action and raising ambition worldwide.
Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said: “We are now entering a serious and significant phase in the evolution of international, cooperative climate policy as we look towards both Lima and Paris.”
