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Warsaw, 18 December 2007 On 17 December 2007, Professor Maciej Nowicki, Minister of the Environment, gave briefing for journalists to summarise the 13th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) serving as the 3rd Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP13/MOP3) that was recently held in Bali, Indonesia. - "Reduction by 20 % of carbon dioxide emissions by 2020, as related to the 1990 base year, was the message provided by the European Union during the Conference. The EU is even capable of making a higher effort and to reduce the emissions even by 30 %, provided that other countries will also assume the relevant quantitative commitments. That precondition has been just modified" - said Professor Maciej Nowicki. "- Discussion was held on the meeting to include the following wording into the final document summarising the Bali Climate Conference: - "Developed countries will make efforts to reach such consensus that their emissions be reduced between 25 and 40% by 2020. By 2050, the world community should reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 50%" - said Professor M. Nowicki. He also said that the Bali Action Plan is the most important document which was approved in result of long negotiations. This document does not contain any figures but the provisions like - "The world community agrees to commence negotiations, including the issues thereof", and also a recital; was included in this document that calls for negotiations to be complete in 2009. Professor Maciej Nowicki also said that the methods for reduction of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, the technology transfer, the adaptation to climate change, and the financial mechanisms will be the major issues of the post-conference negotiations. "- For developing countries, it is important to improve their access to various funding sources, to indicate the innovative financing methods, and to secure the need to mobilise both the public and private sectors for the purpose of financing" - said Professor M. Nowicki. In December 2008, the 14th Conference of the Parties to Climate Convention - COP14 - serving as the 4th Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP14/MOP4) will be held in Poznań, Poland. "- Since much is being done worldwide in the scope of reduction of greenhouse gas emission technology, technology transfer, funding sources, and adaptation to climate change, a bulk of knowledge could be collected and used to organise pavilion for the next meeting of the Parties to present the relevant good practices worldwide. That concerns also all innovations relating to greenhouse gas emission, beginning from the simplest solutions towards the most advanced technologies. Another element relates to focussing attention on all potential funding sources" - said the Minister. (-) Michał Milewski Head, Press Division, Department of Education and Promotion of Sustainable Development, Ministry of the Environment
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