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Canada and the UN climate negotiations : Paris package that shows Canada cares

19 Nov 2015

Canadians and media can fossil fuels and investing less use this document to compare than it could in the transition Canada’s performance at these to a 100% renewable energy early meetings and in Paris against system to power our economy metrics that have the best chance of keeping the climate system and to ensure a healthy quality in balance. [...] Clearly, UNFCCC by October 1, government contributions to the current climate negotiations fall well short of keeping the world 2015 shows that 75% of from dangerous levels of global warming.5 the world’s global carbon The latest round of UNFCCC climate negotiations budget will have been was launched in 2011 at the 17th Conference of the Parties meeting in Durban, South Africa. [...] Parties by 2015 for the period beyond 2020.6 The negotiation of a new agreement for the post-2020 period does not imply that in its latest report, the intergovernmental Panel government commitments for 2020 are to be on Climate Change (IPCC) assessed the global abandoned. [...] The United Nations Environment the following provisions in the core Programme estimates developing countries agreement: could face adaptation costs of approximately $150 billion USD a year by 2025/2030.18 The A mandate to the UNFCCC Secretariat Paris agreement should protect the dignity to set up a registry for conditional indCs16 (as early as 2016) in order to of vulnerable populations by commi [...] A common, tiered and dynamic mRV framework that progresses towards •. Principles for social and ecological integrity common accounting and mRV, respecting and transparent rules for the land sector respective capabilities that prioritize the protection and restoration of ecosystems and identify and facilitate A provision to create a robust mRV framework for public and private finance emissions
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