This study analyzes the outcomes of thoughts and researches on what actions to take and plans to have, in terms of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The study organizes the current series of climate change negotiations since the 17th Conference of Parties (COP) in 2011, which had taken placed in Durban, South Africa. The results of major workshops, 'equitable approaches to sustainable development' and 'long-term global objective and mitigation action' are discussed and implications are drawn. In addition, this study analyzes the negotiation position of China in depth because China has increasingly enlarged its influence on the progress of climate change negotiations. The political positioning of China is discussed following the previous discussions of U.S. negotiating positions which was already discussed in the third edition of this report. The major negotiation issues of AWG-LCA, AWG-KP, and ADP since the COP 17 are discussed and summarized. Then, the study summarizes the outcomes of the COP 18 and suggests Korea's strategies on future climate change negotiations.
The parties of the Doha Conference agreed to continue on the Kyoto Protocol (KP) by 2020 in the midst of parties fearing the collapse of KP. The adoption of a second commitment period of the KP, the only legally binding obligation to reduce green house gas emissions, will prevent the gap between the first and second commitment periods. The AWG-LCA which was established in 2007 (COP 13) in order to discuss the post-2012 climate change paradigm is terminated and it is set to implem