Bonn Climate Talks Focus on 'Rule Book' For Paris Agreement, Early Ratification

摘要

Representatives from nearly 200 countries began work May 16 on a new "rule book" that will govern the implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change, agreed to six months ago in the French capital. The central focus for the first meeting of the United Nations Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement is how countries will monitor, report and verify the national climate pledges submitted last year, and whether poor and developing countries should be subject to the same rules as industrialized countries. Other areas under discussion include technical workshop meetings on both mitigating climate change and adapting to it, and an informal stocktaking session next week to help gauge progress at the halfway point between the Paris summit and the follow-up negotiations scheduled to take place in Marrakech, Morocco, in November.