Cop15 and Copenhagen Accord
In December 2009, Denmark hosted the UN’s Climate Change Conference COP15.
The conference was the largest political conference held in Denmark to date, with more than 30,000 delegates from 192 countries. 125 were represented at the Heads of State or Government level, placing the Copenhagen Summit among the largest ever.
COP15 succeeded in bringing together leaders from the world’s major CO2 emitting economies as well as the poorest and most vulnerable developing countries. And they agreed on establishing a future global framework for climate change, the Copenhagen Accord.
The key elements of the Copenhagen Accord are:
- A common goal to reduce global man-made emissions so as to keep the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius
- A commitment by developed countries to provide new and additional resources approaching USD 30 billion for the period 2010-2012 for developing countries to enable and support enhanced action on mitigation, adaptation, technology development and transfer and capacity-building. Developed countries also committed themselves to a goal of jointly mobilizing USD 100 billion pr. year by 2020, including private as well as public funding
- Information about all countries’ mitigation targets or actions are to be inscribed in appendix I and II to the Accord.
By end of June more than 135 countries have associated themselves with the Copenhagen Accord and 80 countries have submitted mitigation targets or mitigation actions, including the EU, the United States, China, India, Brazil and South Africa. The countries associated with the Accord cover 84 % of global emissions, 84 % of the world population and 90 % of the world’s GDP.
Countries’ submissions to The Copenhagen Accord can be find on the official website of UNFCCCC: Appendix I, Appendix II, Additional information by Parties.
Read the Copenhagen Accord here.
Find more information on the Copenhagen Accord and COP15 at denmark.dk and the web site of the Ministry of Climate and Energy.
