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![]() "Humanity will not forgive us if we fail" - UNFCCC COP-5 President
Ministers and officials
from 166 governments concluded two weeks of climate change negotiations
that centered on enabling decisions and a timetable for completing the
outstanding details of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol by COP-6 from 13-24 November
2000 in the Hague. A number of countries, echoing German Chancellor Gerhard
Schröder's call at the opening Plenary, are seeking early ratification,
possibly by the tenth anniversary of the 'Earth Summit' (UNCED) in 2002.
The NGO community played a key role in lobbying governments, at home and
at the COP, to adopt the 2002 deadline. The Hague COP will be preceded
by two one-week rounds of talks in the two subsidiary bodies, from 12-16
June and from 11-15 September. Each session will be preceded by one week
of informal talks and workshops. COP-5
defers decisions on Kazakhstan and Turkey Small
Island States deeply disappointed at deferral of COP's consideration of
UNFCCC Article 4.2 (a) and (b) on adequacy of commitments
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