The 2009 UNFCCC Climate Change Conference at Copenhagen, Denmark, will focus on creating a binding agreement to combat climate change. Discussions at Bonn (August), Bangkok (September), and Barcelona (November) will help to ease negotiations at Copenhagen and pave the way towards a comprehensive, internationally recognized, long-term climate agreement.
As noted by Yvo de Boer, the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, the conference has to resolve four main essential issues in order to be successful:
1. How willing are the industrialized countries willing to reduce their emissions of Green House Gases?
2. How much are major developing countries such as China and India willing to do to limit the growth of their emissions?
3. How is the help needed by developing countries to engage in reducing their emissions and adapting to the impacts of climate change going to be financed?
4. How is that money going to be managed?
As a non-profit, international organization dedicated to promoting trade and globalization, the ICC is working closely with its constituent members to develop refined statements for submission to the UNFCCC in order to best represent business interests around the world.
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