MPU, Alm.del - 2010-11 (1. samling) - Bilag 346: Beslutningstekster fra FN´s klimakonference ( COP16), Cancun, Mexico

Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group onFurther Commitments for Annex I Parties under the KyotoProtocol at its fifteenth sessionThe Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the KyotoProtocol,RecallingArticle 3, paragraph 9, of the Kyoto Protocol,Also recallingArticle 20, paragraph 2, and Article 21, paragraph 7, of the KyotoProtocol,Further recallingdecisions 1/CMP.1 and 1/CMP.5,Recognizingthat Parties included in Annex I (Annex I Parties) should continue totake the lead in combating climate change,Also recognizingthat the contribution of Working Group III to the FourthAssessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change2007:Mitigation of Climate Change,indicates that achieving the lowest levels assessed bythe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to date and its corresponding potentialdamage limitation would require Annex I Parties as a group to reduce emissions in a rangeof 25–40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, through means that may be available to theseParties to reach their emission reduction targets,Notingthe reports of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments forAnnex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol from its sessions to date and the oral report by theChair to the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the KyotoProtocol at its sixth session,Welcomingthe progress achieved by the Ad Hoc Working Group on FurtherCommitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its work pursuant todecisions 1/CMP.1 and 1/CMP.5,Cognizantof decision 1/CP.16 (progressof the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention),1.Agreesthat the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex IParties under the Kyoto Protocol shall aim to complete its work pursuant to decision1/CMP.1 and have its results adopted by the Conference of the Parties serving as themeeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol as early as possible and in time to ensure thatthere is no gap between the first and second commitment periods;2.Requeststhe Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex IParties under the Kyoto Protocol to continue its work referred in paragraph 1 above on theproposals contained in document FCCC/KP/AWG/2010/CRP.4/Rev.4;

3.Takes noteof quantified economy-wide emission reduction targets to beimplemented by Annex I Parties as communicated by them and contained in documentFCCC/SB/2010/INF.X;*4.UrgesAnnex I Parties to raise the level of ambition of the emission reductionsto be achieved by them individually or jointly, with a view to reducing their aggregate levelof emissions of greenhouse gases in accordance with the range indicated by Working GroupIII to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,Climate Change 2007:Mitigation of Climate ChangeAR4,and taking into account thequantitative implications of the use of land use, land-use change and forestry activities,emissions trading and the project-based mechanisms and the carry-over of units from thefirst to the second commitment period;5.Agreesthat further work is needed to convert emission reduction targets toquantified economy-wide limitation or reduction commitments;6.Also agreesthat:(a) In the second commitment period the base year shall be 1990, or the base yearor period determined in accordance with Article 3, paragraph 5, of the Kyoto Protocol, forthe purpose of calculating assigned amounts; in addition, a reference year may be used by aParty on an optional basis for its own purposes to express its quantified emission limitationsand reduction objectives as a percentage of emissions of that year, that is not internationallybinding under the Kyoto Protocol, in addition to the listing of its quantified emissionlimitations and reduction objectives in relation to the base year;(b) Emissions trading and the project-based mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocolshall continue to be available to Annex I Parties as means to meet their quantified emissionlimitation and reduction objectives in accordance with relevant decisions of the CMP asmay be further improved through decisions to be adopted based on the draft text containedin Chapter III of document FCCC/KP/AWG/2010/CRP.4/Rev.4;(c) Measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to enhance removalsresulting from anthropogenic land use, land-use change and forestry activities shallcontinue to be available to Annex I Parties as means to reach their quantified emissionlimitation and reduction objectives, in accordance with draft decision x/CMP.6;(d) The global warming potentials used to calculate the carbon dioxideequivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhousegases listed in Annex A for the second commitment period shall be those provided by theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and agreed upon by the Conference of theParties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol together with othermethodological issues based on the draft text contained in chapter IV of documentFCCC/KP/AWG/2010/CRP.4/Rev.4;(e) Further work on the consideration of information on potential environmental,economic and social consequences, including spillover effects, of tools, policies, measuresand methodologies available to Annex I Parties shall continue on the basis of proposalscontained in chapter V of document FCCC/KP/AWG/2010/CRP.4/Rev.4.