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Creative Commons: Adopt a Negotiator, 2012
Marking the mid-way point between COP17 in Durban and COP18 in Doha next week, the climate talks taking place in Bonn over the next fortnight are a much more low-key affair.
Without the politicians and the media spotlight overhead, these conferences focus on making some headway to where countries believe we should be heading for the end of 2012.
And with the end of this year bringing the end of the Kyoto Protocol’s first commitment period and with ambition over the Durban Platform being a major talking point, it is set once again to be two weeks of hot debate.
Youth groups around the world are again ensuring their voices are heard within the process – by performing a special ceremony outside Bonn’s Martim Hotel, where the conference is taking place, marrying together policy and science.
But why is this marriage so important?
The YOUNGO group explain that without combining politics and science, and ensuring policy that is in line with what the scientists are saying, the world is experiencing a gigatonne gap – which sees the carbon emission cuts pledged by countries far off from that needed to retain a 2ºC world.
They felt a marriage ceremony for the two would be a good way of representing this, while adding a little enthusiasm to the proceedings.
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