Climate Negotiations
International negotiations on climate change take place in many different venues and settings. However, all these negotiation streams are loosely coordinated to feed into the global negotiations hosted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which oversees the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol.
The UNFCCC itself has two major negotiation tracks, the AWG-KP, established at COP11 in Montreal to discuss future commitments for developed countries (under the Kyoto Protocol in particular) and the AWG-LCA established at COP 13 in Bali to look at a range of commitments from all parties to the Convention.
Outside the UNFCCC negotiations, talks take place in settings such as the Major Economies Forum, and the agreements reached between small groupings of nations can help build political consensus in the UNFCCC negotiations.
