UN Climate Change Conference in Poznań, Poland

December 12, 2008

Ambassador Victor Ashe and Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky welcome guests at the reception Wednesday night

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 14) in Poznań, Poland, ends today. It “marks the midway point of the two-year Bali action plan and that parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change launched last December, and it’s a key step toward the shared goal of developing a new global climate architecture in Copenhagen for next December,” Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky said. “The United States is fully committed to reaching agreement by 2009 on a post-2012 climate agreement that is environmentally effective and economically sustainable. And in achieving this, this will require significant action from all major economies, including ours. And similarly, all major economies must measure and report their actions in a verifiable manner.” remarks in full | more on the conference