Quick Overview of the General State of Play of UNFCC Negotiations after Poznan

Very few concrete results were expected to come out of Poznan, given the intermediary nature of this Conference (a year after Bali, and a year before the final deal in Copenhagen), and given the political context in the United States (the current Bush administration was still at the negotiating table, but with no mandate to negotiate). 
The cornerstone of Poznan was to find an agreement on the 2009 work programme, especially on two issues: the mandate given to the incoming AWG-LCA Chair, Mr. Michael Zammit Cutajar (Malta), to write his two first negotiating texts, and the possibility to organise an additional session. Agreement on these two issues was found quite easily during informal consultations. In fact, one might even argue that agreement on these issues was found too quickly, leaving Ministers with nothing to negotiate, except for two very tricky issues: the share of proceeds and the Adaptation Fund. Nevertheless this agreement, especially on the two first negotiating texts, successfully paves the way for the entrance of the Parties into full negotiating mode in 2009.
In that document, Emmanuel Guérin proposes an overview of these main issues.

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