COP 21 Expects to Conceive New Regime on Handling Climate Change
30 November 2015 14:14 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Paris -Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, President of the 20th Conference of Parties (COP 20) and the Peruvian Environmental Minister, officially opened the COP 21 on November 30, 2015. Vidal will also handover his seat as the COP 20 president to French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who will serve as the President of the 21st Conference of Parties (COP 21) until the event ends on December 11, 2015.
The COP 21 on the Convention of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change will be attended by 147 heads of state, including Indonesian President Joko Widodo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Barack Obama, Chinese President Xi Jin Ping, British Prime Minister David Cameron.
"The COP 21 has a strategic meaning," said Nur Marispatin, Director General of Climate Change Control at the Environmental and Forestry Ministry in Paris on Sunday, November 29, 2015.
The COP 21 is the culmination of an ongoing discussion initiated on 2011 during the COP 17 event in Durban, South Africa, which was marked by the establishment of the Ad-Hoc Working Group on Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP).
The ADP was initially established to mitigate the failure of the Kyoto Protocol that has ended back in 2012. Developed countries listed in Annex-I of the Kyoto Protocal had failed to achieve its commitment in reducing greenhouse gas emission.
The COP 17 event in Durban has agreed to establish a new international regime in handling post-2020 global warming, which applies for all of its state parties. The principle that was agreed by state parties in the COP 17 was the Common but Differentiated Responsibility (CBDR) and Respective Capability (CBDR-RC)
Meanwhile, the COP 21 is expected to conceive a new regime on the mitigation of global climate change applicable to all state parties in consideration of the CBDR-RC principles.
For Indonesia, results of the COP 21 event will serve as a reference in carrying out national development agenda for post-2020 period.
UNTUNG WIDYANTO (PARIS)