Submissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the foundation of the international effort to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. This should be achieved within a sufficient time frame to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change. This will be done so as to ensure food production is not threatened and economic development is enabled to proceed in a sustainable manner.
The UNFCCC Secretariat administers both the Convention and its Kyoto Protocol. As part of this, there are periodic negotiations over the direction of the processes. These are attended by New Zealand representatives. A core part of the process is that nations and Civil Society may make submissions outlining their opinions of where the negotiations are and where they should be headed.
The submissions below have been made by New Zealand on issues of importance to agriculture and forestry, including their place in both the developed and developing world.
Copenhagen, Denmark, December 2009
15th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, the Fifth Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.
UNFCCC - Copenhagen Climate Change Talks - 2009
Data on Forest Management: Submission by New Zealand, November 2009 [PDF 19K]
Bangkok, Thailand, September 2009
Ninth session of the AWG-KP and seventh session of the AWG-LCA
UNFCCC - Bangkok Climate Change Talks - 2009
Bonn, Germany June 2009
Thirtieth session of the UNFCCC Convention subsidiary bodies - SBSTA and SBI, sixth session of the AWG-LCA and the eighth session of the AWG-KP*
UNFCCC - Bonn Climate Change Talks June 2009
Bonn, Germany March 2009
- Seventh session of the AWG-KP and fifth session of the AWG-LCA
- New Zealand Submission to the AWG-KP Seventh Season covering land use, land use change and forestry rules [230K PDF]
Poznan, Poland December 2008
Accra, Ghana August 2008
- New Zealand input to AWG-KP (Session 6) on land use, land use change, and forestry rules for post 2012.
- New Zealand Submission: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries
- ACCRA Climate Change Talks 2008
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