President Nicolas Sarkozy intends to invite the countries that signed the Copenhagen Accord to a meeting in spring 2010. One purpose will be to reinstall the goal of halving global emissions by 2050.
The 28 countries that signed the Copenhagen Accord will be invited to a meeting in Paris in April or May 2010.
This is according to Reuters, quoting a statement from President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office revealing “that Sarkozy had evoked the conditions of the mobilization that France intended to bring in the coming months” during a lunch with representatives from a number of environmental groups.
“The aim of the meeting would be to implement the 50 percent objective by 2050,” Arnaud Gossement, spokesman for France Nature Environment, who took part in the lunch, tells Reuters.
The 50 percent objective refers to the target of halving global emissions by 2050 – a target that has been repeated in many international sessions throughout the last year, including summits of the Group of 20 (G-20) and the Major Economies Forum, but was finally omitted in the accord agreed at the UN conference in Copenhagen, COP15.
Meanwhile, ministers for climate and environment from the European Union have met to evaluate the outcome of COP15.
“The feeling is that what has been agreed upon is not good enough. However, a step in the right direction was taken in Copenhagen. The issue now is to implement EU’s own policy. We have a clear understanding that we will not allow ourselves to be caught up in a state of climate depression but rather look ahead,” Lykke Friis, newly appointed climate minister for Denmark, tells Danish daily Berlingske.
The European initiatives will not stand alone. According to RTT News, Bolivian President Evo Morales will invite countries critical of the Copenhagen Accord to a summit on April 22.
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