Negotiating a KyotoPlus Agreement

Countries have been negotiating the future of international climate policy since 2005. The Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period expires after 2012, and ratification of a post-2012 agreement is going to take at least three years. Considering that a peak in worldwide greenhouse gas emissions must occur in about 2015-2017 if global warming is to be held below the dangerous threshold of 2 degrees centigrade, it is therefore necessary to reach an ambitious and robust agreement on the post-2012 regime as soon as possible.

The Wuppertal Institute is constantly observing the negotiations and regularly presents its current research on the future of the climate regime at side events. Analyses of the negotiations are available further below on this website. Furthermore, you will find here a compilation of publications by the Wuppertal Institute on current issues in climate policy, analyses of previous climate conferences and links to further information available on the internet.