Copenhagen Climate Change Summit Closes

22 December 2009

Source: UN; Population and Sustainability Network

The keenly anticipated UN Climate Change Conference has closed in Copenhagen this week.  Representatives from 192 countries were in attendance.

The Conference in Copenhagen failed to reach a deal on reduction targets of industrialized and emerging nations for greenhouse-gas emissions, but succeeded in setting the goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius over the coming years, and secured aid from developed nations to help poor nations cope with the effect of climate change.

PSN had a high profile presence at the conference, with Co-ordinator Karen Newman being speaking at, and / or facilitating, a number of key meetings. 

The Conference in Copenhagen failed to reach a deal on reduction targets of industrialized and emerging nations for greenhouse-gas emissions, but succeeded in setting the goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius over the coming years, and secured aid from developed nations to help poor nations cope with the effect of climate change.

  1. An exclusive lunch-meeting for approximately 75 MPs from both the South and the North - with a specific focus on adaption and how voluntary and rights based family planning can help reduce vulnerability in the developing countries most hit by climate change
  2. A lunch-meeting for approximately 50 youth leaders from environmentalist NGOs from the South - with a specific focus on adaption and how voluntary and rights based family planning can help reduce vulnerability in the developing countries most hit by climate change. This meeting will naturally have a focus on how young people can work with this agenda and try to influence policy and decision makers in their own countries
  3. A side event - with a broader focus on the linkages between climate change and RHR.

PSN's co-ordinator Karen Newman spoke at both lunch events.  There was an information stand and materials distributed, including a reprint of the WHO bulletin co-authored by PSN's Louise Carver.