Climate Change - The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland

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The Nature Conservancy is attending The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland — known informally as COP 14 — to urge participants to hammer out a draft negotiating text for the next major international agreement on climate change. This draft could be discussed and improved over the next year and agreed to at next year's UN conference in Copenhagen.

A Copenhagen agreement would replace commitments made under the Kyoto Protocol, which will expire in 2012.

During the Poznan meeting Conservancy staff and scientists will inform government representatives about key climate change issues and advocate for key provisions we feel are essential in addressing climate change. These provisions include:

Meaningful reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from all emitters and sources.
Financial incentives to developing countries for reducing emissions from deforestation.
Preparation of natural areas and vulnerable communities for the inevitable consequences of a changing climate.

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Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo © Tim Becker (Rowhouses in Poznan, Poland); Photo © Mark Godfrey/TNC (Lesan River Orangutan Survery Site in East Kalimantan, Indonesia,); Photo © CJ Hudlow (California tree); Photo © Mark Godfrey (Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea); Photo © Mark Godfrey/TNC (forest); Photo © Harvey Payne (Arizona Storm); Photo © European Community (European Union flag); Photo © Sergio Pucci/TNC (three-toed sloth).