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Global Leadership for Climate Action

• Facilitating an international agreement on climate change: adaptation to climate change

  A joint initiative of the United Nations Foundation and the Club of Madrid, Global Leadership for Climate Action (GLCA) consists of former heads of state and government, as well as leaders in business, government, and civil society from more than 20 countries. In 2007, GLCA published Framework for a Post-2012 Agreement on Climate Change, which called for four negotiating

  • 01/06/2009

  • Global Leadership for Climate Action
  • • UNFCCC
    • Climate Change
    • Development
    • Climate Impacts
    • Climate Agreements
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Developing Countries

• Framework for a Post-2012 Agreement on climate change: a proposal of Global Leadership for Climate Action

  The purpose of this document is to propose the outlines of a broadly acceptable framework that addresses the following issues: differentiated targets and timetables; forests as carbon sinks; market-based mechanisms; adaptation; research, development and deployment; technology cooperation; and finance.

  • 01/01/2007

  • Global Leadership for Climate Action
  • • Climate Change
    • Climate Impacts
    • Climate Mitigation
    • Carbon Sinks
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Global