Examples of using A second commitment period in English and their translations into German
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Does the EU favour establishing a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol?
A second commitment period which will run until 2020 was agreed on at the Climate Change Conference in Doha.
Secondly, there are the conditions for a second commitment period in the context of the Kyoto Protocol.
A second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol means that binding international rules will continue to apply in future.
Finalising the outstanding issues in order to adopt a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol.
As far as we are concerned, a second commitment period to the Kyoto Protocol can only happen in a global context, involving all the main economies with a legally binding agreement.
I welcome the European Union's constructive attitude in agreeing to consider a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.
This means that there must be a second commitment period for the industrialised nations under the Kyoto Protocol.
Responding to questions from MEPS, the Deputy Minister confirmed that the EU has accepted a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol.
International negotiations on a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol after 2012 are to start in 2005.
The Protocol currently allows them to carry over their surplus allowances,known as Assigned Amount Units(AAUs), for use in a second commitment period after 2012.
On this basis the Conference of the Parties(COP)was able to agree on a second commitment period under Kyoto Protocol to follow on from the first commitment period which expires at the end of 2012.
One thing I would like to emphasise is that we, the European Union, must remain clear on our conditions for a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol.
That will be a debate in its own right: are we heading towards a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol and what are the emerging countries and the United States doing?
Given that, last year, this position gave rise to a great deal of misunderstanding and that this is also very important in the international negotiations, the EU intends to adopt a flexible stance:flexible with regard to a second commitment period, but subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions.
At the same time, it confirmed its willingness to consider a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol if this were part of a wider outcome including the perspective of a global framework engaging all major economies.
The adoption of these common positions are expected to enable the Cyprus Presidency and the European Commission, who will be leadingthe European delegation in Doha, to pursue an agreement for a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2013, which looks to curtail the emissions of greenhouse gases.
However, the EU is willing to consider a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol on condition that this forms part of a wider global agreement which engages all major economies in climate action and that the environmental integrity of the Protocol is improved.
The EU remains of the view that a single legally-binding instrument would be the best framework for the period after 2012,but the Council agreed in confirming the EU's openness to a second commitment period, on the condition that it should be the last one before convergence between the Kyoto Protocol and Convention outcomes, and that in any case it should last no longer than 2020.
Full banking of these units into a second commitment period would cut the ambition of developed country targets by around 6.8% in relation to 1990, i.e. reducing the ambition from 13.2% to 6.4% for the lower end of the pledges, or from 17.8% to 11% for the higher end of the pledges.
I would re-state that, had it not been for theEuropean Union signalling its willingness to taking a second commitment period, had we said the same as other Kyoto parties in Cancún, then any prospect of having a legally binding deal by now would have been dead.
The questions will bemainly focused on whether the EU will accept a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol in Doha, as well as on the topic of the fast-start financing commitment, for which the Economic and Financial Affairs(ECOFIN) Council adopted Conclusions last week.
We have the same position as the Council, which is that the European Unionwill only be able to consider a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol if this takes place in an overall framework that involves all the main economies, ahead of a global, legally binding agreement.
If there is a failure to reach a global agreement,Europe should still remain open to considering a second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol, but imposing conditions, especially with regard to the environmental integrity of the protocol, the redesigning of the Clean Development Mechanism and the undertaking of commitments by the major polluters worldwide, such as China and the US.