3rd meeting of the COP, Report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action under the Convention.
This session was extremely crowded, as it was the last working session that observer parties could sit in on during the conference. After this, the heads of state will be present and only delegates and party members will be allowed in the working group negotiations.
The president of the COP, Connie Hedegaard, opened the floor to several countries to report on their progress in negotiating the future of the Kyoto protocol. A summary of their comments:
-Brazil delegate seemed to be stuck outside of security and the delegation was extremely upset by this issue.
-India also had trouble with security.
-Australia, South Africa, India, and several other countries felt that another meeting was necessary to work out the technical details of moving forward with the two track process
-the president of the COP will convene a working group to decide how to move forward with the negotiations of the future of the Kyoto Protocol
Breaking news: At the end of the meeting, it was announced that Connie Hedegaard has resigned from her post as president of the COP. She will be replaced by the Prime Minister of Denmark, who may be better able to preside over the remaining negotiations since many heads of state will be present. More details as we receive them....
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