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Curb your enthusiasm: Corona may slow down multilateral process, but must not derail global climate policy

Bauer, Steffen / Clara Brandi / Gabriela Iacobuta
External Publications (2020)

published on blogs.die-gdi.de 02.04.2020

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The UK government together with UN climate officials announced that the UN climate change conference “COP26” that was set to convene in Glasgow, Scotland, in November 2020, will be postponed into 2021 in response to the ongoing Corona crisis. Concomitantly, the UNFCCC has decided to reschedule its intermediary round of negotiations, which were set to convene in Bonn in early June, to 4-12 October 2020. This hardly comes as a surprise, yet poses an unprecedented challenge for the multilateral climate process, which stands at the doorstep of a new era even without “COVID-19.”