Transforming the Paris agreement into action

Following the COP21 in Paris (France) in December 2015, a conference that focused on limiting global temperature increase to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels, the different bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are now gathered in Germany for the Bonn Climate Change Conference. This forty-fourth session of its two Subsidiary Bodies and the first session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement, supporting the work of the Conference of the Parties (COP) - is lasting from 16th to 26th May 2016. There, the different Parties of the United Nations are taking first steps to transform the Paris Agreement into action.

The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) supports the Luxembourg Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructures within the UNFCCC and Dr Andrew Ferrone, one of its experts in climatology, is attending this meeting as member of the Luxembourg delegation.

Since the beginning 2016, Dr Andrew Ferrone also brings its expertise within the EU Negotiation Team. There, he co-chairs a group called "Issue group Science" whose role is to cover all topics where scientific information is coming into the negotiation process and he takes the floor for the European Union to formalise the link between the scientific and policy making community.

>> Next meetings to be attended by the Luxembourg delegation are the 44th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in October 2016 and the COP 22 in Marrakesh (Morocco) in November 2016.

>> Find also an article about this topic, written in German by Dr. Andrew Ferrone, on the science.lu website