Copenhagen, 11 December 2009 (Meena Raman) – There was an important turn of events at the Copenhagen Climate Conference on Friday when the Chairs of the two main working groups issued draft texts early in the morning which they proposed for negotiations among the Parties.
This caught most delegates by surprise because there had been no prior announcement or notice that there would be “Chair’s texts” and certainly not so early in the process.
The two texts were distributed by Michael Zammit Cutajar of Malta, the Chair of the Ad-hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) and John Ashe of Antigua and Barbuda, Chair of the Ad-hoc Working Group on the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP).
