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The Roadmap to Copenhagen
There are high expectations for this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference from December 7 - 18, 2009 in Copenhagen. A follow-up agreement for the Kyoto Protocol (expiring in 2012) should be passed, for which the various parties established their political positions during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 13) in Bali.
Since then, the most important topics have been debated within the so called Bali Roadmap:
- Development of a common vision for the future, which should provide a basis for the definition of strict CO2 reduction goals
- Increasing the effort to adapt to the consequences of the climate change
- Stronger endeavours to avoid CO2 emissions
- Development of financing instruments and technology transfer.
Local Government Climate Roadmap
Parallel to official UN proceedings international and European networks are working on an addition process. This process focuses on the political recognition of the importance of local authorities in the international task of climate protection and the strengthening of co-operation with each other. Municipalities and their role in climate protection should be named in the policy paper of the EU and the guidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference.
At the beginning of June 2009 there was an international preparation conference for local authorities in Copenhagen, which was organised by the Local Government Denmark (KL).
During the UN summit in December there should also be a conference for mayors.
Primarily, the European networks aim to receive recognition by the European governments through lobbying and public relations.
You can find further information and documents of the process 
here.
Letter to the European Council 
(313KB)
Draft text for an UNFCC COP Decision (356 KB)
REDD
Since 2007, the subject Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) has been discussed increasingly on an international level. The report by Sir Nicolas Stern (Stern-Report), which indentified the reduction of CO2 emissions from avoided deforestation as the best measure for climate protection, made a major contribution to this debate.
However, there are concerns, that, besides CDM (Clean Development Mechanism), REDD represents another loop hole for the industrialised countries to buy their way out of reduction obligations. Therefore, the members of Climate Alliance passed resolutions on compensation and REDD in 2008 and 2009, which you can find 
here.
Further information:UN-REDD Programme FundREDD Web Platform
Indigenous Organisations in the Climate Process
The indigenous people worldwide are concerned that their rights could be further restricted or turned back by this instrumentarium. Our partner organisation COICA, which represents 1.5 Million Indigenes in Amazonia, passed a position paper on the internation processes. Here you can download the position paper (438 KB).
A joint declaration was passed at an international conference in Anchorage in April 2009. You can find further information here.
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