1. The eighth part of the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP 2-8) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), aimed to establish a new climate regime to be applied from the year 2020, will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, from February 8 through 13.

◦ The meeting will bring together delegates from 196 parties to the UNFCCC, including the EU. The delegation from the Republic of Korea will be led by Ambassador for Climate Change Choi Jai-chul of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and composed of working-level officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and the Ministry of Environment, as well as experts from relevant think tanks.

2. The ROK, in a bid for many countries to participate in the negotiations and for an effective new climate regime to be produced, will play a bridging role between developed and developing countries, thereby contributing constructively to the negotiations. It will also make efforts to have its own position reflected in the new agreement.

◦ In particular, the ROK has consolidated its base of cooperation on climate change with major Asian countries, including by holding the second Bilateral Meeting on Climate Change with Singapore on January 20 and signing a bilateral agreement for cooperation on climate change with China on January 29. Building on such efforts, the country seeks to play an active role in the negotiations on the new climate regime.

3. On the sidelines of the ADP 2-8, the ROK delegation will attend a strategy meeting of the Environmental Integrity Group (EIG), whose members include the ROK, Switzerland and Mexico, on February 6. On February 7, the ROK group will meet with the Co-Chairs of the EIG and the ADP as well as delegates from the Independent Association of Latin America and the Caribbean (AILAC) and the group of the least developed countries (LDC). Such meetings will come as part of the ROK’s continued efforts to seek ways to play a bridging role between developed and developing countries for them to reach a compromise. 


                Spokesperson and Deputy Minister for Public Relations of MOFA

* unofficial translation