1. With three months until the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to be held in Paris this December, another round of negotiations to develop a new climate regime will take place in Bonn, Germany, from August 31 to September 4. This is the first negotiation meeting of the second half of the year.

o In the second half of the year, two negotiation meetings, including the upcoming one, will take place. The next meeting will be held from October 19 to 23.

o The forthcoming negotiation meeting will bring together 196 Parties to the UNFCCC, including the EU. The delegation of the ROK to the meeting, to be led by Ambassador for Climate Change Choi Jai-chul of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will consist of officials from related ministries, including 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 research institutes.

2. The upcoming meeting is the first negotiation meeting to proceed on the basis of two documents – draft text for the 2015 Agreement and the COP Decisions – which were created by splitting a formal negotiating text.

o During the negotiation meeting held in February, a formal negotiating text which contains views of all Parties was prepared. During the negotiation meeting in June, the formal negotiating text was streamlined.

o Following the meeting in June, co-chairs of the negotiation meetings, drawing upon the results of previous negotiations, split the formal negotiating text into a text to be contained in the legally-binding 2015 Agreement and that to be included in the COP Decisions, which cover technical matters in implementing the 2015 Agreement. The co-chairs circulated the split texts to the Parties.

3. During the upcoming negotiations, Parties that already submitted their post-2020 Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), which will become key elements of the new climate regime, will share major contents of and their experience in preparing their INDCs in an informal discussion session.

o Considering the importance of INDC in the new climate regime, the EU and Morocco, the chair of the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP22), will co-host a forum on INDC in Morocco from October 12 to 13 in order to exchange views on mitigation targets and the meaning of each INDCs.

4. The ROK delegation intends to make constructive contributions to designing the post-2020 new climate regime by participating in the upcoming negotiations and bilateral consultations with major countries in line with the position that the new climate regime needs to be a flexible and effective one that is applicable to all Parties.


*unofficial translation