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After the adoption of the EU climate and energy package of December 2008, all eyes are now on the international negotiations on climate change that are scheduled to take place at Copenhagen in December, this year.

The main issues to be solved this year will be the level of emission reductions of developed countries and the nature, scope and stringency of mitigation actions by developing countries.

In a release issued by the delegation of the European Commission in Ghana, it stated that the issue of financial support for adaptation and mitigation action in developing countries will be a central item of debate, probably until the last night of the Copenhagen conference.

The EC policy package constitutes an essential input to EU policy development and position building, especially with regard to the Spring Council in March, this year.

The policy package sets out concrete proposals for action by the EU and the rest of the international community with the aim of avoiding the worse effects of anthropogenic climate change. It also presents an outline of an effective financial architecture to support the necessary action agreed upon in Copenhagen.

The key points of the package are that, the developed countries should continue to take the lead in international efforts to fight climate change.

To this end, the EU had already proposed that they would commit more to cutting their Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, as a group, to an average of 30% below 1990 levels by 2020 under a new global climate change agreement if other developed countries make similar commitments.

In order to ensure comparable contributions by each developed country to this overall effort, this communication sets out four criteria that should be consistently taken into account when setting national reduction targets like GDP per capita, green house gas emissions per unit of GDP, trend in GHG emissions between 1990 and 2005 and population trend over the period 1990 to 2005.

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