Copenhagen Accord

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The Copenhagen Accord is a non-binding international climate agreement reached in 2009 that recognized the need to limit global temperature rise to 2°C and introduced a system of voluntary emissions pledges by countries.

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Copenhagen Accord canonical 5
Copenhagen climate summit 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf United Nations climate change document
international climate agreement
non-binding political agreement
addresses adaptation to climate change
climate finance
mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions
reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
technology development and transfer
adoptedAtConference 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference
adoptedAtEvent COP15
adoptedInCity Copenhagen
adoptedInCountry Denmark
adoptionBody Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC
adoptionDate 2009-12-18
adoptionYear 2009
appliesTo developed countries
developing countries
containsProvision fast-start climate finance
long-term climate finance goal
documentType political declaration
draftedBy Brazil
China
India
South Africa
United States of America
surface form: United States
financePledge collective commitment to provide new and additional resources approaching USD 30 billion for 2010–2012
goal of mobilizing USD 100 billion a year by 2020
followedBy Cancún Agreements
formallyNotedBy Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC
surface form: Conference of the Parties at COP15
fullName Copenhagen Accord self-link
influenced Paris Agreement
introducedMechanism bottom-up mitigation pledges
pledge and review system
system of voluntary emissions pledges
language English
legalStatus non-binding
politically binding
mentionsInstrument Copenhagen Green Climate Fund concept
Green Climate Fund
mentionsMechanism REDD+
negotiationContext post-Kyoto climate regime negotiations
notAdoptedByConsensus true
opposedBy Bolivia
Sudan
Tuvalu
Venezuela
pageCount 5
recognizedTemperatureGoal 2 degrees Celsius limit
limit global temperature increase to below 2 °C
requires submission of national mitigation targets or actions
shortName COP15 Accord
subject global warming limitation goals
international climate policy
supportedBy European Union
temperatureBaseline pre-industrial levels
underFramework United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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Copenhagen Accord fullName Copenhagen Accord self-link
2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference alsoKnownAs Copenhagen Accord
this entity surface form: Copenhagen climate summit
COP16 relatedTo Copenhagen Accord