At Secure Data Recycling we are very excited about the Green conference in Paris, but felt we need to understand what the process is for actually making a resolution.

Once the leaders have said their piece and the main politicians have flown back to their various countries, it is left to their delegates and experts to negotiate agreements

The calendar below is what they are working to, which considering the agenda is an incredible short space of time, one can only assume that much of these idea’s and negotiations have been discussed and prepared elsewhere for several months prior to paris.

WEEK OF 1-6 DECEMBER

TUESDAY, 1 TO FRIDAY, 4 DECEMBER: the representatives of the 196 parties negotiate the future agreement within the Ad Hoc Working Group on the ADP. The work will be carried out under the authority of the two ADP co-chairs.

In parallel, subsidiary bodies for implementation (SBI) and scientific and technological advice (SBSTA) continue their work on the more technical aspects (monitoring of the implementation of current climate policies, including in the framework of the Kyoto Protocol, etc.).

SATURDAY, 5 DECEMBER: closure of the work of the ADP, which submits a new text, resulting from the negotiations of this first week, to the French Presidency.

 WEEK OF 6-11 DECEMBER

It is during this second week that France fully presides over COP21. The Environment or Foreign Affairs Ministers (or lead negotiators in their absence) of the 196 parties meet to negotiate the new text. The French Presidency then proposes to the 19- parties the terms for continuation of the work, following consultation with them and taking into account the results of the first week.

MONDAY, 7 and TUESDAY, 8 DECEMBER: Ministers’ speeches. In parallel, the 196 parties continue their work on the draft agreement.

WEDNESDAY, 9 DECEMBER: Conclusion of the negotiations in order to carry out legal and linguistic verifications of the agreement text in the 6 UN languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).

THURSDAY, 10 DECEMBER: adoption of the decisions.

FRIDAY, 11 DECEMBER: adoption of the Paris Agreement. The signing of this agreement is not planned for the same day, but for early 2016, during a ceremony organized by the United Nations Secretary-General.