"Negotiations on a global agreement - the assessment of European Union diplomacy"

Andrzej Blachowicz
Ministry of the Environment

Andrzej Kassenberg
Institute for Sustainable Development, Climate Coalition

Miroslaw Sobolewski
Bureau of Research, Chancellery of the Sejm

Ernest Wyciszkiewicz
Polish Institute of International Affairs

Marta Zielinska
Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The debate was led by
Zbigniew Karaczun, Polish Ecological Club - Mazovian Branch, Climate Coalition

Main topics:

♦  effectiveness of EU climate diplomacy in the context of "Copenhagen Accord" and the results of COP 16 in Cancun,

♦  assessment of the EU's aspirations to lead the global climate negotiations,

♦  effectiveness of "ambitious" policy of the EU (as well as of Poland) in the international context

♦  factors limiting the effectiveness of the EU - the lack of internal coherence and underdeveloped external instruments

♦  consultations and building coalitions with other countries in the global climate negotiations,

♦  the possibility that the European Union will adopt the outcome of negotiations' next targets.