While the negotiation of a second commitment period can be enhanced by consideration of mid-term and long-term emissions pathways and goals, it is not appropriate to specify these pathways and goals in the form of legally-binding commitments.
Presently, there is no requirement that the fulfilment of the current eligibility requirements by a Party should be reassessed in the context of a second commitment period.
It also supported the urgent pursuit of a second commitment period, considering that negotiations should be concluded before the 2009 meeting in Copenhagen in order to ensure a seamless transition from the first to the second period.
We are willing to increase our target to 30 per cent, and this could be part of a second commitment period under Kyoto, but only if all developed countries and advanced developing countries do their fair share of emission reduction efforts and if we address properly the weaknesses currently undermining the environmental integrity of the Kyoto Protocol.
Stressing the paramount importance of a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, he said that the developed countries' idea of a voluntary approach to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions was bound to fail.
Moreover, while not in favour of a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, Japan believed that elements of that instrument could, once improved, be incorporated into a new framework.
It was therefore essential to make the Doha Climate Change Conference a success and to implement the commitments reached at previous conferences, particularly the adoption of a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol.
Since the first commitment period came to an end in 2012, the seventeenth session of the Conference of the Parties (Durban Conference), held in Durban, South Africa in 2011, decided to work on the content of a second commitment period set to begin in 2013.
Looking ahead to the Durban Conference, he urged all delegations to work towards the establishment of a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol and the operationalization of the Cancun Agreements, including the proposed Green Climate Fund.
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