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Fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP14), Poznan, Poland, 1-12 December 2008.

IUCN recommends that COP 14:

√ Calls on Parties to conclude negotiations on an effective, comprehensive and equitable climate change regime beyond 2012 in line with the ultimate objective of the Convention, by the Conference of Parties in Copenhagen in 2009; so as to ensure that there is no gap between the first and second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol;

√ Calls on Parties to the UNFCCC to adopt emission reduction targets post-2012 that will reduce the risk of global average temperature exceeding 2°C above preindustrial levels by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all sources at least 50% below 1990 levels by 2050, including:

- binding quantified emission reduction targets by all developed countries in the upper range of -25% to -40% emission reductions below 1990 levels by 2020, and

-80% to -95% below 1990 levels emission reductions by 2050; and

- substantial voluntary, measurable and verifiable actions by some developing countries by 2020, and in all regions by 2050, which are consistent with the above global temperature target on the basis of voluntary and nationally appropriate mitigations actions, supported and enabled by technology transfer, financing and capacity-building, in a measurable, reportable and verifiable manner.

√ Calls on Parties to urgently plan and promptly implement policies and measures for mitigation, with special attention to land use, land use change, forestry, agriculture, livestock, and from the energy, transportation and urban and industrial sectors of their economies;

√ Calls on Parties to consider the effects of mitigation options on biodiversity as a determinant element to select mitigation measures;

√ Urges Parties to explore financing for technologies that help to reduce emissions while not having adverse impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services and livelihoods.