New York City, November 16, 2005

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change announced the release of a
report
outlining options and recommendations for advancing the international
climate change effort post-2012. The report is from the Climate
Dialogue at
Pocantico. There a group of 25 senior policymakers and stakeholders
from 15
countries convened by the Pew Center discussed Climate Change
negotiations.

The report was formally released at an event yesterday in the hearing
room
of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hosted by Senator
Richard G.
Lugar (R-Indiana) and Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Delaware), the
committee’s Chairman and Ranking Minority Member.

At the event, Senators Lugar and Biden announced the introduction of a
Sense of the Senate resolution calling for the United States to
participate
in negotiations under the Framework Convention on Climate Change to
establish mitigation commitments by all major emitting countries.

Information on the Pocantico dialogue, and the Lugar-Biden resolution:
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The new Pocantico report also will be the focus of “Beyond 2012 - A
High-Level Forum,” a side event at COP 11/MOP 1 in Montreal featuring
an
exchange of views among Ministers and senior business and NGO leaders.
The
event will take place at 1-3 pm on Wednesday, December 7, in the Palais
des
Congrès.