The Doha climate conference, COP18/CMP8, starting tomorrow will be the first COP summit to be “paper smart”, officials said yesterday.
“While the negotiations and meetings that take place during these annual conferences are critical to developing climate change policy, an unfortunate side-effect is the amount of documents that often need to be printed and circulated among delegates,” a release issued by COP18/CMP8 Doha said.
“To make COP18/CMP8 Doha as green as possible, the paper-smart initiative will be used. The scheme, which is already being used in the New York headquarters of the UN, has until now never been
transported to a COP meeting,” it said.
“It is part of a directive by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, to make the UN a paperless organisation by 2015. By making the COP18/CMP8 paper smart rather than paperless, delegates can manage their own use of paper resources by printing only the documents that they need,” the release said.