B A S I C BASIC WORKSHOP FUTURE INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE POLICY Sao Paulo, 7-9 August 2006 Background Paper 1 History and status of the international climate change negotiations on a future climate agreement Niklas Höhne 1 , Gylvan Meira Filho 2 , Jacques Marcovitch 2 , Farhana Yamin 3 , Sara Moltmann 1 1 Ecofys, Germany 2 Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Sao Paolo 3 Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex Revised Version March 2007 This paper has been prepared as part of the BASIC Project with funding from the Environment Direc- torate General of the European Commission. Additional funding for BASIC has also been kindly pro- vided by the UK, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The views and opinions ex- pressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors and not those of the funders or the BASIC Pro- ject Team as a whole. This paper, and others from the BASIC Project, can be downloaded from the BASIC Project website at http://www.basic-project.net/