CAN International Side Event - Durban Expectations - Mexican Respondent
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Lies and NZ Statistics
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Delegates will be fascinated to discover that New Zealand won’t release its forestry emission and removal projections to NZ NGOs so that it can “avoid prejudice to the substantial economic interests of NZ,” and “enable the Minister to carry on without prejudice, or disadvantage, negotiations.”
This raises the question of what forestry projections has New Zealand been providing to Parties in the UNFCCC negotiations these past couple of years? Perhaps New Zealand’s Minister of Climate Change Negotiations hides the real figures in his briefcase while his officials hand out merry works of fiction to fellow delegates. ECO encourages readers to enquire for clear information from the NZ delegation on its LULUCF assumptions (and while you’re at it, you might want to ask about the substantive amounts of offsetting that is core to New Zealand’s positioning).
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ECO 3, Bonn 2011, Spanish Version
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En esta Edición:
- ¿La Mitigación, cuándo es “significativa”?
- El drama de las agendas SBI & SBSTA
- ¡Este es nuestro hogar también!
- Avances en Adaptación, posibles en Bonn
- El Rayo del día
- Ludwig en Bonn
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Australian World Environment Day Rally
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Yesterday Australia witnessed huge rallies across the country – of people actually calling for a new tax. Rallying to support the Gillard Government’s plan to introduce a carbon tax in July next year – tens of thousands of people in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra, Brisbane and Hobart (I bet some of you didn’t know that Australia even had that many cities!) – said YES to a carbon tax. This undermines the concerted campaign from big coal, and a certain opposition party running a relentlessly negative campaign. With luck this will add upwards pressure on the starting price of carbon when the tax is introduced in July 2012.
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Brave New Zealand!
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One of the first things the current Zealand Government did when it came to power was to announce its intention to replace the country’s existing Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategies. Both had strong Green Party support because of the moves towards favouring renewable energy over the burning of fossil fuels.
In yesterday’s workshop, the New Zealand delegate did not signal any major changes from the current strategy – though she did do some special pleading for her small island (developed) state. So small! Such a small part of global emissions!
So imagine ECO’s surprise when a draft copy of the “new” Energy Strategy landed on our desk. It is now a fancy looking 40 page booklet (laid out with a whole lot of pretty pictures!) whose top priority is to “develop petroleum and mineral fuel resources,” ahead of renewable energy and new energy technologies.
So thinking small after all? Link: http://bit.ly/gjwl6M
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ECO 2, Bangkok 2011, English version
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CAN Position - Los cimientos de Cancún - Nov 2010
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CAN International NEWS
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December 9, 2010
World NGO Leaders call on Ministers to deliver climate agreement
Heads of WWF, Greenpeace, Oxfam, and CAN call out blocking countries
[On demand webcast available]
[Cancún, Mexico] The leaders of four international environment and
development organizations here at the climate talks in Cancún urged
Ministers to produce a strong and meaningful climate agreement and called
out individual countries for blocking progress in the climate talks under
way here.
An on-demand webcast of the panl is available now at:
http://webcast.cc2010.mx/webmedia_en.html?id=247
Leaders participating on the panel included:
- Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International;
Governments should stop blaming each other and have the courage and the
vision to be remembered by the people of the world. This is not a winners
and losers option, we must all win
- Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director, Oxfam International;
³With just two days left in the Cancun talks, we are in a position to move
forward on a number of significant issues. Now it¹s time for the negotiators
to stop blocking and get to work negotiating. We need some practical
progress to build trust, confidence and momentum that will deliver concrete
results here in Cancun for poor people around the world. If they do this,
ministers can final lay to rest the ghosts of Copenhagen once and for all
and move us forward in the fight against climate change.²
- Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director, Greenpeace International;
"Minsters here in Cancun can make history this week, they can set in motion
a sequence of events that will build hope for the future, mark a transition
to a fair and just world in which the environment and equity go hand in
hand, they can build the trust needed to deliver a climate saving treaty in
Durban."
- David Turnbull, Executive Director, CAN International.
When Obama came into office I was as optimistic as any that we would see a
sea change in these talks. Unfortunately it appears the President and his
administration are paying too much attention to the climate-denying Senators
in Washington DC rather than living up to the goals they have set forward in
public time and time again. They are blocking progress on increased
transparency in their own reporting, while demanding more from China and
India on that same issue.²
On-demand Webcast: http://webcast.cc2010.mx/webmedia_en.html?id=247
(www.unfccc.int)
Where: UNFCCC Press Conference Room Luna, Moon Palace, Cancún
Original webcast: 11:30 AM local (17:30 GMT), Thursday, December 9, 2010
Who: World NGO Leaders on Cancún climate talks
Climate Action Network (CAN) is a global network of over 550
non-governmental organizations working to promote government and individual
action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable
levels. For more information go to: www.climatenetwork.org
<http://www.climatenetwork.org/> .
For more information contact:
Hunter Cutting: +52(1) 998-108-1313
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CAN International - Media Advisory/Webcast Notice - December 9th
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December 9, 2010
World NGO Leaders to call on Ministers to deliver climate agreement
Cancún climate talks panel (webcast live)
[Cancún, Mexico] The leaders of four international environment and
development organizations have traveled to Cancún to call upon Ministers to
produce a strong and meaningful climate agreement in talks underway here
hosted by the UNFCCC.
Climate Action Network will host a media panel for the leaders to share
their call, Thursday, December 9, at 11:30 AM local (17:30 GMT), in Room
Luna of the Azteca building of the Moon Palace in Cancún, host to the UNFCCC
negotiations.
Leaders participating on the panel will include:
€ Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International;
€ Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director, Oxfam International;
€ Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director, Greenpeace International; and
€ David Turnbull, Executive Director, CAN International.
What: World NGO leaders share their call upon Ministers in the Cancún
climate talks
Where: UNFCCC Press Conference Room Luna, Moon Palace, Cancún
Webcast Live: http://webcast.cc2010.mx/ (www.unfccc.int)
When: 11:30 AM local (17:30 GMT), Thursday, December 9, 2010
Who: NGO experts on UNFCCC negotiations
Climate Action Network (CAN) is a global network of over 550
non-governmental organizations working to promote government and individual
action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable
levels. For more information go to: www.climatenetwork.org
<http://www.climatenetwork.org/> .
For more information contact:
Hunter Cutting: +52(1) 998-108-1313
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LULUCF: Moment of Decision
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The future of Annex I forests and their role in climate change mitigation is about to be decided here in Cancun.
ECO has long highlighted how inappropriate and possibly fraudulent LULUCF accounting rules could be used by Annex I Parties to avoid accounting for their forestry emissions. This week a group of NGOs assessed the scale of these impacts, in particular, the magnitude of proposed forest management baselines relative to the ambition of Parties’ pledges. Astonishingly, the emission reduction efforts of some Parties could be reduced by up to 66% as a consequence of unaccounted emissions from logging their forests.
There is still more than one proposal on the table, and it is clear that the impact of forest management accounting on countries’ pledges will differ depending on the approach agreed upon.
A review process was proposed by developing countries earlier this year to evaluate the robustness of favoured baseline proposals by Annex I countries. The new KP Chair’s text calls on Parties to provide the required information by February 2011 and for expert reviewers to conclude their review by May.
But let’s be clear. The impact of the proposed reference levels is unacceptable and a review won’t fix that. However, broadening the review to include an objective analysis of all accounting options could help Parties make an informed decision about which approach should be used in the second commitment period. To do this, Parties would need to provide information about each of the potential options on the table and how it will impact their pledges.
This analysis is urgently required for a meaningful discussion on numbers. That will achieve two crucial things: the discussion of ‘numbers’ will go forward with consideration of all potential options, and decisions will be made based on the likely real impacts on the climate.
| Party | Emission Reduction Pledge % 2020 | Unaccounted Logging Emissions % |
| Canada | -17 | +1.4 |
| New Zealand | -10 to -20 | +66.0 |
| Norway | -30 to -40 | +8.7 |
| Russian Fed | -15 to -25 | +5.5 |
| Australia | -5 to -15 | +4.0 |
| Japan | -25 | +3.6 |
| EU | -20 to -30 | +2.7 |
| Switzerland | -20 to -30 | +2.4 |
Notes: Figures are percentages of country-specific base years. Pledged emission reductions for 2020 (rel 1990) from FCCC/KP/AWG/2010/INF.2/Rev.1. Unaccounted logging emissions equals the difference between Party’s proposed reference levels and average of historical net emissions. The estimate of average historical net emissions from Annex I forest management calculated using data from 1990-2008 (forest land remaining forest land) from Parties’ 2010 inventory submissions. Any adjustments were made on consultation with Parties and technical experts. Japan has not yet indicated whether its pledges include accounting for forest management.
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