Submitted by dturnbull on
Press briefing in Tianjin, China with (l-r): Raman Mehta (ActionAid India), Angela Anderson (USCAN), Ailun Yang (Greenpeace-China)
Submitted by dturnbull on
Press briefing in Tianjin, China with (l-r): Raman Mehta (ActionAid India), Angela Anderson (USCAN), Ailun Yang (Greenpeace-China)
Submitted by Anonymous on
Whilst parties are coming to the realisation that we need to move on from ‘nothing is agreed until everything is agreed’, there is not much movement yet toward ‘nothing is agreed until enough is agreed’. For those who don’t yet have a firm grasp on what ‘enough’ is, have no fear. ECO is here to show the way.
‘Enough’ is a set of outcomes that doesn’t just harvest the low hanging fruit but also cracks some serious political nuts and builds essential trust, so that next year negotiations don’t go around in the same circles as this year . . . and the year before that, and . . .
‘Enough’ clarifies the road ahead: what it is that Parties are negotiating towards (a Fair, Ambitious and legally Binding agreement), by when (COP 17 in South Africa) and through which milestones.
So here are some highlights from the Cancun Building Blocks which will be unveiled by the Climate Action Network at its side event today:
• Agree a shared vision that keeps below 1.5o C warming, links it to the short and long term actions of Parties, and outlines key principles for global cooperation.
• Establish a new climate fund along with a governance structure that is transparent, regionally balanced and ensures the COP decides policies, programme priorities and eligibility criteria. Agree on a process to secure sufficient scale and sources of finance.
• Establish an adaptation framework along with its institutions, goals and principles and a mandate to agree a mechanism on loss and damage.
• Put in place a technology executive committee and provide a mandate to agree measurable objectives and plans.
• Agree to stop deforestation and degradation of natural forests and related emissions completely by 2020, and ensure sufficient finance to meet this goal.
• Implement the roll-out of a capacity building program.
• Acknowledge the gigatonne gap between current pledges and science-based targets, and ensure the gap will be closed in the process going forward.
• Agree a mandate to negotiate by COP17 individual emission reduction commitments for industrialised countries that match an aggregate reduction target of more than 40% below 1990 levels by 2020.
• Agree that each developed country will produce a Zero Carbon Action Plan by 2012.
• Minimise loopholes by adopting LULUCF rules that deliver emission reductions from the forestry and land use sectors; market mechanism rules that prevent double counting of emission reductions or finance; and banking rules that minimise damage from ‘hot air’ (surplus AAUs).
• Agree on producing climate-resilient Low Carbon Action Plans for developing countries, and establish a mechanism to match NAMAs with support. Mandate SBI and SBSTA to develop MRV guidelines for adoption in COP17.
• Commission at COP 16 a technical paper to explore the mitigation required to keep warming below 1.5° C, and outline a process to negotiate how that effort will be shared between countries.
• Agree a clear mandate that ensures that we get a full fair, ambitious and binding (FAB) deal at COP 17 in South Africa – one that includes the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. It is this clear pathway forward, with an agreed destination and an agreed route, that will make agreement at Cancun possible.
Meaningful progress in each area, agreement to work toward a legally binding deal, work plans agreed on each key area, and a long term vision for future negotiations, will deliver a successful and balanced package.
Submitted by dturnbull on
Picture of majority of the CAN-International Board, at the CAN Strategy Retreat in Bonn, April 2010.
Kneeling (l-r): Marianne Werth, Steven Guilbeaul, Georgina Woods, Nina Jamal
Standing (l-r): Jasper Inventor, Marstella Jack, Gaines Campbell, Sanjay Vashist, Emmanuel Seck
Not pictured: Peter Bahouth, Matthias Duwe, Golam Rabanni, Mohamed Adow
Submitted by dturnbull on
Participants in the CAN Southern Civil Society pre-COP16 prep meeting listen to a presentation from colleagues on dynamics between developed and developing countries in the climate negotiations.
8 September 2010, Mexico City
Submitted by dturnbull on
Participants in the CAN Southern Civil Society pre-COP16 Prep meeting discuss threats to developing countries related to climate change in a breakout group.
7 September 2010, Mexico City
Submitted by dturnbull on
Notes and agenda from the CAN Southern Civil Society Pre-COP16 Preparatory Meeting (final draft)
Submitted by admin on
Distinguished Delegates, today I speak on behalf of the Climate Action Network.
My name is Raju Chetri. I am from Nepal, and the future of my family and my people depends on the success of these negotiations. Yet I have only one minute to tell you what civil society wants from the LCA track.
The emissions reduction pledges made by many of you before and since Copenhagen, if met, would raise global average temperatures by above three degrees.
What would be the impact of that be on a vulnerable country like Nepal?
How can we survive that impact, when attempts by vulnerable countries to create an insurance mechanism to shield us from disaster have been blocked?
But we are not the only ones that will suffer from climate change. When your grandkids come and ask you where you were, when the future of the planet was decided, could you honestly say you were pushing as hard as you could - to get this issue resolved as soon as possible?
We have had enough of your time-wasting. You know what you need to do this year. Cut pollution so that global emissions peak by 2015. Provide the support that we need to cope with the problem you are exacerbating. Make the decision in Cancun. Do this, and give us back our future.
Thank you.
Submitted by Anonymous on
First place fossil goes to these four Parties for risking the good faith and integrity of the negotiations by blocking all attempts to secure a technical review of the 1.5 target and suggesting that vulnerable countries use Google to get information that they need/want. They did this in the teeth of emotional pleas from vulnerable countries and numerous rounds of diplomatic efforts to reach a compromise.
Saudi Arabia even gave us a list of traded goods which would be in peril from a 1.5 target. See if you can spot which one is their true concern: rice, cocoa, tomatoes, coal, oil. (If you’re stuck, look up their chief export on Google.)
Submitted by admin on
