Dear Friends/Co-sailors,
The UN climate talks in Poland have come to an end with delegates
reaching a compromise on how to fight global warming; which leaves many
unhappy.
In fact, I can call it a failure with UN officials admitting
that the current efforts were not adequate
to halt the pace of global warming. The rich and polluting countries did not show
any legal and moral commitment. Even
financial commitment was too less.
I am pasting below links to some of the news reports for
your information.
Thanks and regards,
Ranjan
Last-minute deal saves fractious UN climate talks with
delegates reaching a compromise on how to fight global warming.
After 30
hours of deadlock, they approved a pathway to a new global climate treaty in
Paris in 2015.
The
agreement was achieved after a series of last minute compromises often
involving single words in draft texts.
Negotiators
also made progress on the contentious issue of loss and damage that developing
countries are expected to suffer in a warming world.
South Scores 11th-Hour Win on Climate Loss and Damage
The U.N.
climate talks in Warsaw ended in dramatic fashion Saturday evening in what
looked like a schoolyard fight with a mob of dark-suited supporters packed
around the weary combatants, Todd Stern of the United States and Sai Navoti of
Fiji representing G77 nations.
It took two
weeks and 36 straight hours of negotiations to get to this point.
"We
need those promises to add up to enough real action to keep us below the
internationally agreed two-degree temperature rise.” -- U.N. Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon.
At issue in
this classic North versus South battle was the creation of a third pillar of a
new climate treaty to be finalised in 2015. Countries of the South, with 80
percent of the world’s people, finally won, creating a loss and damage pillar
to go with the mitigation (emissions reduction) and adaptation pillars.
US and China must act on climate change rhetoric, says
German minister
The US and
China need to put their rhetoric on climate change into practice, the German
environment minister, Peter Altmaier, said on Monday after United Nations
climate change negotiations in Warsaw failed to reach agreement in key areas.
Disappointed
by the lack of significant breakthroughs, Altmaier demanded concrete action on
climate change from bigger industrialised nations ahead of a crunch meeting in
Paris in 2015.
"China
and the US will have to take a position at some point. Both President Obama and
the new Chinese leadership have said they will prioritise climate protection,
but that has to become visible in practice," he said, and demanded both
nations set binding national climate targets as soon as possible.
"It's
there [in the US and China] where the largest C02 emissions are produced, it's
there where we have to achieve something in the coming months," added
Altmaier, who briefly attended the talks last week.
"If we
look at the hopes of millions of young people who ask when are you going to
finally take climate protection seriously, when is something going to change,
then it has to be said we've probably fallen short of the expectations,"
the minister told German radio station Bayerischer Rundfunk.
During the
conference, regional German environment ministers wrote a letter appealing to
chancellor, Angela Merkel, to push for an EU-wide C02 reduction target of 55%
by 2030 as an impulse for key nations such as China to make their "own
essential contributions" to global climate negotiations.
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