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Comments on the Lima COP20 decision on the Durban Platform

Penang, 18 Dec (Meena Raman) –The most important and most fought over outcome of the UN Climate Conference in Lima was a decision adopted by the Conference of the Parties (COP) which the Peruvian Minister in charge of the conference termed ‘The Lima call for climate action’.

This COP decision relates to the work of the Durban Platform, which is the track in the UN climate negotiations that leads…

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After reading this, and other articles about the Lima meetings, a couple of thoughts come to mind. Considering the issue these politicians and scientists are dealing with, "the best we can do" and "good enough for now" just do not cut it. I'm so ready to convince myself that "fuck it all" is the best approach for me, for now, considering my age and my politics. I'm getting tired of this, and bored with the bullshit.

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While United Nations officials had been scheduled to release the plan on Friday at noon, longstanding divisions between rich and poor countries kept them wrangling through Friday night and well into Saturday.

At its core, the draft is expected to require every nation to put forward, over the next six months, a detailed domestic policy plan to cut its emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases from coal, gas and oil. Those plans, which would be published on a United Nations website, would form the basis of the accord to be signed next December and enacted by 2020.

That basic structure represents a breakthrough in the impasse that has plagued the United Nations’ 20 years of efforts to create a serious global warming deal. Until now, negotiations had followed a divide put in place by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which required that developed countries act but did not require anything of developing nations, including China and India, two of the largest greenhouse gas polluters.

But on its own, that political breakthrough will not achieve the stated goal of the deal: to stop the rate of global emissions enough to prevent the atmosphere from warming more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit over the pre-industrial average. That is the point at which scientists say the planet will tip into dangerous and irreversible effects, such as melting sea ice, rising sea levels, increased flooding and droughts, food and water shortages, and more extreme storms.

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Ban Ki-moon preparó platos peruanos con ingredientes nativos y amigables con el clima

El secretario general de las Naciones Unidas, Ban Ki-moon, preparó y degustó hoy diversos platos de la gastronomía peruana hechos con ingredientes nativos y amigables con el medio ambiente, en el marco de la cumbre sobre el cambio climático (COP20).

Acompañado por su esposa, Yoo Soon-taek, el secretario general de las Naciones Unidas se animó a elaborar un plato a base de quinua, olluco, oca, papa…

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Conocimiento del Clima para la Acción

Como parte de las actividades del Foro Resiliencia Andina frente al Cambio Climático organizado por el Pabellón de Montañas en Voces por el Clima, la Dra. Sonia Salas Domínguez, Presidenta de REDAR, presentó la ponencia “Percepciones, esfuerzos y aspiraciones de los pobladores rurales andinos para la mitigación y adaptación al cambio climático”.

“Quiero…

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If the agreement described in the article is true, my reactions: Weak. Probably close to the best we can hope for. We’re screwed. The politicians can go home and say, “We tried.”

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But the key to the political success of the draft — and its main shortcoming, negotiators concede — is that it does not bind nations to a single, global benchmark for emissions reductions.

The idea is to reach a global deal to be signed by world leaders in Paris next year, incorporating 196 separate emissions pledges.

“But the great hopes for the process are also gone,” he added. “Many people are resigned,” he said, to the likelihood that even a historic new deal would not reduce greenhouse gas levels enough to keep the planet’s atmospheric temperature from rising 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Hmmmm. No more gas, oil or coal by 2050? Nice goal, but here’s the story. I don't see the USA, China, India, etc. behind this proposal, so we know it's a decent effort, but not likely to emerge from the Paris talks.

A draft negotiating text was circulated yesterday at the UN climate summit in Lima, Peru that would cut carbon emissions to zero by 2050, earlier than many other proposals, and could spell the end of the fossil fuel industry. It’s one of the most ambitious proposals to come out of the conference.

According to The Guardian of London, the countries behind this aggressive proposal to address climate change include Norway, Sweden, the Marshall Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru and Panama. Their hope is that it will provide a negotiating framework heading into next December’s final talks in Paris.

In addition, about 60 national leaders are endorsing the need for a long-term goal to be art of any agreement that emerges from the discussions in Paris next year.

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This article is more academic than most, and provides a description of the most likely legal structure that will emerge from the climate negotiations and discussions that are starting in Lima and will culminate in Paris. It also addresses some of the sticky issues that will be discussed.

So, if you want to know what all this is about and have an academic interest, this article is helpful.

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