El Acuerdo del 2015 fallará ante los ojos del público mundial si no contribuye significativamente a
incrementar las acciones de adaptación para los países en desarrollo. Acompáñenos hoy al “Side Event” de CAN para saber más sobre el rol de Pérdidas y Daños, el tema huérfano en el acuerdo de 2015.
Cuándo: 13:15-14:45
Dónde: Room Solar
Países desarrollados: ¿A menudo se preguntan cómo se puede ayudar a los países vulnerables frente a los crecientes costos del cambio climático por pérdidas y daños, dados los desafíos fiscales que enfrentan en casa?
Países vulnerables: Desesperan porque los costos por pérdidas y daños serán para nadie más que para aquéllos que sufren los impactos?
ECO comprende que la respuesta a estas dos preguntas puede abordarse con una propuesta. Los Grandes del Carbón, o Criminales del Carbón como algunos les gusta llamarlos, las compañías más responsables por las eisiones de gases de invernadero. Deben pagar un impuesto por la extracción de combustibles fósiles en el mecanismo internacional de pérdida y daño de Varsovia.
El informe innovador lanzado en noviembre pasado por Rick Heede del Instituto de Responsabilidad Climática atribuye un 3,5% de las emisiones globales por combustibles fósiles, desde que comenzó la revolución industrial, a los productos de Chevron, un 3,2% a ExxonMobil, 3.1% a Saudi Aramco, 2.5% a BP, 2.2 % a Gazprom y el 2,1% a Shell. En total, un asombroso 63% de las emisiones globales son atribuibles a la extracción del carbón, petróleo y gas, y a la manufactura del cemento, por sólo 90 “Carbon Majors”, las “grandes ligas” del carbón.
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Even though the Secretariat and Parties keep saying that civil society plays a critical role in the negotiations, there’s very little they’re doing to help us participate effectively. The proposed cost recovery policy for side events and exhibits is a case in point. The following is the collective response on behalf of all non-governmental observer constituencies, which offers to work with the Secretariat and Parties to find a real and sustainable solution. Why not give us more than four days and an open and participatory process to do so?
STATEMENT REGARDING COST RECOVERY POLICY ON BEHALF OF ALL OBSERVER CONSTITUENCIES
7 June 2014
On behalf of the constituencies representing business and industry, research groups, indigenous peoples organisations, environmental groups, women and gender, trade unions, local government and municipal authorities, farmers and youth, we would like to express our concern regarding the policy on cost recovery announced in the Secretariat’s information note dated June 4th. This policy threatens to undermine the quality of observer participation in the UNFCCC process.
From its beginning, the UNFCCC has recognised the value of observer participation, most recently during Thursday’s Article 6 dialogue on public participation. Within the SBI negotiations and workshops, numerous ministerial statements and today’s discussion, the Secretariat and Parties have repeatedly acknowledged the “crucial and integral” role of observers in and the value of our contributions to this process.
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ECO realised, with much dismay, that yesterday’s article on “The Visionary Few” missed the important statement by Uganda’s minister on behalf of the LDCs. We are sorry for this oversight, but were excited to hear that the LDCs are taking IPCC science as seriously as environmental NGOs when talking about their long term mitigation goal where: “Total emissions need to reach zero between 2060 and 2080. This means we need urgent actions by all countries to reduce emissions.” Thank you minister, thank you LDCs, and welcome in the club of The Visionary Few.
ECO was jumping for joy during the ADP ministerial when some of the Parties and groups echoed CAN’s call for phasing out all fossil fuel emissions and phasing in a 100% renewable energy future, as early as possible, but no later than 2050.
Phasing-out fossil fuel emissions is of fundamental importance to secure the right to zero-carbon development for all – especially for those whose lives, homes and cultures will be at existential risk even at 1.5°C warming.
ECO is sure that you, Dear Reader, agree that this goal must be met in a way that secures the rights of the world’s poorest people to water, food, health and sustainable energy access, as well as the right of countries to fulfil those. Protecting these universal sustainable development human rights is the key challenge in a world that is desperately striving to drive carbon pollution down to zero in its bid to stave off the worst climate change impacts.
ECO suggests – and we know our friends agree – that full decarbonisation must include achieving 100% renewable and affordable Energy Access for All.
Replacing current energy systems everywhere with renewables by mid-century will be ambitious and challenging. But, quite frankly, the escalating costs of runaway climate impacts mean that not doing it would be even harder, particularly for the most vulnerable.
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Parties might be wondering about those empty seats in the recent ADP contact-group meetings and noted the absence of NGO observers.
ECO doesn’t want you to worry, NGOs were there…well, two of them, representing Climate Justice Now! and Climate Action Network. Both have been allotted a grand total of 2 (yes, that’s two) seats for the ADP contact-group meetings, on behalf of more than a thousand member organisations. Two (luckily very committed) note-takers have been there to observe, what will shape the future of everyone, what’s going on inside and reporting back to the rest of the world locked out of negotiations.
In order for you to identify the CAN observer in the room, ECO has this handy photo for you, although, it probably wouldn’t have been hard to spot amongst all of the empty seats anyway…
ECO finds this to be extremely unfortunate, to say the least. Space constraints have been cited as the reason, and civil society participation has been downsized to fit within the designated space. ECO believes it should work the other way round: the space should be sized according to the overall need, which includes civil society participants just as much electricity, bathrooms, the stale sandwiches and over-priced coffee required for talks to function effectively.
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On the eve of the finance discussion in the ADP today, ECO has been hearing a common refrain in the hallways of the Maritim: “What could countries possibly put in the INDCs on finance (and isn’t it better to just drop the whole idea)?”.
Of course, the INDCs are not the only place in the 2015 agreement to discuss finance commitments. Parties can express collective commitments, aggregate levels and burden-sharing approaches in the agreement itself too. History has shown that aggregate targets aren’t enough, especially when they’re vague and full of loopholes. Individual countries have to commit to concrete actions that reflect their share of global efforts to stay below 2°C.
ECO will count some of the ways this can be done:
Stressed out from the negotiations?
Looking to mingle with fellow conference goers in a relaxed environment?
Join us tonight…
The Security/CAN party kicks off tonight from 2100 in the Maritim’s Rôtisserie – Restaurant & Terrace.
All conference badge wearers welcome!
