He was representing the Sultanate in the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the 11th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP).
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“I think the aspect of climate change that probably most people don’t understand and need to is the long time scales involved”, said Holdren.
The president spoke by phone with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India on Tues. about an agreement in to account right here & conferred by phone this current week with President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, Mr. Kerry stated.
After seven days of talks at the UN COP21 climate meeting in Paris, the negotiating parties have signed off on a draft text that is expected to be finalised by Thursday and published on Friday.
They want a new climate agreement in Paris to recognize a more diverse pool of climate finance “donor countries” who will contribute to the goal of raising $100 billion a year by 2020 and more in the years beyond to help developing nations grow and cope with the effects of climate change. That’s not to say that the U.S. shouldn’t do more than its less wealthy counterparts, but any deal should be “nuanced and flexible” in how it parcels out responsibility, U.S. Climate Envoy Todd Stern said at a press conference. We were ranked in the bottom 5 for climate change policy.
Earnest did not elaborate about Tuesday’s call, but says the US has played a leading role in securing emissions commitments from other nations and that the administration is optimistic about the outcome of the climate conference.
Negotiators from 195 countries are trying to agree an accord in Paris to slow climate change by steering the global economy away from its ever-growing reliance on fossil fuels.
However, a number of nations vulnerable to climate change – including all Pacific island states – want 1.5 degrees to be the limit.
Scientific analyses of the pledges countries have made to cut climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions say they would put the world on track for around 3 degrees Celsius of warming.
This is also supported by the ACP countries, which include some of the world’s poorest countries like Malawi and Burundi, and island nations like Fiji, which fear global warming could threaten their very survival. This will make us more efficient, save health-care costs and increase the productivity of our cities and our agriculture.
BASIC countries are also facing pressure from the United States and the European Union to widen the base of countries making climate finance donations, although on a “voluntary” basis, covering emerging economies.
The U.S.is likely to find a willingness to compromise on the mandates within any agreement, if only because the question may determine whether the deal has to be approved by a U.S. Congress dominated by Republicans resistant to acting on climate change-something that would be dead on arrival in Washington.
Warning of the price of inaction, Kerry said the United States spent US$126 billion previous year undoing the damage of eight huge storms.
The EU will pay 475 million euros to support climate action in the partner countries up to 2020. The 28-year-old is not a newcomer to the negotiation table on climate change.
While smog is a different environmental problem, much of it is blamed on coal-fired power plants and vehicle emissions, which also are key sources of carbon emissions. On Monday, Beijing issued its first ever red alert for smog, urging schools to close and invoking restrictions on factories and traffic.
Fossil fuels still meet about 80 percent of the world’s energy demand, though the share of renewable energy including hydro, solar and wind power is growing, particularly in electricity generation.
Ministers from around the world have begun high-level talks aimed at getting a new worldwide climate deal, with the pressure on to reach an ambitious agreement.
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“So a good agreement should have a mention of the 1.5-degree C as an ultimate goal that we must have in the next 20 years which is really critical to the Philippines” although the country remains flexible “in terms of how to reach an agreement and the language that will have to get there”, La Viña explained.
