In Paris, Fr. Edwin Gariguez, executive secretary of the National Secretariat for Social Action (NASSA)/Caritas Philippines, said the “Carbon Majors” violated and posed threats to Filipinos’ rights to life, water, sanitation, adequate housing, and self-determination.
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“The countries that are looking to compromise on this with the U.S., the question is what will they seek in the bargain?”
Gore says “of course there are disagreements on the wording of this section or that section”.
Gore was speaking Saturday to delegates during an event around the climate negotiations in Paris.
Penn, founder of the J/P Haitian Relief Organization, spoke Saturday on the sidelines of the United Nations climate talks outside of Paris.
“Today as never before the stars are aligned in favor of a strong, concerted action on climate change. We have certainty. The days of dreams have given way to the days of doing”.
“We are at the mid-point in the negotiations and clearly they are advancing, even if it is hard”, said Matthieu Orphelin, spokesman for the environmental group Fondation Nicolas Hulot. The draft had multiple options on that issue – everything from who should pay for a global transition to clean energy to what happens to countries that miss their targets to fight climate change.
“We need a fair, ambitious and transformational deal by Friday”.
“With the French at the helm, I know we are in good hands”, said de Brum. He says, in OR, the shellfish industry is suffering, forest fires are prevalent and the Cascade Mountains are seeing a smaller snowpack.
“I think if a country were to go up against France right now, it would be looked at so badly in the broader global context”, said Jennifer Morgan, an expert in climate change negotiations at the World Resources Institute, a research organisation.
Meanwhile, a Western daily has identified Director General of India’s Bureau of Energy Efficiency Ajay Mathur as one negotiator, who could make or break India at the climate negotiations.
On Monday, ministers from across the world will descend on Paris to try and transform the draft into an agreement.
Ten Democratic U.S. senators have come to Paris to show their support for the climate talks and to stress the “urgency of the issue”.
“The negotiating status is still very far away from the target of trying to achieve a comprehensive, effective, balanced and legally-binding agreement which is equitable to all parties”, Chinese negotiator Xie Zhenhua told journalists.
And the issue of a review and ratchet mechanism, which would see countries revisit pledges they have already made to cut their greenhouse gases up to 2030, and potentially improve on them, also needs to be decided.
China’s chief negotiator on Saturday said that any agreement adopted should be legally binding in its entirety, not just parts of it.
The United States is pushing for aggressive, legally binding provisions that would require governments to monitor, verify and report their emissions reductions to an global body. “There’s no doubt about that”.
“We had hoped that our work would be further advanced”, said Nozipho Mxakato-Diseko of South Africa, who speaks on behalf of more than 130 developing nations.
Immediately after the opening, the negotiators got down to work and they have not stopped.
The chairman of the working group that had been working on the draft gaveled it just before a noon (1100 GMT) deadline after agreeing to make some cosmetic changes requested by various delegations.
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The Draft Paris Outcome includes some tentative accords on the language of various sticking points, but actual numbers and specifics are still on the table for week two. Most relate to how to define the obligations of countries in different stages of development in fighting climate change. The penultimate draft had to be approved under their watch and the final one would be negotiated by the ministers overseen directly by the host French government. During the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009, richer nations agreed to pitch in $100 billion to developing countries in order for them to lessen their dependence on fossil fuels as their economies grow.
