Around 146 countries across the world have submitted their INDCs to the UNFCCC’s Secretariat as yet. This will be the draft text that will form the basis of the negotiations in Paris from November 30 to December 11.
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Highlighting the fact that India is on a development trajectory, the Environment Minister asserted that India does not want the Paris talks to fail. “We live in an entirely different world”, said Elina Bardram, who leads the European Commission’s delegation.
Meanwhile, the minister also invited suggestions from people on various issues related to the environment.
The G20 Heads of State will meet in Turkey in mid-November, followed by the Heads of State meeting of the Commonwealth in Malta just before the Paris Summit opens.
“The developing countries, while undertaking ambitious actions on their own, need to be assisted to mitigate climate change and to adapt and adjust to its impact”, the declaration said. This includes all developed countries under the Convention and 104 developing countries, or nearly 70 percent of UNFCCC developing member states.
The writer is Director, global Centre for Climate Change and Development at the Independent University, Bangladesh.
The rub is this: Stringent requirements for emissions cuts are clearly needed, but negotiators at COP21 may find it impossible to reach an agreement if countries are told they must go beyond the targets laid out in their draft commitments.
For #NowPH, MovePH has teamed up with the National Youth Commission and the Climate Change Commission, with support from USAID Building Low Emission Alternatives to Develop Economic Resilience and Sustainability Project (B-LEADERS).
“This destruction of the natural habitat of fruit eating bats drove the animals to approach human settlements to find food and the virus may have been transmitted during this increased contact resulting from deforestation”, she said.
Pakistan is set to miss submission deadline for its intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) as the prime minister has yet to approve its final draft.
But those plans, if fully implemented, would only hold global temperature rise by the end of the century to around 2.7 degrees Celsius, still well above the 1.5 to 2 degrees maximum most countries are aiming for, the experts said.
“The world is at a critical juncture in its efforts to combat climate change”, warns the global Energy Agency (IEA).
Delegates to a climate summit in December remain divided over fundamental issues including a framework for measuring carbon emissions, the envoy of the host nation said on Tuesday, though she believes a deal to cut global warming will be signed.
However, what is still to be agreed upon is how the $50 billion for adaptation is to be delivered with the GCF being unable to deliver any money yet, and in an even more troubling move, are offering loans instead of grants to vulnerable developing countries for adaptation projects.
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Joeri Rogelj of the global Institute for Applied Systems Analysis said that their study introduced an important new concept which helps them understand how major countries could still assume a leadership role on this highly fragmented playing field.
