To Discuss Framework And Modalities For International Consultation & Analysis
Urmi A Goswami NEW DELHI
BARELY a month before the Cancun climate summit, ministers of the BASIC countries will be meeting for a crucial round of consultations in Tianjin on Monday.
With wounds still raw from the chaotic United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen last December, negotiators are making final preparations for next month
The purpose of this guide is to assist developing country negotiators and others who are working on REDD-plus. The guide is divided into three parts: Part I considers REDD-plus in the negotiations; Part II contains general negotiating tips for new REDD-plus negotiators and others; Part III contains UNFCCC documents that are often referred to in REDD-plus negotiations.
India has reached out to small island states, which are most vulnerable to climate change, to convey its sensitivity to their concerns on the issue, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has said.
The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) had asked emerging economies like India and China to take legally binding cuts on carbon emissions at the Copenhagen conference last year.
Climate finance or additional resources for developing countries to fight global warming was an integral element of the Copenhagen Accord drawn up at the climate summit in December 2009. But preparatory meetings for the next round of climate negotiations indicate that the sinners of climate change have already begun to backtrack.
Mministers and other top officials made progress on establishing the details of how hundreds of billions of dollars in climate aid will be raised and distributed.
The Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) submitted by non-Annex I country Parties to the UNFCCC had an initial deadline of 31st of January but are continuing to be submitted. There have now been 43 submissions and 28 of these make direct reference to the transport sector. The Bridging the Gap Initiative has analysed these submissions from a transport perspective.
The Copenhagen Accord was cobbled together in hasty closed-doors consultations in the final hours of the failing climate meet by a select group of 26 countries. The Accord did not even get the imprimatur of the UNFCCC. Copenhagen failed to deliver a comprehensive and legally binding emissions reduction treaty.
