Climate: China skeptical about the short-term financing
While the 27 countries of the European Union have just announced in Brussels the release in three years of a sum of 7,2 billion euros to help developing countries cope with global warming, China has since responded the Copenhagen climate conference that this is not the solution.
The response was quick. While the 27 have managed to agree on immediate aid to developing countries, China retorts through its deputy foreign minister, He Yafei, that short-term funding is not the answer. reply.
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"What we are talking about is the short term and I say that it is not enough. That is not the key ”(of the problem), he declared during a press briefing.
The representative of the G77 - which brings together 130 developing countries - was even more severe with the European announcement of such aid, deemed "insignificant". "It is not only insignificant but it actually feeds even more distrust of the intentions of the leaders of the European Union with regard to climate change", declared the Sudanese delegate, Lumumba Stanislas Dia-Ping, whose country chairs the G77.
"But what will we do in three years?"
“It is relatively easy for developed countries to present figures for the short term. But what will we do in three years? ”Asked He Yafei. "If we have to make a commitment until 2050, I doubt the sincerity of the commitment of the developed countries: why don't they talk about their financial commitment until 2050?", He added.
"The most important thing would be to have an operational mechanism at least in the medium term, ensuring funds for developing countries," said the Chinese minister, recalling the historic responsibility of developed countries in the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
$ 100 billion needed
At a summit in Brussels where the countries of the European Union tried to harmonize their positions on global warming to weigh in Copenhagen, it was decided Friday to pay 2,4 billion euros per year for three years (2010, 2011 and 2012), to help the countries most vulnerable to global warming.
In Copenhagen, it is precisely this aid from the rich countries to the developing countries that the discussions come up against for the moment. For the G77, the signing of a binding agreement on a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is linked to financial aid from the wealthiest. To cope with global warming, the needs have been estimated at some 100 billion dollars.
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