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tense negotiations in Copenhagen, the UN optimistic




by recyclinage » 09/12/09, 13:49

Negotiators got to the heart of the matter on Tuesday in Copenhagen, seeking an agreement to halt global warming, with an incident witnessing fever rising in the corridors of negotiations.

The leak of a text of suggestions from Denmark, president of the climate conference, sparked a blow in developing countries, denouncing "a serious violation which threatens the success of the negotiation process", according to Sudanese delegate Lumumba Stanislas Dia Ping, on behalf of the G-77 (coalition of 130 developing countries), which however ruled out leaving the conference.

The Danish Presidency has denied the existence of a "secret Danish text" for a new agreement. The papers circulating "are working drafts and form the basis of informal consultations," Climate Minister Connie Hedegaard said.

From New York, the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, displayed his optimism on Tuesday and said he expected "a solid agreement (...) which will be effective immediately".

And while the controversy over the "Climategate" - climatologists accused of manipulating data after the publication of their pirated emails - is still alive, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has warned that the first decade of the 1850st century will be "the last decade. hottest ever recorded "since the first instrumental readings in XNUMX.

On Monday, the United States had caused a wave of optimism when the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had judged that CO2 was a pollutant threatening public health, thus paving the way for the first time. regulation of this type of emissions.

European countries remain divided on the opportunity to revise upward their promise to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which could be increased from 20% to 30% by 2020 (compared to 1990 ) if an ambitious global agreement was reached at the end of the summit in 10 days.

The question of financing, in particular by developed countries, for the adaptation of the most vulnerable countries was also widely debated.

"We need firm commitments, figures and a timetable," Bruno Sekoli, negotiator for Lesotho, a small landlocked kingdom in South Africa, and chairman of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), told AFP. ), who praised an "open, active, dynamic" process.

"Developing countries are calling for a predictable, sustainable system. They say: glass beads, we have already been hit," said French expert Pierre Radanne, who advises African countries.

The director general of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Nobuo Tanaka, warned on Tuesday that a failure in Copenhagen would cost the world economy $ 500 billion a year to return to the goal of a limitation warming up to + 2 ° compared to pre-industrial levels.

Emissions reductions are fiercely negotiated behind closed doors, but the urgency to act on a daily basis is also recalled at all times, often with humor. When exiting the metro, no one escapes their badge, distributed by young Danes who thank passengers "for taking the metro and saving 85% of CO2".

Happy calendar for the Danish capital, it was named Tuesday the "greenest" city among 30 European metropolises subjected to an ecological test carried out on behalf of a German group.

AFP


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