Energy Bangla

WARSAW, POLAND – Today – Global civil society vowed to redouble their efforts to raise the alarm bell on the failure of governments to confront the planetary emergency of climate change as the UN Climate Summit closed twenty-four hours behind schedule.
“Civil society walked out on mass of the Warsaw climate talks to highlight that fossil fuel industry lobbyists have too many governments in their pockets – those lobbyists would be delighted with their return on investment today.” Asad Rehman, Head of International Climate, Friends of the Earth EWNI said.
Emission Cuts
“The blocking by rich industrialised countries has been disgraceful. They blocked any reference to a specific number on pollution controls, such as the 40% called for by the IPCC. Similarly they rejected a target on financing of $70 billion by 2016. The ratcheting up of pre-2020 action is an equally important outcome of these negotiations and yet countries led by the US refused to have any specific numbers included on pollution targets and finance. An abysmal moral failure by the richest people in human history.” Meena Raman, negotiations expert at Third World Network said.
“The agreement here is for countries to discuss their contributions to the international effort toward the ultimate objective of the Convention. That means that post-2020 contributions will have to add up to avoid 1.5C of warming. The negotiations next year will have to grapple with the emissions budget required and how to share it fairly based on historical responsibility and capacities, if the world is truly to avoid dangerous climate change.” Meena Raman, negotiations expert at Third World Network said.