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June 2011
Working for Meaningful
Outcomes in Durban
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Introduction
• Durban represents the culmination of negotiations on one of the
most important issues under the UNFCCC: Financing.
• It also represents a critical juncture in the history of the climate
change negotiations: two separate negotiation tracks continuing
resulting in 2 separate outcomes or merging into a single
process and outcome.
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How to ensure that Durban results in
meaningful outcomes, especially for
developing countries?
Go back to what launched this protracted
negotiations:
the FULL, EFFECTIVE AND SUSTAINED
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UNFCCC.
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This is predicated on:
The UNFCCC’s Ultimate Objective: stabilization of
greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would
prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with
the climate system.
Parameters of reaching this ultimate objective:
allow ecosystems to adapt, ensure that food
production is not threatened and to enable economic
development to proceed in a sustainable manner.
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PRINCIPLES
Act on the basis of equity & in accordance with common but
differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.
Accordingly, the developed country Parties should take the lead
in combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof.
Others: precautionary principle & adaptation, vulnerabilities
of developing countries, sustainable development, no
measures to constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable
discrimination or a disguised restriction on international
trade.
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COMMITMENTS
All Parties to undertake measures & cooperate on
mitigation, adaptation, scientific & technical
cooperation, education, training, public awareness,
reporting of national inventories of emissions, etc..
Developed country Parties commit to undertake
mitigation by reducing emissions, to demonstrate
taking lead in “modifying longer-term trends in
anthropogenic emissions”
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Commitments (continued)
•Developed countries to provide new &
additional, adequate & predictable financial
resources to developing country Parties
•Developed countries to meet costs of adaptation
for developing country Parties that are
particularly vulnerable (definition in Convention)
•Developed countries to promote, facilitate,
finance, transfer of or access to ESTs & knowhow
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Key to the Balance of “Common but
Differentiated Responsibilities”:
Article 4.7 : “The extent to which developing
country Parties will effectively implement their
commitments under the Convention will depend
on the effective implementation by developed
country Parties of their commitments under the
Convention related to financial resources and
transfer of technology, and will take fully into
account that economic and social development
and poverty eradication are the first and
overriding priorities of developing country
Parties.”
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Two-Track Negotiations
1/CP.13 on the Bali Action Plan launched the
AWG-LCA in 2008.
AWG-KP began two years earlier .
Developing countries insist on the continuation
of the two-track negotiations.
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Intermediate Milestones:
The Copenhagen Accords which was “noted” but
not adopted.
The Cancun Decisions which established the
Green Climate Fund & launched the Transitional
Committee design process.
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Meaningful results can come out of
Durban, primarily:
the Operationalization of the Green Climate
Fund;
and
A strong signal for the continuance of the KP.
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Role of stakeholders, e.g. Provincial
Governments
Inform the negotiations of needs and aspirations
of respective constituencies on the desired
outcomes, in the context of commitments
already enshrined in the Convention.
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Contribution of the UNDP/UN to this
process…
Provide platforms for dialogue & support
capacity development to ensure transparency &
integrity of the negotiations & decisionmaking
processes towards the desired outcomes.
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Thank you!
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