Pressure mounts at UN Climate Change Summit
After two weeks of UN talks in Lima, the conference is coming to a slow conclusion, however the pressure is mounting for the UN Ministers
In order to come to an immediate conclusion at the UN climate change summit, Ministers have collaborated four key issues to strike a successful deal in Paris next year.
According to EU climate commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete, “Progress is much slower than we want and need”.
Therefore the UN Ministers administered four essential strategies which include discussions focusing on Differentiation which determines a country’s domestic commitments, Finance, Assessment and Upfront Information.
In terms of finance, there was a celebration on Australia’s pledge to encourage the Green Climate Fund to reach its US$10 bn target.
However, others feel that Australia can do better. As expressed by, Bangladesh’s Ambassador, Abdul Momen, $10bn is a figure that could be easily spent by next year.
Brandon Wu from Action Aid has also expressed that Australia’s sum is too small to make a drastic impact on supporting vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change.
According to Bangladesh’s environment minister Anwar Hossain Manju “We are probably expecting too much from the industrialised and developed countries, because today all countries are suffering from social, political, economic problems”.
He realistically expresses that the approach depends on how much countries can afford as “No country can do everything.”
Anwar Hossain Manju also pointed out that war and unemployment has devastated their financial resources. However, the government of Bangladesh has invested $10bn over the last three decades to prepare emerging countries to the impacts of climate change.
Although the initial text has multiplied from 12 pages to 52 pages, the parties are in the process of composing texts to put their ambitions forward before the final UN deal is signed in Paris next year.
