After nearly one-week`s bargaining, the basic framework of Copenhagen Summit finally showes its inkling.Some Details to Keep Your Bandy Hockey bat
In the morning yestoday, our reporter acquired the exclusivce proposal documents of Kyoto Protocol's Updated Version (at 9:30 in December 11) and UN Climate Convention's Preliminary Frame. The two documents are going to be submitted by secretariat of United Nations climatic change frame convention for discussion, reflecting the result of a week-long negotiation.Hey Matron! How Can You Resist the Glamour of Capturing Hurlling Hockey bat
From the two draft text, the two-track system which is insisted by developing countries has been confirmed, the Kyoto Protocol, Annex I countries` emission reduction obligations in the second commitment period, will be confirmed by the form of Upgraded Kyoto Protocol. While the participation of such non-Kyoto Protocol treaty parties as USA will be stipulated under the frame of Framework Convention on Climate Change. These two document covers two separate negotiations, reflecting the official discussion over the past two years. The Kyoto protocol negotiation is not part of America.Great! Sterling hockey sticks Came Into Season Last Week!
It was formulated in article one, clause three in the Upgraded Version of the Kyoto Protocol that emission reduction obligations in the second commitment period of Annex One countries is to `reduce 30 to 45 percent on the basis of 1900`, higher than the base line of 25 percent suggested by IPCC. However, the specific date of this promise stage has not been finally determined yet. Two alternative schemes are put forward in the drafts: one time period is 2013~2018, the other 2013~2020. In addition, the drafts still don`t make it clear on the concrete figure of fund support provided by developed countries. Moreover, the convention also fails to specify whether the modified convention is legally binding.Autumn Picture of Shinty Hockey bat
The Draft Discussion Convention is submitted by the long-term cooperative Ad Hoc Working Group under the Convention, and is very different from the previously appeared more than 200-page United Nations proposal. Specifically expressed in yesterday's negotiators-"on the AWG-LCA President of the draft proposal" version which appeared on the desktop and only is a short span of 7, the content had been significantly reduced, reflecting more and more consensus in the recent week-long negotiations.
However, the draft still hadn't explicitly stipulated the two differences in the focus of the legally binding and financial supports of the Convention. The foreword of the draft does not mention that the protocol legally binding, which is very important and worrying. AntonioHill, the international senior climate consultant of Oxfam, said: "The developping countries require one document of legal force. In the event that the document of legal force can not be reached, why did they waste the time for negotiation?". In the proposal manuscript of the Convention, the goal of long-term financial support, market trading mechanisms, measures to strengthen applicability, the correlation methods, etc, were all blank, indicating to be described.
Meanwhile, the UN climate summit on December 9 had plunged into scandal, because the British "Guardian" disclosed a draft resolution led by western countries on the 8th. The draft gives not only the advanced industrial countries a greater right to speak in the negotiations on future climate change, but also weakened the United Nation`s role on this issue to abandon the principle of the "Kyoto Protocol" emission reduction. This draft has aroused fierce dissatisfaction and resistance among the developing countries,because it obviously restrains the process of industrilization of the developing countries.
According to The Guardian,this draft resolution called "Danish Text" is actually a secret western treaty. because it was jointly drafted by several western developped industrial countries (like Britain, USA, and Demark, etc.). The draft resolution violated the spirit of "Developped coutries should firstly complete the emmission reduction mission and developping countries should try to complete the emission reduction mission" in Kyoto Protocol, namely, the principle of "The common but different goal". According to the per capita emission standards set in the draft, developed countries could emit greenhouse gas one time more than developing countries.