LDCs and ADP 2.11: A Message to Officials of the Least Developed Countries Including African Negotiators in Bonn - Rawan For Media Artistic and Production
I would like to highlight some of the phrases used in the statement.
As
you could notice, LDCs acknowledged the great amount of effort as an
indication to the importance of COP21. However, they add that the
conference outcome is a primary concern to them, and that they look for
effective solutions that ensure survival to their people, countries and
economy.
Moreover,
as they stress on that it is time for other parties to arrive at a text
that will be acceptable to all parties, as a citizen of one of the LDCs
(i.e. Sudan) I say, this mindset should have already become history
considering the fact that developed countries started to set serious and
efficient plans for climate change, and basically investment in
renewable energy for fossil fuel divestment will require concessions
from LDCs because the developed countries have the upper hand.
Therefore, it is a losing game that must be reconsidered in order not to
be behind in terms of sustainable development and the catastrophic
consequences that will occur if no fresh normalization takes place
promptly between the two, and so that all obstacles including economic
ones be removed.
On
the other hand, I would like to reflect on that having multiple
countries representing a single structure such as LDCs should be handled
differently. If each of LDCs officials think of it in way of taking
advantage of the situation to respectively increase the developmental
ratio through various authentic investment collaborations in a
collective action and not just in papers, they will be able to keep
warming below 2 degree Celsius in their countries as the global goal and
increase disaster risk resistance.
Such
doings and transition to low-carbon resilient economy can be planned
for in a blink of an eye if they undertake the right approach. For
example, the five year cycle (as a short-term goal) is strongly
important specifically for continuous improvement, and adopting such an
approach shall accelerate plans and projects for LDCs since they have
the least resources to do so in the first place, and this way they can
facilitate showing the world what they do in regard to the climatic
change year by year in the annual reports and value statements, and they
will be able to clarify the long-term goals in parallel with the common
global goal.
What
I am getting to here is that applications has to be carried out with
planning at the same time taking into account the time lost to produce
weakly intangible INDCs.
The
world is at a point where no debate on whether climate change is true
or not because what the world is witnessing makes whoever denies this
fact falls into the category of non-reasonability, and I am positive
that LDCs of all other countries realize what is happening of impacts
especially in their regions.
The world is also on the path to witness an increase in the global
average temperature by more than 3 degrees Celsius, not to mention
sea-level rise, melting glaciers and extreme weather patterns.
Furthermore,
the ACT 2015 consortium revealed legal suggestions as one of the core
components of Paris agreement and explained clearly within margins of
equity the axes to drive climate action in the future. Those axes imply
phasing out completely from GHG emissions by the second half of century,
transforming energy production to become harmless to the environment,
and along with both of these to-be-done simultaneously processes there
have to be sufficient finance and capacity building. Not to forget that a
number of factors are established to maintain the march forward, which
are; Science-based assessment, Transparency and accountability, and
Mechanism for facilitating and promoting implementation.
What
must be focused on is finance as a major obstacle for roughly all LDCs,
and Sudan in particular falls deeply into this category and must appeal
for support while correcting a lot of wrong concepts about how to
exhibit a fake strong position. The matter of fact indicates that this
is an opportunity to get rid of all sanctions that keeps affecting the
country’s economic situation.
The
first strategic course to negotiate is the financing of the actions of
mitigation and adaptation in developing countries, including the
accuracy of the amount that developed countries should annually commit
to till 2020, and the accuracy of the financial mechanism.
The
second point, related to climate finance, is the reintegration of
carbon markets in the draft (removed in this latest version).
The
third urgent point to negotiate for Madagascar and Indian Ocean islands
is the development of the article concerning "loss and damage", so that
concrete and specific commitments be integrated. According to
scientific predictions, natural disasters in the Indian Ocean will
become more frequent and stronger in the next years.
A
final binding point for all, especially for the countries major
emitters of greenhouse gases, that Madagascar, the LDCs and Africa must
negotiate is the total de-carbonization of economies, meaning "zero
emission" instead of "zero net emissions” (Implies that emissions can
continue as long as they are balanced elsewhere or in the future via
negative emissions).
A message to Ghana’s negotiators, by Fariya Abubakari from Ghana
Ghana
has been selected among fifty (50) countries including China,
Australia, France, Togo and others worldwide to partake in the World
Convention (COP21 host) conference in France because of its ardent
commitment and contribution in the fight against climate change. As much
as some of us want the outcome to favor Africa, some African leaders do
not go to the negotiations prepared.
The
impact of climate change in Ghana is said to be on the rise these days
due to a lot of devastating challenges confronting Ghanaians on daily
basis, for example the change in weather patterns resulting into drought
in the north, failure of crops, torrential rainfall causing flood
coupled with the recent fire disasters, one of them which has claimed
over 150 lives in just one night last Wednesday June 3rd, disrupted
infrastructure services like water supply, telephone, electricity, roads
and railways, homes, schools, public buildings and markets. It required
more than $25 million for emergency response and caused more than $130
million worth of direct damage. Ghana and African negotiators must push
and negotiate diligently for the developed nations to foot the bill for
any of these extreme events.
Africa’s
variable climate is already contributing significantly to its
development problems and yet government support that would help the poor
households to adapt to climate change is limited.
In
this respect, a financial mechanism to provide funds to developing
countries has been established. Despite the existence of this mechanism,
limited financial resources have been made available to Africa. There
is therefore the need for Africa negotiators to aggressively push for a
review of this financial mechanism to pave the way for the provision of
financial assistance to African countries to address climate change
challenge.
*Ali
Mohamed Ahmed, Domoina Ratovozanany and Fariya Abubakari are the
climate trackers representing Africa in the 2015 Adopt a Negotiator team
of COP 21 in Paris.
By Exhibiting a reasonable stand for Sudan, 15 hours 41 minutes ago
In
the LDCs statement of ADP 2.10, the manuscript shows that they are
still claiming to be the victim regardless of the fact that new
technologies and scientific findings are not in hand.
the LDCs statement of ADP 2.10, the manuscript shows that they are
still claiming to be the victim regardless of the fact that new
technologies and scientific findings are not in hand.
I would like to highlight some of the phrases used in the statement.
As
you could notice, LDCs acknowledged the great amount of effort as an
indication to the importance of COP21. However, they add that the
conference outcome is a primary concern to them, and that they look for
effective solutions that ensure survival to their people, countries and
economy.
Moreover,
as they stress on that it is time for other parties to arrive at a text
that will be acceptable to all parties, as a citizen of one of the LDCs
(i.e. Sudan) I say, this mindset should have already become history
considering the fact that developed countries started to set serious and
efficient plans for climate change, and basically investment in
renewable energy for fossil fuel divestment will require concessions
from LDCs because the developed countries have the upper hand.
Therefore, it is a losing game that must be reconsidered in order not to
be behind in terms of sustainable development and the catastrophic
consequences that will occur if no fresh normalization takes place
promptly between the two, and so that all obstacles including economic
ones be removed.
On
the other hand, I would like to reflect on that having multiple
countries representing a single structure such as LDCs should be handled
differently. If each of LDCs officials think of it in way of taking
advantage of the situation to respectively increase the developmental
ratio through various authentic investment collaborations in a
collective action and not just in papers, they will be able to keep
warming below 2 degree Celsius in their countries as the global goal and
increase disaster risk resistance.
Such
doings and transition to low-carbon resilient economy can be planned
for in a blink of an eye if they undertake the right approach. For
example, the five year cycle (as a short-term goal) is strongly
important specifically for continuous improvement, and adopting such an
approach shall accelerate plans and projects for LDCs since they have
the least resources to do so in the first place, and this way they can
facilitate showing the world what they do in regard to the climatic
change year by year in the annual reports and value statements, and they
will be able to clarify the long-term goals in parallel with the common
global goal.
What
I am getting to here is that applications has to be carried out with
planning at the same time taking into account the time lost to produce
weakly intangible INDCs.
The
world is at a point where no debate on whether climate change is true
or not because what the world is witnessing makes whoever denies this
fact falls into the category of non-reasonability, and I am positive
that LDCs of all other countries realize what is happening of impacts
especially in their regions.
The world is also on the path to witness an increase in the global
average temperature by more than 3 degrees Celsius, not to mention
sea-level rise, melting glaciers and extreme weather patterns.
Furthermore,
the ACT 2015 consortium revealed legal suggestions as one of the core
components of Paris agreement and explained clearly within margins of
equity the axes to drive climate action in the future. Those axes imply
phasing out completely from GHG emissions by the second half of century,
transforming energy production to become harmless to the environment,
and along with both of these to-be-done simultaneously processes there
have to be sufficient finance and capacity building. Not to forget that a
number of factors are established to maintain the march forward, which
are; Science-based assessment, Transparency and accountability, and
Mechanism for facilitating and promoting implementation.
What
must be focused on is finance as a major obstacle for roughly all LDCs,
and Sudan in particular falls deeply into this category and must appeal
for support while correcting a lot of wrong concepts about how to
exhibit a fake strong position. The matter of fact indicates that this
is an opportunity to get rid of all sanctions that keeps affecting the
country’s economic situation.
That
is why whenever such an opportunity is available it should be seized on
account of the consequent positive effect on livelihood and the coming
food security challenge.
The Indian Ocean Islands’ priorities, by Domoina Ratovozanany from Madagascar
The
Great Island is both among the most vulnerable countries to climate
change, the least developed countries (LDCs) and the Africa region,
Malagasy negotiators must negotiate at least three strategic points
during the Bonn intercessional from 19 to 23 October.
is why whenever such an opportunity is available it should be seized on
account of the consequent positive effect on livelihood and the coming
food security challenge.
The Indian Ocean Islands’ priorities, by Domoina Ratovozanany from Madagascar
The
Great Island is both among the most vulnerable countries to climate
change, the least developed countries (LDCs) and the Africa region,
Malagasy negotiators must negotiate at least three strategic points
during the Bonn intercessional from 19 to 23 October.
The
first strategic course to negotiate is the financing of the actions of
mitigation and adaptation in developing countries, including the
accuracy of the amount that developed countries should annually commit
to till 2020, and the accuracy of the financial mechanism.
The availability of finances is indeed a sine qua none of the planned actions in most INDC submitted by developing countries.
The
second point, related to climate finance, is the reintegration of
carbon markets in the draft (removed in this latest version).
The
development of trade in carbon credits are among the key initiatives of
the Malagasy government to the fight against deforestation, as the
Great Island has an interest in the establishment of a strong foundation
for future carbon markets, including integrity and effectiveness.
development of trade in carbon credits are among the key initiatives of
the Malagasy government to the fight against deforestation, as the
Great Island has an interest in the establishment of a strong foundation
for future carbon markets, including integrity and effectiveness.
The
third urgent point to negotiate for Madagascar and Indian Ocean islands
is the development of the article concerning "loss and damage", so that
concrete and specific commitments be integrated. According to
scientific predictions, natural disasters in the Indian Ocean will
become more frequent and stronger in the next years.
A
final binding point for all, especially for the countries major
emitters of greenhouse gases, that Madagascar, the LDCs and Africa must
negotiate is the total de-carbonization of economies, meaning "zero
emission" instead of "zero net emissions” (Implies that emissions can
continue as long as they are balanced elsewhere or in the future via
negative emissions).
A message to Ghana’s negotiators, by Fariya Abubakari from Ghana
Ghana
has been selected among fifty (50) countries including China,
Australia, France, Togo and others worldwide to partake in the World
Convention (COP21 host) conference in France because of its ardent
commitment and contribution in the fight against climate change. As much
as some of us want the outcome to favor Africa, some African leaders do
not go to the negotiations prepared.
Is time for Ghana and other African leaders to speak up arrived and if not Africa will lose from a weak agreement?
The
impact of climate change in Ghana is said to be on the rise these days
due to a lot of devastating challenges confronting Ghanaians on daily
basis, for example the change in weather patterns resulting into drought
in the north, failure of crops, torrential rainfall causing flood
coupled with the recent fire disasters, one of them which has claimed
over 150 lives in just one night last Wednesday June 3rd, disrupted
infrastructure services like water supply, telephone, electricity, roads
and railways, homes, schools, public buildings and markets. It required
more than $25 million for emergency response and caused more than $130
million worth of direct damage. Ghana and African negotiators must push
and negotiate diligently for the developed nations to foot the bill for
any of these extreme events.
Africa’s
variable climate is already contributing significantly to its
development problems and yet government support that would help the poor
households to adapt to climate change is limited.
The
Executive-Secretary of the United Nation Framework for Climate Change
Convention (UNFCCC) estimates that US $220 million per year will be
required by African countries to adapt to climate change by the year
2030. As developed countries is obligated to provide financial resources
to assist African countries to implement the UNFCCC.
Executive-Secretary of the United Nation Framework for Climate Change
Convention (UNFCCC) estimates that US $220 million per year will be
required by African countries to adapt to climate change by the year
2030. As developed countries is obligated to provide financial resources
to assist African countries to implement the UNFCCC.
In
this respect, a financial mechanism to provide funds to developing
countries has been established. Despite the existence of this mechanism,
limited financial resources have been made available to Africa. There
is therefore the need for Africa negotiators to aggressively push for a
review of this financial mechanism to pave the way for the provision of
financial assistance to African countries to address climate change
challenge.
*Ali
Mohamed Ahmed, Domoina Ratovozanany and Fariya Abubakari are the
climate trackers representing Africa in the 2015 Adopt a Negotiator team
of COP 21 in Paris.
By Exhibiting a reasonable stand for Sudan, 15 hours 41 minutes ago
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