UNFCCC executive secretary Yvo de Boer told reporters in Bonn, Germany, at the UN climate change talks taking place here, it is imperative that in the process of negotiations, the level of ambition targets has to be increased.
The new UN treaty for fighting global warning is due to be agreed in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December.
“We need to see ambitious emission reduction targets on the table from industralized countries that will take us to the range we want to be,” de Boer said.
“What I would like to see come out of Copenhagen is a robust architecture to address climate change that is attractive to as many countries as possible so that we have a solid foundation to build on moving forward from there,” he said.
De Boer also said he was not sure if in Copenhagen they are going to get an agre ement on 80 percent global emission reduction, but was quick to point out that “ Copenhagen is not the end of the climate change process.”
“There is going to be work after Copenhagen and what is fundamentally important, critical and achievable is to have Copenhagen deliver clarity on the key political issues in this debate,” he said.
He said for the global deal to be successful, there was need for clarity on getting ambitious individual reduction emission targets for industralized countries; and clarity on what major developing countries can do to limit the growth of their emissions which, he said, is critical because without that clarity there will be no ratification by a number of industralized countries including the United States, de Boer warned.
He also emphasized need for absolute clarity on a robust mechanism for generating sufficient financial resources for both adaptation and mitigation, saying that without clarity on significant finance, there would not be engagement from developing countries that is needed to get the rich countries ratification.
“We need clarity on the governance structure, the system that is going to manage the post Copenhagen mechanism, a system that gives developing countries the con f idence that they are going to be in control of the financial resources for their adaptation and mitigation strategies,” he said.
The two-week long climate change meeting in Bonn, which ends Friday, is for the first time debating a draft text that will form the basis of the final agreement to be negotiated by December 2009, when nations gather in Copenhagen.
Bonn - 11/06/2009
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