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COP21 : More than 48 heures pour conclure l’accord de Paris by Hôtel★★★ Restaurant gourmand Coco Lodge Majunga.
More than 48 hours to conclude the agreement of Paris, which aims to stem global warming.

“It should prepare to work this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow, without pause”. So Laurent Fabius has launched yesterday, Wednesday 9 December, the last straight line of the COP21 to 15 hours.

Here is a new agreement text to the COP21 : a new "clean" version, According to Laurent Fabius, to which have been added the advances of co-facilitators Ministers. It was presented Wednesday to the 195 signatories to the UN Climate Convention (UNFCCC). The head of French diplomacy has welcomed this new draft agreement do «» 29 pages instead of 43 », and that "compared to the previous version., There is "a reduction of three quarters of the number of points in square brackets.. "It is significantly better.", Therefore, but it is still too., has concluded the president of the COP, leaving until Wednesday 20 hours to the delegates so that they become aware of the text.
Advances and 'political slicing points '.

Transparency, adaptation to the impacts of climate change, forests, means of cooperation, technology transfer and the preamble appear to have progressed, with more clear-cut proposals than before and less ambiguous paragraphs. "Of course, the rule between us, "it's that nothing is approved until everything is not accredited., has wanted to reassure Fabius. While acknowledging that "some political points important rest.[have]ent to decide. : differentiation (efforts by countries according to their ways and their responsibilities in climate change), the level of funding and their means of implementation, and the ambition of the agreement, that is its objective of long term. Either three fundamental articles of the Paris agreement.

Forty-eight hours from the adoption hoped this text, scheduled Friday, nothing is played. "The final ambition remains bracketed." : There are still too many very ambitious options, little ambitious or not at all ambitious, that remain on the table., says Matthieu Orphelin, spokesman of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation.

"The moment where all the paragraphs are linked., anything can unlock in the final straight., forward Pierre Radanne, great connoisseur of these negotiators and founder of the office of studies future factor 4. The NGOs in the climate action network (RAC) speak for the moment «of cut-price agreement». For their spokesperson, Celia Garcia, the text contains proposals "unjust.", Unable to put us on the path of 1.5 ° C or 2 ° C', limit of increase in global temperatures compared to the pre-industrial era referred to the agreement. The draft text does not clearly give the means to realize the ambition of the 1.5 ° C or 2 ° C : revision cycles to the ambitions of the countries rising, national contributions, are still very vague and non-binding.

Financing and long term objective
The question of the level of funding remains. According to the RAC, "the commitments that would guarantee funding climate., predictable and growing after 2020, are still in square brackets. And this despite their importance to oil the wheels of the ambition of the States and to protect the most vulnerable. »
The long term objective, him, hesitate between a very ambitious formula, in this new version of the text – between 70 and 95% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in 2050 relative levels of 2010 -, or vague formulas such as 'carbon neutrality '.. This last proposal "doesn't mean anything"., has insisted Jean-François Julliard, Greenpeace. "The text does not give a strong signal of the output of fossil energies and the energy transition".. We head toward a paper commitment., He continues.
"There are so many options that it is still difficult to have an opinion on the text, recognizes Céline Charvériat, Oxfam. The good news, is that the France try to weigh to keep a real level of ambition of the agreement. The bad, is that all this can collapse within hours of coming to a low-cost deal. It's a Russian roulette negotiation. »

Feltleaf discussions
Yet, Neither coup d ' éclat, nor rant of the most vulnerable countries, on the front line of climate change, and pushing for the agreement the most ambitious possible. Nothing more than this COP21, in extremely fluid appearance. The discussions are closed, bilateral and without observers. Plenary sessions are broadcast on screen, but diplomacy is development. Tuesday evening, all delegates, even those normally virulent (the Malaysia, Venezuela...), did not only congratulate the French Presidency for the good organization, "inclusiveness"., and the 'transparency' of these negotiations.

«There were more than a dozen of high-level meetings this year», recalls Ahmed Djoghlaf, Co-Chair of the platform which has prepared the text since Durban, en 2011. "Convergence zones exist.. But in these negotiations, There are haggling. The task is not insurmountable, and each country knows what he has to give, and what it has to take. »
"This must be 24 hours the most useful of these past six years, Since Copenhagen., has said Nicolas Hulot, special envoy of the Elysee on climate. "It would be a victory for the United Nations., and a victory of the French Presidency, to have an ambitious and binding agreement at the time, Friday night, in a timely manner., want to believe Ahmed Djoghlaf.

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