The recap' of the COP21, day 9 by Hôtel★★★ Restaurant gourmand Coco Lodge Majunga.
The recap' of the COP21, day 9 by Hôtel★★★ Restaurant gourmand Coco Lodge Majunga.
The great speech completed, the Ministers of 195 countries were double bites, Tuesday 8 December, to find the necessary compromises to a global agreement on climate here Friday.
To the program, also, This ninth day of the COP : women and climate, multinationals which are committed on the emissions reduction and a deferral of tax on financial transactions.
Laurent Fabius puts pressure
The president of the COP21, Laurent Fabius, has announced, Tuesday evening, What a new intermediate draft agreement would have occurred today Wednesday 09 December to 13 hours. The idea is to have a "clean version" of the maximum of options and hooks, i.e. of formulations that remains to be determined, has specified the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
"The objective is to present a final text within delays compatible with the formal adoption by COP Friday. 11 December to 18 hours. »
In the hive of the parc des expositions du Bourget, delegates shared between bilateral consultations, formal and informal groups and gatherings.
The most anticipated of the day press conference brought together the so-called emerging countries of the BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) in a room exceptionally fills. "Since the beginning of these negotiations., our four countries, in coordination with the G77 + China [the coalition of 134 countries which brings together developing countries], have a very constructive attitude, While remaining inflexible on the positions we take., has explained Xie Zhenhua, the special representative of China on climate change. The inflexibility of the BASIC could be measured on the mobilization of 100 billion dollars a year to 2020, promise to developing countries in 2009. In October, an OECD report estimated 62 billion North-South amounts collected in 2014. "I do not say that the figures put forward by the OECD are not good.. But we need transparency. We want an agreement that adopt clear rules, transparency, and that you can know what is the actual amount"that reach the funding for climate, has indicated the Minister of the environment of the Brazil, Izabella Teixeira.
The climate of the point of view of women
This 8 December, the COP21 made a small place women at le Bourget. In the official area, a 'Gender and solutions for climate justice' meeting was in the program, under the aegis of the Nations United, while another, "Women and sustainable energy., stood at the Pavilion of Morocco. His side, Minister of ecology, Ségolène Royal, has invited several contacts to come speak at the french Pavilion. "Gender equality is a prerequisite to the success of the fight against climate change.", She said.
Why addressing the issue of global warming from the point of view of women ? "Because these are they who take care of children., school, who can get the messages, admit that we surconsommons, surgaspillons., says Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland, who was appointed Special Envoy for climate in 2014 the Secretary general of the United Nations and who created his Foundation, Climate Justice. "After Paris '., "we are not going to stop acting because we know that otherwise we will sacrifiernos children and our grandchildren., She continues. "The COP21 will not not all solutions., has accused Osprey Orielle Lake, co-founder of Wecan (The women on the Earth and the climate action network). But women suffer disproportionately from climate change, then they must commit themselves now against deforestation, to stop extraction industries and find a myriad of responses on a daily basis to advance. »
The malus's agenda
Disappointment for NGOs, as the Nicolas Hulot Foundation, which hoped that the tax on financial transactions (TTF) would abound funds allocated to the countries of the South hit by climate change. Tuesday, in Brussels, Ministers of the financesdes ten European countries even receptive to this tax (Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and Slovakia) pushed to mid-2016 the possible adoption of a comprehensive agreement on its implementation.
En 2012, the European Commission had proposed a 'reinforced cooperation' on the TTF to 11 Member States (including the Estonia, who withdrew Tuesday from the process), a consensus to 27 seemingly impossible. François Hollande announced that part of the recettesserait affected "in the fight against inequalities., global warming and the major pandemics..
Multinationals undertake the reduction of their emissions
One hundred and fifteen multinationals committed themselves to reduce their gas emissions of greenhouse, with the aim of contain at 2 ° C global warming. Not to exceed this threshold, "you have to go faster and farther., has said Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, that opened the meeting of the leaders of enterprises in the context of Caring for Climate, an initiative of the UN gathering 450 companies engaged on climate, from 65 country. "It is necessary the participation of. 100 % enterprises '., has added M. Ban.
"These companies commit to establish targets to reduce their emissions of CO2 and render reports each year on these commitments.. Most companies are controlling their efforts to reduce emissions by an external audit firm, But anyway, These commitments are accessible to the public. Since 2007, 50 businesses have been excluded from the group because they did not their commitments. ", explains Lila Karbassi, responsible for environment and climate of the Global Compact of the United Nations. Caring for Climate says that since 2013 its signatories have reduced their carbon footprint 12 %, and emphasizes that these new objectives, If they are suffering, will generate 93,6 million tonnes annual reductions in CO2, more than emissions from the Peru.
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