G-77: EU funding “insignificant” Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, negotiator for 130 developing countries in the Group of 77, writes off the European Union as “providing no finance whatsoever”. Marianne Bom 12/12/2009 10:45 Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping of Sudan – negotiator for the G-77 – is definitely not impressed by EU’s pledge to fund 7.2 billion euro over the next three years.
"I believe they are not only insignificant, they actually breed even more distrust on the intentions of European leaders on climate change," said Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping of Sudan on Friday, according to AFP.
"Our view is that European leaders are acting as if they were climate sceptics," he said. "Fundamentally, they are saying this problem does not exist and therefore they are providing no finance whatsoever."
The G-77 negotiator also criticized the EU proposal because it fails to address the issue of setting up long-term financing mechanisms. The EU estimates the need for funding to developing countries to be around 100 billion euro annually by 2020. The both public and private money from developed countries should be spent on adaptation to and mitigation of global warming in developing nations.
The Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei also worried about the long term funding:
"It will be relatively easy for developed countries to come up with a number for the short term for three years," he told AFP. "But what shall we do after three years?"
A negotiator for the world's most vulnerable nations says a leaked draft agreement shows that rich countries aren't being honest brokers at Copenhagen.
— By Kate Sheppard
Wed Dec. 9, 2009 9:02 AM PST
Will backroom deals among rich nations lead to death and devastation for poorer ones? That's the fear of negotiators from world's most impoverished countries—a bloc known as the Group of 77, or G77—especially after an early draft of proposed negotiating text was leaked to the media on Tuesday. It outlined a weak agreement that required fewer emissions cuts from wealthy nations. In the conference's first flashpoint, G77 negotiators stormed into a main hall in the middle of the busy conference center. "We will not die quietly," they chanted.
"We have been asked to sign a suicide pact," declared Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, the Sudanese chairman of the G77. The proposed levels of warming that the draft would allow mean "certain death for Africa," he said. The group also slammed the proposed levels of funding from rich nations to help developing countries adapt to climate change and curb their own emissions. "Ten billion dollars is not enough to buy us coffins," charged Di-Aping, according to reports from the scene.
The leaked draft is not necessarily the negotiating position for many developed nations. But it has raised suspicions that rich nations aren't being honest brokers. Mother Jones talked to Di-Aping on Tuesday night about the draft and what it means for those countries for which the talks at Copenhagen are already a matter of survival.
يرد على عدد من التساؤلات المهمه حول إدعاءات ضرورة تقديم الدول الناميه لتنازلات مثلهم مثل الدول المتطوره.
تحيه له مره اخرى، فحجته محدده وعلمية، وتقديمه لها يتسم بالوضوح والمباشرة. وللمتابع لتسلسل نقاشه فى هذا المؤتمر يجده ملم بالجانب القانونى والسياسى والاقتصادى لما يترتب على تأثير التغيرات المناخية على أفريقيا والجزر!
حقيقة السفير لوممبا مثل أفريقيا ومجموعة ال 77 بإمتياز لالبس فيه.
Poor countries push back at COP15. posted by Robert S. Eshelman on 12/14/2009 @ 4:14pm
Text SizeCOP15 negotiations were once again brought to a halt today when poor nations walked out of a morning plenary, accusing developed countries of ignoring their calls for greater emissions cuts and engaging in a secretive process that leaves no possibility for agreement.
Sudanese Diplomat and chief negotiator for the G77 nations Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, explaining the walk out, told the BBC's Radio 4: "It has become clear that the Danish presidency - in the most undemocratic fashion - is advancing the interests of the developed countries at the expense of the balance of obligations between developed and developing countries."
He continued: "The mistake they are doing now has reached levels that cannot be acceptable from a president who is supposed to be acting and shepherding the process on behalf of all parties."
The Bolivian delegation, in an afternoon press statement, said of the negotiations: "We are asking for a transparent democratic and inclusive process. It seems negotiators are living in the Matrix, while the real negotiation is taking place in the 'Green room,' in small stealth dinners with selective guests."
Talks eventually resumed late this afternoon, yet the walkout reveals the extent to which a final, agreed upon deal is in jeopardy. Not only do rich and poor countries disagree over issues of emissions cuts and finance, but the negotiation process itself is now being increasingly called into dispute.
Several international NGOs, which have been quick in recent days to issue statements on breakdowns in talks, were noticeably silent about the morning's stalled negotiations. Talks have reached such a delicate stage that few NGOs want to be seen as tipping the balance.
After several hours of delay, the U.S. delegation finally held its daily press conference late this evening. Todd Stern, Special Envoy for Climate Change and head of the U.S. negotiation, talked up Energy Secretary Steven Chu's announcement early today of increased U.S. commitments to financing clean energy production and, he said, important progress had been made during weekend negotiating sessions.
Yet, little of Stern's briefing spoke to the fundamental complaints of developing economies such as India and China or those of poor and low-lying countries.
Each day the divisions between negotiating blocs are deepening – over the substance of talk, but also over the tone of them.
At the moment, this is looking less like the push and pull of a typical, contentious negotiating process and more like a dead-end street. There are only four days left of negotiations – two before ######### of state arrive – and a breakthrough seems unlikely.
Post: #14 Title: Re: تحية للسفير السودانى لوممبا استانسلاوس لقيادة أفريقيا ومجموعة ال77 لمواجهة التغيرات المناخي Author: على محمد الخير Date: 12-22-2009, 02:38 PM Parent: #13
تحياتى اخى Khalid Kodi
حقيقة عطفا على ما انزلته عن السفير لوممبا وتاكيدا لفخرنا واعزازنا بهذا الرجل المتمكن ... كنت اتحدث مع احد اصدقائى هنا فى بروكسل قبل يومين عن السفير لوممبا والقوة التى تحدث بها فى مؤتمر المناخ حسب ما جاء فى احدى القنوات التلفزيونية البلجيكية وعن الدفاع القوي الذى تحدث به سعادة السفير وافحم به بل اللجم الاوربيين بتمثيلة القوى لمجموعة الـ 77 ... وكيف انه دافع عن افريقيا ودول امريكا اللاتينية دفاع المتمكن المقتدر... وكيف كان قويا فى تحميل الدول الغربية كل المفاسد الذى يتعرض لها المناخ فى الكرة الارضية... التحية لسعادة السفير وهو يقدم النموذج الافضل لسفرائنا الذين يجيدون اعمالهم ولا يعلم بهم احد... بينما غيرهم يملاؤن الدنيا ضجيجا من غير طحين ... التحية مجددا لسعادة السفير والتحية لكم اخى خالد على عكس هذا الفخر... وامل ان يعلو هذا البوست المنبر اخى بكرى فهو جدير بان يكون على راس الاخبار التى تخرجنا من عالم الاحباطات الى عالم البشريات ..
شكرا للمشاركه فى هذا البوست، وحقيقة مايواجه أفريقيا محزن، فالمهوسين من حكامها مشغولين بإرتكاب الجرائم المقززه تجاه شعوبهم ...وهاهى كارثه أكبر من الجميع ماثله أمامهم، و تتطلب ماهم ليس ذى مقدره على توفيره!
