There’s
been hardly any movement at the Bonn climate talks since the last post 12 hours
ago even as the meeting draws to a close.
If
anything, it is that the blame game has kicked-in in earnest with both the EU
and United States ploughing into China, accusing the Asian country in
particular of ‘hardening’ its stance on how not to launch talks under the Ad
Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform (AWG-ADP).
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| US delegation in Bonn |
But it
is not only China that maintains that the issue of pre-2020 mitigation be completed
under the two existing mandates (AWG-LCA and AWG-KP) which are already working
on the issue, a large number of developing countries from all regions of the
global south (which make up about four billion of the world’s population are
united in their call on Annex I countries to honour their legally binding
international obligations under the climate change convention and protocol.
Annex
I Parties’ mischaracterization of these developing countries as ‘blockers' is not
only misleading but is also hollow and scandalous.
**A plenary
is scheduled for later tonight in search of a breakthrough after a series of
meetings on Wednesday collapsed. Throughout today, May 24, Sandea De Wet,
interim Chair of the ADP from South Africa, has been in closed informal sessions
with some parties.
There’s even the possibility that parties could be forced to
a vote on the issue. If that happens, it will be the first since the UN climate
change process began two decades ago.
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