Island States vs. Postponing Climate Accord
The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) denounced Friday attempts to force the most vulnerable nations to accept a weak political accord during the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change.
The stance of that group, comprised of 43 countries, was presented here by Dessima Williams, Grenada's permanent representative at the UN and current AOSIS president.
At a statement distributed here, the diplomat rejected some claims during the meeting on climate change in Barcelona on an alleged impossibility of achieving accords about that matter, after the expiry of the 2012 Kyoto protocol.
The AOSIS demands the immediate intervention of world leaders to come out of the deadlock in negotiations prior to Copenhagen, and achieve in the Danish capital a strong pact with a legally binding commitment, Williams noted.
The solution does not lie in weak political statements, and the leaders should travel to Copenhagen ready to sign a new and comprehensive treaty that obliges everybody, the ambassador stated.
The AOSIS requests placing below 1.5 degree Celsius the magnitude of temperature rise to be reached in the new accord to guarantee survival of those countries.
During the UN Summit held in September, that group termed insufficient the objective of industrialized nations of decreasing emissions of greenhouse effect gases for 2020 between 11 percent and 18 percent less than their level in 1990.
The stance of that group, comprised of 43 countries, was presented here by Dessima Williams, Grenada's permanent representative at the UN and current AOSIS president.
At a statement distributed here, the diplomat rejected some claims during the meeting on climate change in Barcelona on an alleged impossibility of achieving accords about that matter, after the expiry of the 2012 Kyoto protocol.
The AOSIS demands the immediate intervention of world leaders to come out of the deadlock in negotiations prior to Copenhagen, and achieve in the Danish capital a strong pact with a legally binding commitment, Williams noted.
The solution does not lie in weak political statements, and the leaders should travel to Copenhagen ready to sign a new and comprehensive treaty that obliges everybody, the ambassador stated.
The AOSIS requests placing below 1.5 degree Celsius the magnitude of temperature rise to be reached in the new accord to guarantee survival of those countries.
During the UN Summit held in September, that group termed insufficient the objective of industrialized nations of decreasing emissions of greenhouse effect gases for 2020 between 11 percent and 18 percent less than their level in 1990.
Source:
Prensa Latina
Date:
06/11/2009