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Bangkok climate talks set programme for Bali Action plan
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 04 - 04 - 2008


UN-sponsored climate change talks wound up Friday
with a work programme for the Bali Action Plan after a heated debate
between developing and developed countries on the schedule,
participants said, according to dpa.
The plenary sessions of the five-day meeting, originally scheduled
to start at 3 pm (0900 GMT), opened at 7:10 pm (1310 GMT) instead and
ended after 11:00 pm (1700 GMT).
The Bangkok talks, coming three months after a landmark agreement
was reached in Bali to set a road map for strengthening international
action on climate change, was tasked with setting the agenda for
talks to be concluded next year on concrete plans to halt increases
in global carbon emissions by 2015 and dramatically cut them by 2050.
Although the final agreement on the work schedule was delayed by a
hot debate over which issues should be prioritized at upcoming
workshops, delegates expressed satisfaction with the outcome and
opined that there had been no serious backsliding on the commitments
made in Bali.
"We have all the elements of the Bali Action Plan," said Andrej
Kranjc, head of the Slovenia delegation and the European Commission.
There were two tracks of talks at the Bangkok meeting. The ad hoc
working group on commitments to the Kyoto Protocol, which concluded
with an agreement to continue the carbon trading mechanisms after the
Kyoto Protocol ends in 2012, deemed crucial for continuing the
current system of inducing industrialized countries to cut their
emissions.
"There was a clear commitment in the ad hoc working group on the
Kyoto Protocol that the financial mechanisms should continue in the
future for the second commitment period, and now we have to figure
out the details," said Nicole Wilke, head of the German delegation.
Only developed countries have made commitments to cut carbon
emissions under the Kyoto Protocol.
The debate was more intense at the second ad hoc working group,
tasked with setting a work programme for the Bali Action Plan which
will result in an international agreement in 2009.
Developed and developing nations at the Bali Action Plan meeting
where split over which topics should be prioritized at upcoming
workshops on the main topics - sector mechanisms, mitigation,
adaptation, technology transfer and finance.
"I think you can always discuss what you want to raise first and
raise second, but in the end to me what's important is that issues
are discussed and I think the work programme allows for that," said
Wilke of the final document.
"I think it's important that we maintained the momentum we had
in Bali and all these elements together form part of a future regime,
but mitigation is at the heart of the process and all the other
elements are important because in the end we need them all," she
added.
Others felt that Japan's push for a sector approach to carbon
cuts had soured the mood at the conference.
"It was stupid of Japan," said Yurika Ayukawa, of World Wildlife
Fund (WWF) Japan. "They wanted China, India, Brazil and Mexico to
come on board and they came up with a proposal that scared them
away."
Japan's sector approach to cutting carbon emissions has been
criticized as a backdoor means of forcing developing countries to
commit to emissions cuts, something only industrialized countries
have committed to under the Kyoto Protocol.
The Bangkok meeting has paved the way for future discussion on
sector mechanism, but put off the workshop on the issue until next
year, delegates said.
The next major climate-change meeting is planned later this year
in Poznan, Poland, and then the finale in Copenhagen in 2009. There
will be several workshops between those two meetings.
The Bangkok talks drew about 1,200 delegates from 163 countries.


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