The poorest countries hardest hit by climate change, from rising sea degrees to excessive flooding, have stepped up the emergency, blaming wealthier polluters for stagnating and saying they can’t wait a year for the creation of a fund to pay for the damages. Some have said they are willing to kill a final deal if it doesn’t come with funds, while some richer nations threaten to block some of the monetary proposals from poorer countries.
Egypt’s leadership at the summit, called COP27, was also criticized after it presented a 20-page draft on Thursday morning for a comprehensive canopy document that delegates said was too long, confusing and confusing.
“It is evident that at this backward level of the COP27 process, there are still a number of problems on which progress is still lacking,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, chairman of the summit, said last Thursday, directory 4 of the conference’s biggest problems.
Seconds later, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a “rupture of acceptance between north and south, and between evolved and emerging economies. “
“The world is watching and has a message: stand up and comply,” he told leaders after returning to Egypt after a convention of world leaders in Bali.
Guterres suggested countries “establish the kind of meaningful climate action that other people and the planet desperately need,” adding that “there is no time to point fingers. “
The negotiating scenario was so fragile that Shoukry held senior officials in multi-hour sessions Thursday afternoon and evening to check that things were moving.
So far, it hasn’t worked.
During a break in those sessions, Norway’s chief negotiator, Henrik Hallgrim Eriksen, summed up the scenario as follows: “We have a lot of paintings to do. He’s not fit. Many paints will be needed to make everything in good condition. It is very long and not well structured.
Speaking to The Associated Press, Seve Paeniu, Tuvalu’s finance minister, expressed fear about the length of the project, which he said had been submitted through the Egyptian presidency with less than 48 hours on the clock.
Negotiators were also surprised by concepts for the Egyptian allocation that were never discussed in the two-week talks.
Among them, a call for developed countries to achieve “net negative carbon emissions until 2030”, a much more complicated purpose than the one that any major country has committed so far and that would be very difficult to achieve. The EU and the US, for example, have said they aim to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, China by 2060.
The head of the European Parliament at the UN climate convention described the issue as “a kind of wish list” with “all issues” added.
Bas Eirkhout said it was “too broad, too many topics, too indistinct language and too many elements, which I don’t think are included in a canopy decision. “
The convention is scheduled to end on Friday, but beyond the rallies they have dragged on to reach an agreement.
Veteran negotiations analyst Alden Meyer of E3G said that, unlike in recent years, the convention president was late in setting up ad hoc groups of ministers to find answers to the main problems, unless it’s loss and damage, and that puts it all in.
Senior Western officials, European Union meteorological leader Frans Timmermans, met with Shoukry and warned that “there are still many gaps” in the project.
Timmermans said there was a “misunderstanding” about the Egyptian text.
“It wasn’t a proposal,” Timmermans told reporters. It was just a kind of compilation of everything they had received and they sent it to the parties. “
“The last thing that is needed is for this COP to end without consensus,” Timmermans, Canada’s climate minister, Steven Guilbeault, and Britain’s Alok Sharma, who chaired last year’s talks in Glasgow, told Egypt’s foreign minister, according to Sharma’s office.
There are at least a dozen cases in which nations “hold negotiations hostage” by taking difficult and likely rigid positions, Meyer said. The maximum is a payment fund for climate disasters, known as “loss and damage” in the language of negotiators.
“Waiting for the next COP or even COP29 is an option for us. We will leave without this background,” Marshall Islands weather envoy Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner told a news panel. “We’ve been very clear. We want the fund now and it has to be a fund. “
Pakistan’s weather minister echoed the call. Pakistan hit this summer with devastating floods that submerged a third of its territory.
“Time is running out” not only in this negotiating circular, but also in “all of humanity,” Sherry Rehman said. with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Thursday evening.
The United States resists any funds that suggest liability and reimbursement, let alone reparations, for decades of greenhouse gas emissions in industrialized countries.
European countries supported island nations’ calls for a “patchwork” of monetary arrangements on public and personal financing resources.
But there are big differences over who pays.
Baerbock said the cash comes not only from industrialized countries, but also from major emerging economies whose greenhouse fuel emissions have risen sharply in recent decades.
The big polluters in China and India, however, argue that they do not have to give a contribution because they are still officially considered as emerging countries.
Pakistan’s Rehman told reporters that the organization of countries he chairs, known as the G77 and China, needs “at least one political announcement of intent” about polluters offering new monetary aid to countries deficient by the effects of global warming.
He said he expected “a lot of funds” after the assembly in Sharm el-Sheikh, but added that “if this continues to be rejected, we will see it as a denial of justice. “
Molwyn Joseph, Minister of Health, Welfare and Environment of Antigua and Barbuda, said: “Nothing less than the creation of a loss fund and at this COP is treason.
The loss and damage factor is one of the 3 money aid boats discussed. Rich nations agreed beyond the meetings to spend $100 billion a year for poorer countries to scale up cleaner energy systems and adapt to avoid long-term disasters, even if they are slow to donate the funds.
Yamide Dagnet of the Open Society Foundation, who has long been involved in climate talks, said evolved countries appeared to be more open to “loss and damage. “
“But concern about payment and liability remains a sword of Damocles that will have to be defeated,” Dagnet, a former EU negotiator, said at the talks.
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