Once again a climate conference goes into overtime. And is arguing once again about whether the rich and the poor countries of the same climate have to operate protection. And the Arab countries have brakes where you can.
Protest: students at the world climate summit
Jochen Flasbarth, state Secretary in the German Ministry for the environment, is a Veteran at climate change conferences. This Friday morning sees him, that he has re-negotiated for a whole night. Stronger climate targets, on the question of how all of this payment can be made, especially who should pay for it. Again, the progress is hard to measure. And once again, it is unclear at what time the climate conference, this time will be in Katowice in Poland to the end. It’s all a question of nerves.
Trouble with a climate scientist
But now Flasbarth has a concern. Because Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, a leading German climate scientist, has practiced meet harsh criticism of the annual Climate. Schellnhuber said in Katowice about the successes in climate protection: “The deficit is mind-boggling. There is hardly a state is not doing enough. We take this planet straight to the wall. The Format of the climate conferences to be running may be dead!” Flasbarth can start with this fatalism: “It is good that we have such scientists, but it is also good that the make no policy. Then fear and worry would make me real.” The Trouble about Schellnhuber is to be noted Flasbarth.
Climate-Veteran: Jochen Flasbarth from Germany’s environment Ministry
Only for experts manageable
In fact, people is only for experts manageable, what Kattowitz really and why do you think a climate conference goes on until Saturday in the extension, like so many climate meetings in the last few years. Environment Minister Svenja Schulze of the SPD is for the first Time and remains optimistic: “We are moving towards the goal. But it looks good. I do believe that we can do at the end.”
In the end, only unanimity counts
About 140 pages of the proposal for a final Declaration, prepared by the Polish presidency of the climate conference. Many points are still unclear and need to be further discussed, because at the end of the unanimity principle is one on climate change conferences of the United Nations. Each state must agree to, a single dissenting voice brings everything to a collapse.
The should take: so far, there is no agreement in Katowice
The old dichotomy: Rich against poor States
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The main sticking point: once Again, it goes to a climate change conference with the contrast between the industrial and developing countries, one of which is still China, though the world long ago, most greenhouse gases come from China. At the conference three years ago in Paris, all the States had decided, together, solemnly, its own national climate targets. Now, in Poland, to create a kind of instruction, how exactly that happens. To rich and poor countries meet the same conditions? Many industrialised countries want. Or developing countries still more time to formulate its climate goals? The fact China is pounding. And very important: All States should establish transparency of their climate policy. And since it does not want to let each state look at the cards.
Arab States as a brakeman
A very inglorious role played by the Arab States, as a German negotiator says frustrated: “The biggest Laggards and the Arab States were in this process and nothing has changed.” The environmental activists such as Martin Kaiser of Greenpeace see: “The governments of the Arab Region still fall far short of what there is in these countries, the potential for Renewable energy,” he says on Friday at the DW. Especially the countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar. Other countries, such as Egypt, play more constructive roles. So, Egypt’s Minister of the environment Yasmine Fouad has written in Katowice together with Flasbarth, the Chapter on future funding issues. But together with Russia and the US, Saudi have tried to Arabia and Kuwait, to play the latest, urgent warnings from climate scientists who had published this in October in a report.
Leadership position
The climate conference will welcome the report by a large majority, the four Oil-And coal-States want to take him just “note”. Quibble, the poisoned, the conversation atmosphere. For the Emperor the shows: There are hardly driving forces to climate conferences, which makes it the Arab States: “With the elimination of the United States, with the omission of the important intermediary role of Brazil and the agony of Europe in the issue of climate protection is not a country block is in the position currently to take on a leadership role. “Meanwhile, the delegates from 190 countries, has been set up in Katowice to a Marathon negotiation to Saturday.