"Informal" UN Climate Talks Begin; Don't Expect Translations Or Webcasts, Though - No Budget

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The United Nations has launched ‘informal’ negotiations on a climate change protocol in Bangkok, Thailand, today (30 August), prior to the annual UN Climate Conference, which will held in Doha, Qatar, in November. The negotiations, which will not be translated or broadcast via webcasts due to ‘financial constraints’, will run until Wednesday (5 September) and are expected to see representatives from over 190 countries begin the process of negotiating the terms of the 2020 Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (Durban Platform).

Durban Platform

United Nations governments are expected to sign the Durban Platform, an international legal agreement on climate change aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and keeping the average global temperature rise below two degrees Celsius (based on the Fourth Assessment Report of the Inter-governmental panel on climate change (IPCC)), by 2015.

In a letter to the government officials attending the negotiations, Co-Chairs Jayant Moreshver Mauskar and Harald Dovland of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform For Enhanced Action (ADP), said that they ‘invite Parties to share and explore their vision and aspirations for the ADP, the results of its work and how these results are to be achieved’.

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However, since being first introduced in December 2011 at the Durban Conference, the Durban Platform has proved contentious, as China, the largest CO2 emitter in the world, said it would not agree to the 2015 deadline, with the United States saying it would not commit to the agreement until China does, and suggesting that it was not committed to guaranteeing the agreed goal of limiting temperature rise to 2C. The platform’s 2C degree limit was also called into question recently, as Professor Sir Bob Watson, Defra’s outgoing chief scientist, told the BBC last week that although the UK should make efforts to cut its CO2 emissions, "the idea of a 2C target is largely out of the window".

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http://www.resource.uk.com/article/UK/United_Nations_begin_%E2%80%98informal%E2%80%99_negotiations-2151#.UEC4cqDkaSo

[GliderGuider]

1. Another one? Didn't we learn from the last ten? nt

[pscot]

2. It's a spirit ritual we perform to ward off evil

A dance performed to keep the darkness at bay.

[GliderGuider]

3. And it's working so far!

Right?

Right??????

[Nihil]

4. Now why does that make me suspect ...

... that some of the most anti-environment nations have put the boot in?

Maybe even they were getting embarrassed by having their pathetic stalling tactics exposed
to the world (including their own citizens) and having to face questions about why they are
so blatantly in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry?