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Developing Countries Left ‘Disappointed’ at Climate Talks

Staff Writer by Staff Writer
06/16/22
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Developing countries voiced “disappointment” as climate talks in Germany ended Thursday with frustrations flaring over a lack of momentum on helping vulnerable nations cope with the impacts of warming.

With world attention drawn towards other challenges, notably Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and spiraling food, energy and economic crises, the technical discussions meant to lay the groundwork for key United Nations negotiations later this year were mired in disagreements.

Representatives of nearly 200 countries arrived in the city of Bonn buoyed by the ambition displayed six months ago during the UN COP26 negotiations in Glasgow, where countries rallied around the urgent threat of climate change.

“After that sense of emergency had been established, probably the expectations were very high,” said Preety Bhandari, senior climate adviser at the World Resources Institute.

But the meeting produced little tangible progress, even on the emissions-cutting ambitions that countries have agreed are needed to meet the Paris agreement goal of limiting warming to preferably 1.5 degrees Celsius.   

Finance is an ongoing sore point, with a promise of $100 billion a year from 2020 to help developing countries adapt to a warming world still not met.

Another flashpoint at the talks has been the slow pace of work on “loss and damage”, the accelerating onslaught of impacts already being felt by vulnerable countries, like floods, heatwaves and storms.

Developing nations want a specific funding “facility” to help poor countries least responsible for climate change to cope with its impacts.

But that call has been rejected by wealthy nations, particularly the European Union and United States, who have said funding can be channeled through a network of existing humanitarian, development and climate organizations.

As the Bonn talks wrapped up, developing countries lined up to convey their displeasure at the slow progress on loss and damage, which is now being dealt with as a rolling “dialogue” that will end in 2024 with no clear outcome emerging.

They want the issue to be on the agenda at the COP27 meeting in Sharm el-Sheik in November.  

Pakistan’s representative, speaking on behalf of the G77 and China major developing countries, said the group was “dissatisfied”, while Zambia, speaking on behalf of Africa, said they were “concerned by the lack of progress”.

“We are disappointed by the lack of substantive progress,” said the representative of Antigua and Barbados speaking on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).  

He said countries were still waiting for assurances that “the finance we need now will be delivered at speed, or any time by 2025”.

‘Hypocritical’

Wealthy nations are concerned about any suggestion of legal liability that would put them on the hook for billions, if not trillions.

The European Union told delegates it had “engaged constructively” and promised to continue.

But campaigners say the current system puts the economic burden on the shoulders of the most vulnerable.

Harjeet Singh, Senior Climate Impacts Adviser, at Climate Action Network International said the EU “consistently blocked” discussions around finance for loss and damage and accused the bloc of having a “hypocritical stance”.

“If the EU wants to step up as a climate champion it needs to align with the most vulnerable in their fight for justice,” he said. 

Bhandari said work on cutting emissions could stall if countries do not give more weight to both adaptation and mitigation, adding that it would be up to political leaders to reignite the momentum in the run up to the UN meeting in Egypt.

Nearly 1.2 degrees Celsius of warming since the mid-nineteenth century has been enough to unleash a torrent of disasters across the planet. 

Alden Meyer, senior associate at E3G, said it has reached “boiling point” as impacts mount, adding that countries can also see the billions that the US and EU are mobilizing for the Ukraine conflict.  

“It’s not a matter of the money’s not there. It’s a matter of priorities,” he told AFP. 

“And if you’re saying climate is an existential crisis, and yet you’re treating other things as much more important in terms of where you’re putting your money, that doesn’t go unnoticed.”

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