bonn climate talks - day 2 - back to the roots

8/12/2019 Bonn Climate Talks - Day 2 - Back to the Roots

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by Sbastien Duyck 7 minutes ago

Bonn Climate Talks - Day 2 - back to the roots.On the second day of the Bonn climate talks, negotiators went back to the basics of UN climate diplomacy:procedural complaints, personal interpretation of "common but differentiated responsibility" and dishonest

presentations...

Workshop on domestic preparation of national "contributions" to the 2015deal...

SOPHIE YEO@RTCC_SOPHIE 12 HOURS AGO

Negotiators filing in for workshop on how countries are preparing for theirnationally determined contributions. pic.twitter.com/Pm8lBwJT8Y

The format of the workshop enables selected countries to present their domestic experience during apresentation followed by a Q&A session. It is thus rather an informative than a political session. Usually...


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Sophie Yeo@rtcc_sophie

12 HOURS AGO

EU up first, outlining its 2030 package. "comes as part of long term planningtoget to 80-95% reduction by 2050" #ADP2014

The EU presented its ongoing internal process to define its 2030 target, process currently subject topressures to both increase or reduce the level of ambition of this package...

ClimateWarsaw@ClimateWarsaw

12 HOURS AGO

Interesting to listen to the EU presentation at #ADP2014 , while reportedly there's a veto brewing in Warsaw.

CAN EUROPE@CANEurope

11 HOURS AGO

Negotiators meeting to talk #climate at #ADP2014 . Next week #EU leaders meetto talk #EU2030 . Ask them to act: caneurope.org/act-now

China on the other hand dedicated much of its presentation to highlight what it expects others to include intheir national contributions...

climate-justice.info@ClimateJustInfo

12 HOURS AGO

China says that means dvpd countries should have commitments and dvpngcountry contributions are actions. Very Bali. Much 2007. #ADP2014


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12 HOURS AGO

China says focusing on only mitigation for contributions means the #unfccc would not be successful at addressing #climate change #ADP2014

ADOPT A NEGOTIATOR@ADOPTNEGOTIATOR 16 MINUTES AGO

packed room for presentations on national preparation of national contributions to2015 climate deal.pict @enbclimate pic.twitter.com/XxFiw6alee

But a few presentations did highlight the leadership of some developing countries working to embrace thetransition to low carbon development.

Mattias Sderberg@Mattias_S

10 HOURS AGO

Costa Rica present their work to reduce emissions. 92% #renewables should beinspiration for many developed countries! #ADP2014

After these few presentations, the following Q&A enabled countries to nail others rather undiplomatically fortheir lack of mitigation ambition...


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10 HOURS AGO

China says EU 2030 40% #climate target by the EU is "ten years too late"according to science and developing countries. #ADP2014 #UNFCCC

Sophie Yeo@rtcc_sophie

10 HOURS AGO

Saudi Arabia comes under criticism from EU for putting adaptation ahead of mitigation in its plans to tackle climate change. #ADP2014

... or to lecture others about what to proposals could undermine the final agreement (presumably speakingon personal expertise with such proposal).

JOS COZIJNSEN @TIMBALES @izwaan 9 HOURS AGO

#ADP Let's draft Agreement so that it's applicable to all; allow differences amongstnations; the South is not 1 lump pic.twitter.com/pJWupyyVl3


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Bridget K Burns@bridiekatie

9 HOURS AGO

#US "litmus test for bad climate policy is countries doing less than they arecapable of" did you really just say that? #UNFCCC #ADP2014

Into the politics of the future deal...

The workshop was followed by consultations on the same issue, during which countries (were expected to)attempt to bridge their differences related to the nature of these national contributions to the 2015 ParisAgreement.

Mattias Sderberg@Mattias_S

13 HOURS AGO

The format for #climate pledges may seem like technical issue. But in fact it is amatter of great importance! #ADP2014 #UNFCCC

[Earth]@earthinbrackets

7 HOURS AGO

#Norway on NDCs: "Our homework from #COP19 was to prepare our NDCs but we aren't on same page about what the assignment was." Fail #ADP2014

Nathan Thanki@n_thanki

7 HOURS AGO

#Switzerland : NDCs are a concept that was agreed in a huddle and nobody, even

those involved in huddle, understand #ADP2014

A particularly contentious point remain the need to understand how these individual contributions will sum-up to deliver the emissions cut required to prevent dangerous climate impacts.


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7 HOURS AGO

#Australia : want all parties to make specific NDC that works towards the 2degree goal... BUT #ADP2014


7 HOURS AGO

... #Australia wants each country to set their own contribution because THATSOBVIOUSLY HOW YOU MEET AN GLOBAL GOAL/LIMIT #ADP2014


@bridiekatie 7 HOURS AGO

#Bangladesh : what happens if the sum of all the NDCs doesn't keep us under 2degrees? What then? #ADP2014

Also, negotiators disagreed with regards to the scope of - and conditions associated to - thesecontributions...

Uthra Radhakrishnan@Rad_uthra

7 HOURS AGO

China: Need to rethink focus on 'contributions'; seems biased to mitigation. letsfocus on all elements here. #ADP2014


7 HOURS AGO

#Switzerland : NDCs must be made unconditionally (i.e. contra the principlesand provisions of the convention) #ADP2014


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These consultations were followed by a discussion on Means ofImplementation (aka. support for developing countries actions).

Means Of Implementations contains the following three themes:

IISDRS@IISDRS

6 HOURS AGO

Open-ended consultations on Item 3 address finance, technology and capacity building @ #UNFCCC #ADP2014 . #Paris2015


7 HOURS AGO

#China : all developing country core concern is MOI yet we have 1.5 hours only to discuss it #ADP2014

This subject unavoidably led to a discussion of historical responsibility.

[Earth]

@earthinbrackets

6 HOURS AGO

On historical responsibility: if a bath was 99% filled by me, and you add 2% tosurvive, overflowing it, whose fault is it? #ADP2014

... as well as to different understanding regarding the conditionality of developing countries actions.

Uthra Radhakrishnan@Rad_uthra

5 HOURS AGO

Ditas talking business: We'll do it if we receive technology AND finance. But NOenhanced implementation w/o this clarity! #ADP2014


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5 HOURS AGO

#India is willing to give quite a lot of clarity & detail for MRV of climate finance, wants finance 2 remain a Northern obligation #ADP2014

Developing countries express frustrations at the lack of progress on both financial and technologicaltransfers.


6 HOURS AGO

Philippines: The obligation in #UNFCCC RE technology is not to sell it to us, itis to TRANSFER it to us #ADP2014


5 HOURS AGO

#SouthAfrica wants to be informed of how the finance gap has been consideredin the NDCs #ADP2014

In the meantime, the Technical Expert Meeting on renewable energycontinued to highlight mitigation opportunities.

Selected countries provided information about their domestic policies to increase the deployment ofrenewable energies.


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SBASTIEN DUYCK@DUYCKS 8 HOURS AGO

#Brazil currently introducing its domestic #energy policy at #ADP2014. nextsession: finance & tech support... pic.twitter.com/gsq4DIf8NC

Pascoe Sabido@pascoesabido

7 HOURS AGO

#Chile doubled its #renewables target after it met it - shame the #EU can't takesuch measures. #ADP2014 #EU2030


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SBASTIEN DUYCK@DUYCKS 7 HOURS AGO

Germany sharing its #Energiewende experience at #ADP2014 meeting onrenewables. watch live: unfccc4.meta-fusion.com/kongresse/adp2pic.twitter.com/kIoDuLaT86


@duycks 7 HOURS AGO

coal, wind and solar the same price in Germany if build from scratch... shows

how #FITs can bring down #RE costs. #Energiewende #ADP2014


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UNFCCC @UN_CLIMATETALKS 7 HOURS AGO

At #ADP2014 in Bonn, German delegation shows the amount of greenhouse gasemissions already avoided by #renewables pic.twitter.com/XKvbOzxahD

Non-state actors presented their own perspectives: showcasing actions by local governments and detailingproposals to accelerate the deployment of renewables.


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UNFCCC @UN_CLIMATETALKS 5 HOURS AGO

Mentioned by @ICLEI at #ADP2014 - World's largest global database of local#climateaction : bit.ly/1i9skJz pic.twitter.com/io58lyVvG0

Bridget K Burns@bridiekatie

5 HOURS AGO

Need to talk about a global feed-in tariff, decentralized, locally owned#PeoplePower #ADP2014 #UNFCCC


@bridiekatie 5 HOURS AGO

Civil society proposes a system of globally-funded feed-in tariffs for#renewableenergy #ADP2014 in #UNFCCC workshop climate-justice.info/wp-content/upl

In the background of these substantial issues, procedural mattersalso remained a point of disagreement...


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ReutersPointCarbon@PointCarbonNews

14 HOURS AGO

#UNFCCC #climate talks open shakily, some question how #ADP2014 meeting being run (genuine worry or mere blocking?) uk.reuters.com/article/2014/0

ADOPT A NEGOTIATOR@ADOPTNEGOTIATOR 20 MINUTES AGO

today wasnt an easy day for #ADP2014 co-chairs, as procedural criticisms have re-emerged in Bonn. img via @ensclimate pic.twitter.com/MVC1ZZHMRk

The key procedural question relates to whether the co-chairs will continue to drive the process and organize"brainstorming" sessions or whether the negotiations will enter into a full negotiating mode with a (long) texton the table...

Yeb Sao@YebSano

@ClimateJustInfo 9 HOURS AGO

#ADP2014 @UN_ClimateTalks We must start negotiations on the text. No moredelays.


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12 HOURS AGO

At the #ADP2014 many developing countries called for a 'contact group'. Readall about it in the TWN update: twnside.org.sg/title2/climate

The expectation is now that a solution to this issue might be presented on Wednesday morning, short ofwhich procedural fireworks are likely to animate the current working sessions...

This second day certainly highlighted both the amount of divergence betweencountries as well as the bad faith of many delegations regarding their ownactions...

SBASTIEN DUYCK@DUYCKS AN HOUR AGO

summarizing day 2 of the #ADP2014 in one quote... pic.twitter.com/WyQ0Hs0BLq

bonn climate talks - day 2 - back to the roots

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