[ANFES] Lead negotiator reveals Africa’s four-point agenda to salvage COP18

Lead negotiator reveals Africa's four-point agenda to salvage COP18

Doha, Qatar, 30 November 2012 (ECA) - The African Group at the UN
Climate Conference has said it is galvanizing support to bring the
talks "back on track" and salvage what some delegates fear could be
the least productive of the Conferences of the Parties since
Copenhagen 2009.

The spokesperson of the African Group of Negotiators (AGN), Mr. Seyni
Nafo, says Doha 2012 could actually achieve tangible results if
delegates paid due attention to issues that have the potential to
strengthen multilateralism in climate talks, according to Information
and Communication Service of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
at the meeting.

In a press release made available to ECA, Seyni Nafo cites the problem
of a Second Commitment Period to the Kyoto Protocol; the urgent need
to finalise outcomes on all the issues from the Bali mandate;
securing necessary climate finance; and a conscientious effort to work
on the 2015 agreement as real deal-breakers, without which Doha 2012
might not go down well in Africa

"Developed country Parties to the Kyoto Protocol must honour their
commitments through ambitious mitigation obligations for a second and
subsequent commitment periods. They must reduce their emissions of
greenhouse gases by at least 40 per cent during the second commitment
period from 2013 to 2017 and by at least 95 per cent by 2050, compared
to 1990 levels, as an equitable and appropriate contribution." Nafo
maintains.
"We stress the urgency of agreeing on a second commitment period in
Doha and of elaborating measures to avoid a legal gap between
commitment periods", the release states.

Since the talks opened last week, African countries have maintained
pressure on Annex I parties (developed countries) to ensure the
environmental integrity of their emission reduction commitments, and
to guarantee an equitable and appropriate level of domestic emission
reductions.
More:

http://new.uneca.org/ArticleDetail/tabid/3018/ArticleId/2403/Lead-negotiator-reveals-Africa-s-four-point-agenda-to-salvage-COP18.aspx

Climate aid assurances fail to convince African nations

DOHA (AlertNet) - African negotiators and climate activists are
demanding that rich nations provide a concrete commitment at U.N.
talks in Doha to increase funding for developing states to adapt to a
warmer world and grow in a cleaner way, despite reassurances from
donors that aid is not about to dry up.

Rich governments say they have delivered on a 2009 pledge to provide
some $30 billion in "fast start" finance from 2010 through 2012. They
also have promised to mobilise $100 billion a year in public and
private finance by 2020. But as the first funding period draws to a
close, there has been no firm indication of what will happen in the
interim.
"In Africa, (the finance gap) will mean that the continent will not be
able to develop and implement enough adaptation activities to
alleviate the problem," said George Awudi of the Pan-African Climate
Justice Alliance. "Countries will be compelled to go for loans... and
this will be killing Africa double."

In coastal areas of his country, Ghana, rising seas are forcing people
from their homes, but the government lacks financial resources to help
them, he said. Without additional money, food insecurity, water
stress, damaging floods and tensions over dwindling natural resources
are likely to trigger social tensions and more displacement, he added.

But officials from Britain, Germany and the United States told an
event on the sidelines of the Nov. 26-Dec. 7 Doha conference on
Thursday that climate finance is not about to fall off a cliff.

http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/climate-aid-assurances-fail-to-convince-african-nations

UN-REDD Africa Lessons Learned-Nov 2012

http://www.unredd.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=8331&Itemid=53

Challenges and Prospects for REDD+ in Africa

http://www.worldagroforestry.org/downloads/publications/PDFS/B17421.PDF

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