Transcript Climate Change Priorities

Czech Climate Change
Priorities
Aleš Kuták
Deputy Minister of the
Environment
Prague, 26th Jan 2009
Czech Presidency 2009
Motto: Europe without Barriers
Key issues – 3E:
• Economy - Competitiveness, the Four
Freedoms, and Liberal Trade Policy
• Energy and Climate Change
• EU – External Relations
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Copenhagen Agreement
• 4 crucial areas to achieving a deal in Copenhagen:
• Mitigation objectives for industrialized
countries;
• Securing financial flows – giving developing
countries confidence that they will receive
support in tackling climate change;
• Governance – a structure for governing the
UNFCCC which achieves a balance between
developed and developing countries;
• Mitigation actions by developing countries,
particularly major emerging economies.
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Global Economic Recovery Plan must be based
on synergies and win-win opportunities to
address the economic crisis, energy security
and climate change together – supporting
development towards a global low carbon
future.
Carbon market is a key element to address
GHG emissions and deliver important financial
resources – new developments for post 2012 is
crucial.
New Legal Architecture must be extended
to cover a new agreement, new rules, and
procedures for post 2012.
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Agreement at EU level on the financial
arrangements
• Poznan taught us a lesson about where our weak
points are;
• Commission Communication and Council
Conclusions need to deliver new proposals.
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Agreement at EU level on the financial
arrangements
• Key financial questions:
How to justify allocation of public finance to
projects to tackle the climate change in
developing countries?
What level of responsibility should EU take
when providing additional financing?
What are the right financial resources?
How to ensure that expended financial
resources will accomplish the objectives?
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Agreement at EU level on the financial
arrangements
• To negotiate a comprehensive agreement in
Copenhagen it will be necessary to build a
financial model which:
will provide financing for mitigation actions in
developing countries;
will provide financing for adaptation to climate
change in the most developing and vulnerable
countries.
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• Financial flows estimates (highly variable)
UNFCCC Secretariat 2007: Mitigation
• $ 200 billion per annum by 2030
• roughly equal split: developed : developing
UNFCCC Secretariat 2007: Adaptation
• $ 20 - 100 billion per annum by 2030
• Heavier burden on developing countries
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• Negotiations with key global partners
 China, Brazil, India, USA, Russia, South Africa
• EU Ministerial Troika Outreach Activities
 5 - 7. 2. India (New Delhi Sustainable development
Summit);
 18 – 19. 2. EU – Africa Ministers, EU - South Africa,
 Russia, Australia, Indonesia (UNEP 25th session,
Nairobi);
 11 – 13. 3. EU – China, Japan;
 17 – 19. 4. G8 Ministers of Environment;
 18 – 22. 5. EU – Brazil, Argentina, Chile;
 March – April EU – USA, Canada, Mexico.
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