Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA)
Fight over finance: where's the money? ask developing countries
By: Arnab Pratim
Date: Dec 3, 2012
Developed countries shy away from promising more money to developing nations from next year till 2020 for mitigation and adaptation measures
Climate finance will be on the top of the minds of negotiators as the UN conference on climate change at Doha enters the second week on December 3. In the first seven days of the conference, the developed countries shied away from promising more money from next year until 2020 to developing countries to undertake mitigation and adaptation measures. The US $30 billion fast-start funding which started in 2010 ends this year and the next batch of funding, which is still under deliberation, begins only in 2020.
Work plan under Durban Platform may prove contentious
By: Indrajit Bose
Date: Nov 28, 2012
Developing countries say the work plan can progress only if outstanding issues are resolved first
Talks are now in full swing at the climate meet at Doha in Qatar. The negotiations, which are happening under three different tracks—ad hoc working groups on Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP), Long-Term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) and Durban Platform—have all been launched. And the differences between the negotiating countries, or Parties as they are called in the climate circuit, are out in the open in all the three tracks.
Doha climate talks: rich nations push for dropping disputed matters
By: Arnab Pratim Dutta
Date: Nov 28, 2012
No progress on the Durban Platform to be allowed unless elements from long-term cooperative action incorporated in negotiating process, say developing nations
The developed countries want to junk elements close to the heart of the developing world and bury them in Doha. At the opening plenary of the LCA (Long-Term Cooperative Action) on the second day of Doha climate talks, the rich nations suggested that all elements on which there is no agreement be left out of the new negotiating process emanating from the Durban Platform. These include elements like transfer of patented technology, means of finance, global peaking, unilateral measures and the cornerstones of climate negotiations like equity and common but differentiated responsibility (CBDR).
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