バンコク会合
FoEの発表資料・イベント
2009.10.02 Climate Justice Now! AWG-KP全体会議での発言
FoE インターナショナルの参加するNGOや気候変動の影響を受けるコミュニティのネットワークである“Climate Justice Now!”が国連気候変動バンコク会合第一週目の終わりに開催された京都議定書第9回特別作業部会の全体会議において、発言の機会を得ました。
先進国が法的拘束力のある温室効果ガス削減義務を持つ京都議定書を失わないように強く求めた発言に、会場中から拍手が沸き上がりました。以下は、発言の全文です。
Climate Justice Now!
Kyoto Protocol AWG 9 Intervention
2nd October
I am Janet Redman speaking as a member of Climate Justice Now! a network of organizations and movements from across the globe committed to the fight for genuine solutions, locally and globally, to the climate crisis.
From the interventions from several Annex I countries in the past days, it is clear that parties are deliberately trying to undermine even the limited achievements of the Kyoto Protocol.
What we are witnessing here is history repeating itself. We remind parties that in the original negotiations of the Kyoto Protocol countries endlessly accommodated the needs of particular parties, only to find that these same parties were, in the end, not willing to ratify.
We cannot allow this to happen again. The future of the climate negotiations, and indeed the future of people and the planet cannot be held hostage to the politics and interests of one particular state. We cannot allow the political ambition of the international climate regime to be sabotaged by a recalcitrant state.
The time is now to face the fact that dangerous climate change is a real and imminent threat. Rather than lowering the level of ambition, this meeting should be setting its sights on achieving emissions reductions demanded by science and by the facts on the ground. The next commitment phase of the Kyoto Protocol must achieve legally binding emission
reductions in Annex 1 countries with no offsets.
When Annex I countries agree to ambitious emission reductions in future commitment periods in the Kyoto Protocol this will unlock LCA discussions about non Annex I actions, which must be based on the availability of appropriate financing. The responsibility here lies squarely with Annex I countries that owe an historical climate debt.
Renegotiating the form and principles of Kyoto Protocol to allow for the the needs of one country, that has been reticent to come on board for 13 years, will lead us to an outcome that is far less that the bare minimum of what is required to ensure the lives and livelihoods of billions of people. This we cannot afford.
Climate Justice Now calls upon parties not to repeat the negotiating mistakes and compromises of the past - and face the future that hurtles towards us.
