(Newswire.net — December 4, 2015) — Le Bourget, France- The current situation on the climate change conference in Paris is as follows: all the diplomats are giving their best to try to agree on how to slow global warming in all possible ways. There are many hot issues that are waiting to be dealt with, many of them might be left to be resolved later in order to get a quick deal.
This morning, a new version of climate change text is on the tables, quite shorter than the yesterday’s one. The tomorrow’s version is one step closer to a final one, which is going to be presented on Saturday. Secretary of State John Kerry and all other foreign ministers are to arrive by weekend and it seems that with the new document they will mark the beginning of the high-level talks.
The main fight, as it appears, is going to be between the rich and the por, as usual. India, on one side, along with other poor countries will try to make the US and other developed countries to pay a lot more money on clean technology and to give all necessary legal promises they are going to do so. On the other side, The US demand strict oversight of emmission reductions in other countries. Each of the parties are tough negotiators and the way these talks finish will be the way the world will address climate change onward.
What still hangs over the talks are last month’s events in Paris, with France having invested a great deal of both effort and capital for the climate deal to be reached. Baring this in mind, Jennifer Morgan, an expert in international climate change negotiations for the World Resources Institute said:” I think any country that would go up against France right now would be looked at so badly in the broader political context”. This surely means that there should be more space for compromise rahter than opposition and that efforts of France should be rewarded in the most effective way.
If the deal is to be reached in a fast and smooth way, it might happen that many of the trickiest issues are taken out of the text. One of these is surely a matter of deforestation, which would require Brazil, Colombia and Indonesia to be paid a great deal of money in order to stop their cutting the trees any more. If this and alike kind of processes are left to be resolved later, it could in a way weaken the deal. Observers comment that these processes are complex, but also very important and if the text says these matters will be dealt with later, they could end up eliminated instead of resolved.
Alden Meyer, the Head of the Union of Concerned Scientists said:” In the eagerness to get a deal that everyone can agree on, there is also a fear that we’re heading towards the lowest common denominator”. The weekend ahead looks promising.