According to the earlier plan was for the UN climate summit in Katowice in Poland, having terminated on Friday, but the negotiations dragged on for some time is no surprise. In the past, experts have said that the meeting may not be finalized until Sunday.
AP reports to country representatives in Katowice during the Saturday morning, prepared for a slutmöte. The meeting has been continuously postponed, and in the afternoon will data on to a decision may be near.
A new document shall be presented to the countries during the Saturday morning, reports the SVT News. It is a 144-page proposal on a slutavtal and the countries ‘ negotiators should have discussed its design in smaller groups.
According to the sources of The Guardian, will the final document to be approved at the slutmötet, but according to the newspaper pushed several key issues on the future.
Katowice is a rulebook to be drawn up, to guide countries in their continuing efforts to tackle climate change. For example, it is about how emissions should be measured and reported, and the aim is that the different countries should be comparable.
A more complex technical issues have put spanner in the wheels for the negotiators, among other things, discussions on how the financing of the countries ‘ work on climate change should look like.
Other important questions that are not a part of the rulebook, but which have significance for the negotiations is the perception of how the report from the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change IPCC of 1.5 degree warming should be handled. Sweden’s klimatminister Isabella Lövin (MP) has, together with Costa Rica’s minister of the environment received a mandate from the president to try to find solutions to the questions.
wanted a majority of the countries ”welcoming” the outcome document. While the united states, saudi Arabia, Russia and Kuwait instead wanted that the wording ”note” would be used if the IPCC report.
In the new outcome document presented by the united nations, the president is the word ”welcome” with, but instead have a significant wording has been deleted, reports the Aftonbladet newspaper.
– The paragraph that used to be with, talking about how the large emission reductions we need by 2030 to cope with the 1.5-gradersmålet, was not accepted. In general, there are strong statements that the welcome that the report has been submitted and that the IPCC is the foundation for the climate convention, ” says klimatminister Isabella Lövin, to Aftonbladet.
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