Over the past few months parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have submitted their opinion and wishlist and what they would like to see in GST. Experts have said that this year’s GST could be so critical that it may be the draft text of the cover decisions for the Dubai climate talks. But the GST submissions show that top emitters have very divergent views on what they wish the stocktake to address. This may open up new fronts of debate at the COP28 climate talks.
The issues remain the same: equity and responsibility; adherence to the Paris goals of 1.5 degrees C and 2 degrees C; the treatment of fossil fuels; and climate finance (including the loss and damage fund). Here’s what the submissions of the US, China, the EU, and India said in their submissions on these issues -- which reflects their expectation from GST.
Equity and responsibility
Expectedly, the US and EU submissions skirt this issue.
EU emphasizes that all Parties need to contribute to climate action, in particular those Parties currently emitting a high share of global GHG emissions at country level or per capita, highlighting that equity should be an enabler of the highest possible ambition for all Parties, in line with the Paris Agreement. US says equity is already reflected throughout the articles of the Paris Agreement and is germane to the entire GST.
China’s submission emphasises the right to development and eradicating poverty for all parties, expressing serious concerns that most developed countries, with the most advanced economic and technological resources and capacities gained since industrial revolution, whose emissions already peaked decades ago, have committed to achieving net zero GHG emissions only by 2050 instead of much earlier.
This story is from the November 23, 2023 edition of Hindustan Times.
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