SEPTEMBER 18, 2019tags: China, india, parisBy Paul Homewood As...

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    SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
    tags: China, india, paris

    By Paul Homewood


    As the latest climate summit gets ready to start, China and India are first out of the traps with the ransom demands:

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    China and India demanded rich countries provide financial support for them to increase their climate plans, as leaders prepared to meet at a UN summit in New York.


    The summit has been personally convened by UN secretary general António Guterres as a moment for political leaders to show their willingness to increase their climate plans and deepen the decarbonisation of their economies.

    Guterres asked governments to come ready to announce the plans they will set next year.

    But in separate statements published on Tuesday, the world’s first and fourth largest emitters put the onus on rich countries to fulfil their commitments to mobilise $100 billion per year by 2020 for developing countries to cope with the impacts of climate change.

    As the largest developing country, China “also enjoys the right to receive funds”, it in a statement published by the ministry of ecology and environment.

    It said developed countries should “implement and strengthen” and “honour the commitment” to “support the developing world in addressing climate change”.

    In its statement, India’s ministry of finance said its plan was set on a “best effort” basis and that “finance holds a key for all its actions”.

    With uncertain finance and technology provision, “India can only aspire to implement the already promised climate actions”, the statement said. It added that India “may only be in a position to elaborate or clarify its post 2020 climate” plan at the summit.

    Instead, India said will be “better placed” to “suitably recalibrate [its climate plan] through re-examination and improvement,” in 2023, when the next global stocktake to ramp up ambition is due to take place.

    https://www.climatechangenews.com/2019/09/17/china-india-demand-cash-climate-action-eve-un-summit/

    Meanwhile the FT report that leading coal supporting nations will be blocked from speaking:

    Leading economies such as Japan and Australia will not be invited to speak at next week’s crunch UN climate change summit, as their continued support for coal clashes with the demands of the organisation’s secretary-general as he sounds the alarm on climate change.

    Coal has emerged as a key issue ahead of Monday’s meeting in New York, where 63 countries are expected to speak, according to a draft schedule seen by the Financial Times.

    In letters and conversations with heads of state, António Guterres, UN secretary-general, has demanded that countries attending the summit stop building new coal power stations, reduce fossil fuel subsidies, and commit to net zero emissions by 2050 — demands that have not gone down well in all quarters.

    Dozens of heads of state including the UK’s Boris Johnson and France’s Emmanuel Macron will deliver new climate pledges in a series of three-minute speeches, in what has been billed as a major show of global climate commitment.

    However the summit is notable for those that will not appear: a number of countries building new coal power stations such as Japan, South Korea and South Africa will not take the stage. Also excluded will be the US, which has said it intends to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, as well as Brazil and Saudi Arabia, which have criticised the climate pact.

    https://www.ft.com/content/1902158a-d994-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17


    No speaky, no money, I would suggest!!

    Not that bribing India will make much difference. India’s Business Standard report that India’s energy demand will double by 2040


 
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