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Monday 14th of December

According to the economic Times of India, Environment Minister Jairman Ramesh insists that an agreed test on global deal reaching beyond the present period of the Kyoto Protocol must be worked out during the night of Tuesday December 15. He also dismisses any suggestions of replacing the Kyoto Protocol with an alternative agreement:”India is not here to renegotiate agreement. The mandate enables existing two track approaches of the Kyoto Protocol and the long term co-operative Action to move ahead. The two tracks must be completed by 2010 at the latest”.The White House on Monday announced a new program drawing funds from international partners to spend 350 million US dollars over five years to supply developing nations with clean energy technology.

The program will contribute to distribution of solar power alternatives for homes, including sun powered lanterns, supply of cleaner equipment and appliances and a push to fund and set in place renewable energy systems in the world’s poorer nations. The US share of the program will amount to 85 million US dollars with the remainder coming from Australia, Britain, Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland.French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Indonesian counterpart Sensilo Bambang Yadhoyono, said in a joint statement that they are working hard toward an ambitious agreement in Copenhagen. They met on Monday in Paris. Frame is supporting a plan for fighting deforestation at the talks. The issue is important for Indonesia because it is home to 10% of the world’s forests. A proposal aimed at saving tropical forests and reducing emissions by doing the so suffered a setback this weekend when climate negotiators dropped plans for faster actions on the problem because of financing concerns.On Sunday, language calling for reducing deforestation 50% by 2020 was struck from the text being considered. And the document only financing without saying how much would go to the more than 40 developing nations in Latin America, Asia and Africa. The European wants to put in a shorter term goal.Norway and Mexico join forces and propose a model for climate funding at the negotiations in Copenhagen. The model establishes a Green Fund for financing of climate actions in developing countries. Contributions to the Green Fund should come both from public budget and from auctioning of emission allowances. According to the proposal, the scale of the Green Fund could start around 10 billion dollars per year by 2013 and increase to 30-40 billion dollars by 2020.The British climate change secretary says that climate negotiations are moving too slowly and urges environment ministers to leave only few issues behind to be resolved by world leaders.Najib Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia, join the UN summit on climate change in Copenhagen later this week, his agenda will go beyond placing demands on industrialized countries.Malaysians emit 7.2 tons of Carbon dioxide per capita (2006 figure) which is not so much less compared to an average person in the industrialized world. The Prime Minister also hopes that a solution on international funding that may help developing countries mitigate and adapt to climate change will be found in Copenhagen.Four countries hold the key to combating climate change successfully. If the US, Brazil, India and China coordinate their commitments, an agreement will be found at the ongoing UN led negotiations in Copenhagen.China, the US and India are three of the world’s largest emitters while Brazil has a large impact on the global climate through its management of the Amazon Forest.Russian accounts for roughly 6% emissions and has recently pledged to reduce its emissions by 25% over coming years. The cornerstone of the government’s plan is a huge rise in energy efficiency and more nuclear power.Secretary General Ban Ki Moon is warning that if negotiators at the climate change conference in Copenhagen leave the tough issues to global leaders to resolve the world risks having a weak deal or no deal.Poor countries ended a temporary boycott of the UN climate talks Monday after getting assurances that rich nations were not conspiring to reduce their commitments to cutting greenhouse gases.The developing countries want to extend the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which imposed penalties on rich nations if they did not comply with its strict emissions limits but made no such binding demands on developing nations.
 
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