#ClimateJustice groups denounce Lima Call for Climate Action as unacceptable, failing the people and the planet.
After two days of discussion and deliberation,The Lima Call for Climate Action has been adopted.
The document produced by the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action includes loss and damage, introduces new terms to address differentiation and adaptation, and suggests that INDCs (Intended Nationally Determined Contributions) be voluntary with no review process.
"With all that the high drama of an 11th hour text involves, developed and developing countries will no doubt wave through this weak and ineffectual text hoping to save face at this COP and convince themselves that they can improve things next year," says
Friends of the Earth EWNI's International Climate Campaigner Asad Rehman. "It would be far more honest if they simply rejected this text and reconvened an emergency meeting that matches the urgency of the crisis. The planet and the poorest people in the world require more than an empty political statements that contains lots of the right sounding words but very little in actual concrete commitments. That should be the only judge of if this is a successful outcome."
The two week COP20 was tasked with creating the framework for the 2015 Paris Agreement, a "protocol" intended to serve as a "legal instrument" applicable to all Parties.
Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), which are due by the end of March 2015, were the centerpiece of the contentious nature of the negotiations; with developing countries insisting INDCs include adequate adaptation financing and developed countries striving to lessen their commitment to carbon cuts and insure G77 (least developed and developing countries) contribute what they consider to be a 'fairshare' towards decreasing the carbon budget.
"The concrete demand was to set out how we would increase emission reductions from now until 2020, and set long term climate targets to make sure we limit temperature increase to below 1.5°C," says Lidy Nacpil of Jubilee South Asia Pacific.
"What has happened in Lima is that the world has said it wants to bury its head in the sand and not look at the weak and unjust 2020 climate targets again. Make no mistake, not revisiting our 2020 targets is to set us on track for 4C of warming and risk many more storms like that which hit our homes in the Philippines this week. Lima has failed the people of the world, Paris must not ignore the urgency of crisis or its agreement will not be worth the paper it is written on."
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