Call for ‘equity review’ to drive global cimate deal
Christian Aid is calling for countries negotiating a new global climate change agreement to ensure that fairness towards poor countries with the least responsibility for carbon emissions is central to future negotiations. It wants an ‘equity review’ to determine the emission capping actions each country should take.
At the UN negotiations in Bonn which ended on Friday many countries continued to present their usual inflexibility in formal sessions.
Behind the scenes, however, conversations on how to find fair ways to calculate climate action injected fresh air and confidence into the talks about a global deal in 2015 to come into effect in 2020.
Christian Aid’s Senior Climate Change Adviser Mohamed Adow said: ‘Countries now have to move to concrete discussions to capture the new energy created around equity in Bonn this week.
‘They can do this by agreeing to review climate action against an agreed framework based on the principles of equity. We are calling for an equity review in parallel with the scientific and political reviews.
‘Governments with contributions from equity experts and observer organisations need to quickly define a framework that expresses the UN’s principles on fairness.
‘The key point is that, when producing their pledges to reduce carbon emissions at a national level, countries should be fully aware that their promises will be evaluated not only against the science, but the Convention’s equity principles as well.’
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Notes to Editors:
1. Christian Aid works in some of the world's poorest communities in around 50 countries at any one time. We act where there is great need, regardless of religion, helping people to live a full life, free from poverty. We provide urgent, practical and effective assistance in tackling the root causes of poverty as well as its effects.
2. Christian Aid has a vision, an end to global poverty, and we believe that vision can become a reality. We believe that the underlying causes of poverty were made by, and can be ended by, human action. Our strategy for building the power of us all to end poverty is embodied in a new report ‘Partnership for Change’: http://www.christianaid.org.uk/Images/2012_strategy.pdf
3. Christian Aid is a member of the ACT Alliance, a global coalition of more than 130 churches and church-related organisations that work together in humanitarian assistance, advocacy and development. Further details at http://actalliance.org
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5. For more information about the work of Christian Aid visit http://www.christianaid.org.uk
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