Kiribati President Anote Tong engages
in discussions with UN Special Convoy for climate change Mary Robinson (left)
and Dr Mahendra Kumar, PIDF Climate Change Advisor at the 3rd PIDF Leaders
Summit in Suva. Picture: JOVESA NAISUA
THE Pacific Islands
Development Forum (PIDF) will call on the world's biggest emitters of
greenhouse gases to compensate all Pacific Islands that are affected by climate
change.
At the PIDF meeting yesterday, the
forum agreed that compensation will be a key component in the Suva Declaration
which will be adopted today at the conclusion of the meeting.
PIDF Interim Secretary-General Amena
Yauvoli said "those who are responsible for emitting the most greenhouse
gases should pay" as their actions contradicted what they had agreed upon
in the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC).
"Our contribution of greenhouse
gases emissions is less than one per cent and while we are contributing less,
we are facing the full brunt of climate change. So we agreed to compensation in
terms of migration and compensation in terms of loss and damage as a result of
climate change."
When asked how compensation will be
paid out Mr Yauvoli said, "we need to define the methodology and the
criteria that need to be followed."
Given the need to address the
seriousness of climate change, the UNFCC has set up a Green Climate Fund worth
$US100billion ($F217b).
"Its purpose is to fund those
nations affected by climate change, the question now is how we can access those
funds," said Mr Yauvoli.
Meanwhile, in opening yesterday's
meeting Mary Robinson, the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy on
Climate Change, said there had been discussion with relation to compensation
"The French Government is
stewarding an informal process where ministers from across the world seek to
find ways to resolve key issues that are emerging from the negotiations. As
part of this process, there is an informal ministerial meeting next Sunday and
Monday in Paris to look specifically at climate finance, means of
implementation, adaptation and loss-and-damage which are all of vital
importance to people in the Pacific and other SIDS."
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What is President Obama willing to
give away to obtain a UN climate agreement in Paris?
He and Secretary Kerry are doing all
they can to create a foreign policy legacy during the months they have
left. They are desperate for “success,” even if that success spells
disaster.
Many think the Iran nuclear
agreement shows this administration will surrender any American interest in
order to get a deal.
If so, the draft UN climate
agreement is another one riddled with bad policy.
CFACT has reported many times that among the worst aspects of the proposed climate
agreement is the concept of “loss and damage.”
Developing nations are demanding the
U.S. and other prosperous nations shoulder the liability for any natural
disasters that happen to strike their countries as a condition to their signing
the UN agreement.
They are turning a blind eye to the
fact the Earth has not warmed this century, and that the slight warming
experienced during the 20th century was too small to meaningfully impact
today’s natural weather events.
China and India are increasing their
CO2 emissions as fast as their economies will allow, but they would get a pass.
Remarkably, the BBC reports Obama and Kerry may be getting ready to abandon the
long-standing American negotiating position opposed to this expensive wealth
redistribution scheme, and are preparing to cave.
Unless the public wakes up to what’s
going on behind closed doors at the UN and speaks out, America could get stuck
with a bill from the UN every time a hurricane, flood or drought strikes a poor
nation.
When disaster strikes, we should
lend a helping hand, and help other nations help themselves.
The fault, however, should not be seen
as ours … and neither should the bill.
http://www.cfact.org/2015/09/04/who-pays-when-weather-strikes/
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