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Dhaka demands new framework to benefit LDCs

Small islanders stage protest in climate meet

PINAKI ROY from Copenhagen
No coalition is ready to listen to another at the climate summit in Copenhagen and some of them even have disputes going on within.
Bangladesh yesterday demanded a new framework of adaptation financing where the LDCs will have direct access.
Meanwhile, small islanders staged demonstrations in front of the plenary session's room.
A clear division is appearing among the G-77 and China coalition as Columbia yesterday said BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) are not following the agreed point of the group. However, the giants of G-77 and China are vocal
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about the leaked "Danish text" not the Least Developed Countries' (LDCs) issues.
"The documents BASIC made is not better titan the Danish text," said a member of Bangladesh delegation.
The "Danish text" called Adoption of Copenhagen Agreement was leaked Monday night and was an open secret The Guardian of the UK broke the news yesterday afternoon.
The text says that the world leaders will sign a political agreement next week. This text bypassed the spirit of the Bali Action Plan as the Bali Action Plan gave mandate to a legally binding deal not a political one.
Meanwhile, Saber Hossain Chowdhury, chief of all-party parliamentary group on climate change, spoke at a session yesterday evening where hesaid-the-LDCsbad aTufter experience over accessing funds.
BASIC countries already prepared a text themselves and tried to impose it as the official text of G-77 and China while the developed countries made another text now known as the "Danish text", none of which was the result of negotiations.
Small islanders yesterday staged demonstrations in front ofthe plenary session's room at the climate summit in Copenhagen after the session was adjourned following a division in the G-77 and China coalition.
In the plenary session, TUvalu proposed amendment to the Kyoto Protocol rather than making a new deal under article 17 of the UNFCCC convention. This was strongly supported by Association of Small Island States (AOSIS) yesterday afternoon.
China and India protested this initiative and said the Kyoto Protocol only allows making a new deal not amendments. The Tuvalu claimed they have proposed according to the convention.
Connie Haggard, the chair of the session, adjourned the session as the house divided. The adjournment was strongly opposed by the small island nations and TUvalu.
Chanting slogans "listen to the islanders" and "stand with TUvalu", the small islanders and at least two organisations--tek tek and 350.org--staged the demonstration in front of plenary session room and other parts ofthe Bella Centre.
Bangladesh did not have a position on the issue.
Delegates present during the session said TUvalu presented the proposal and it was opposed by the giants of G-77 and China because if the Kyoto Protocol is maintained then these developing countries will have to cut emissions.
But there would be no legally binding deal if they make a political agreement and the developing countries would be able to escape mandatoryemission cuts.
TUvalu proposed making a working group to amend the Kyoto Protocol where there will be emission reduction targets for developed and developing countries. At the same time they proposed a financial mechanism since it would be hard to make a new legally binding deal witltin this short period of time.
Police chased away the protesters and the session resumed.
POLICE RAID CLIMATE ACTIVISTS' SLEEPING AREA Around 3:00am yesterday, about 200 police officers raided the Ragnhildgade centre in Northern Copenhagen where
activists were staying. Police surrounded the building where the activists were sleeping and proceeded to confiscate a number of tools and materials before leaving around 4:00am.
Tannie Nyboe of Climate Justice Action said, "It is completely inappropriate for the police to come in at three o'clock in the morning, surround the sleeping spaces, and intimidate the guests. It is really unacceptable for the police not to use the liaison process that we set up and very worrying that this is how Denmark is being portrayed to our international guests."
Lars K Kristiansen, who has been working to secure windows, building fire doors and insulating empty buildings in the run up to the summit, said, "The Danish authorities have been criticised for failing to provide ^noughr pkice fori people to sleep. We were trying to meet that need but now the police have confiscated the tools that we were using to construct those sleeping spaces."
Isabelle LaChoix, who was sleeping in the centre at the time said, "People from all over the world have come to Copenhagen to deal with climate change, just like the people staying at the Ragnhildgade centre. The 'Danish text' has already been a source of international embarrassment for the Danish government and now it risks more criticism by treating climate activists like criminals."
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