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Draft climate accord seems inadequate

Political agreement falls short of expected emission cut and assistance for adaptation; world leaders busy in last-minute talks before signing today

PlNAKl Roy from Copenhagen
In the last minutes of the UN climate change summit yesterday, heads of state were discussing draft texts of a political agreement they were to sign later in the day (early today in Bangladesh), which were actually inadequate for reducing emission as also for the affected countries' adaptation needs.
Heads of state including Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took part in several unofficial bilateral and multilateral meetings to finalise the drafts of the "Copenhagen Accord" Thursday afternoon and yesterday while the plenary session of the high-level segment was going on.
Dr Saleemul Haq, chief of the climate change cell of London-based International Institute of Environment
and Development, who is observing COP 15 very closely, said this draft is totally "inadequate" for Bangladesh.
A draft political agreement drawn up by a small group of countries including the UK, US and Australia was rejected on Thursday night.
The negotiators continued to work all night on the draft of the Copenhagen
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declaration, but by 5:00am the negotiators from Mexico, the G-77 and China said they were nowhere near agreement on the final document.
The signing ceremony was supposed to be held at 9:00nm Bangladesh time yesterday but it was delayed. The lack of a deal caused leaders to sit in informal talks, delaying the opening of the regular session.
Briefing the Bangladeshi press about the development of the talks, State Minister for Environment and Forest Hasan Mahmud said a text was finalised on Thursday night but parties did not agree on that.
At least 20 world leaders including Hasina and US President Barack Obama met at a breakfast meeting where Obama said if the nations cannot reach an agreement, most vulnerable countries like Bangladesh will suffer enormously.
Sheikh Hasina demanded including the migration issue of climate refugees" in the text. She also said Bangladesh and other least developed countries are ready to reduce carbon emission, although it is not mandatory for them, if they get technological and financial nclp from die developed nations.
"None differed with the prime minister's demand," Hasan Mahmud told Bangladeshi reporters.
Asked what Bangladesh’s position about the political agreement is. the minister said Bangladesh wants something positive but nothing was settled yet.
Influential leaders of the world including Obama, the Chinese prime minister, the Indian prime minister and the Brazilian president delivered speeches at a session conducted by Danish Prime Minister and COP President Anders Fogh Rasmussen at Bella Centre.
However, none of them announced anything concrete to save the world.
There must be financing that helps the developing nations, particularly the least developed and most vulnerable, adapt to climate change. Obama said in his speech.
Indian PM Manmohan Singh said it will be difficult to reach an agreement once the leaders go back home from Copenhagen because of a lack of political support.
He said. ' Equitable burden sharing should underlie any effective global climate under-standing, which means rights of emission,on a pex-capita basis.
Meanwhile, a paper of the UNFCCC documents was leaked yesterday, which says current emission reduction pledges by the developed nations and some emerging economies leave the world on track to global wanning by at best 3 degrees Celsius and probably more.
Different bodies including the WWF condemned this.
In his speech at the opening session, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chair RK Pachauri said if global warming cannot be limited within a 1.5 degrees Celsius increase, vulnerable countries like Bangladesh may be submerged partially displacing millions of people.