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LDCs should specify climate demands

European commissioner for climate action tells The Daily Star

Porimol Palma
The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) should specify their demands in the global negotiations to achieve the most in the Mexico conference this November to tackle climate change, said European Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard.
"Everybody is discussing [legal]
forms, but none sees what is in there for me...where is the money, where are the projects and what is it in for me,” she told The Daily Star in an exclusive interview before leaving Dhaka on Monday.
"If you make it tangible, this is what it is about. We have agreed to this. This is about deforestation, adaptation to climate change and sharing technologies. Then you make it very specific and then it might be easier for people to agree on legal form," said Connie.
The former Danish minister for environment and energy came to Dhaka to attend a two-day Asian conference on Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA). Eight Asian LDCs attended the meeting that ended Monday.
GCCA was formed in 2007 with assistance of the European Union (EU) to enhance capacity building of the LDCs and to help so that they have common stance in realising their demands from industrialised countries, the highest contributors to climate change.
GCCA was formed with the LDCs and developing Island States in a context when the money was going to emerging economies for clean development mechanisms, but the LDCs were not getting global attention. The Asia conference of GCCA is a part of the process in the run up to the next Cancun climate conference in November.
Connie Hedegaard, who chaired the climate conference in Copenhagen, said things should be specific on deforestation, adaptation to climate change and cutting of carbon emissions, which will make it easierforalegal accord.
Asked about the experts' apprehension that the legal accord may not be signed in Cancun, she said, "We don't want to turn down the expecta-
tion from Cancun, but to try to secure that we will get an ambitious outcome and then secure momentum."
"Because, to be honest with you, if we achieve nothing in Cancun, I would really feel that the international process would risk being destroyed," she added.
Observing Bangladesh's plan to tackle the climate change, she said clean development and climate should be really integrated and that kind ofthingsareverystronghere.
On capacity building of the LDCs, she said large counties have adequate capacity for negotiations in the global forums while most LDCs lack people and even cannot join the negotiation meetings. Things then get imbalanced, she said, adding that it is very important that the LDCs have the capacity and human resources for nego -tiations.
"There is a huge responsibility of the negotiators," Connie said, indicating that in the climate forums things appear to be fine, but many a time concrete issues do not come up for lackofskills.
"But, I would really hope that they construct their negotiations equally," she said.
Asked why most of the industrialised countries are not delivering the $30 billion pledged in Copenhagen, she said Europe is delivering.
The industrialised countries pledged at the summit in front of over 100 states and so they must deliver, Hedegaard said, adding that America and Japan are preparing foradelivery.
"The European money will be unconditional. No political conditions will be there. But, governance things will be in place,” she noted.