The negotiations were stalled Saturday at midday in Lima (Saturday night in Paris) after two weeks of discussions on the commitments to be current 2015 to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Back 96-hour marathon.
Tuesday, 20 hours
On the plane that took him to Peru, Laurent Fabius is careful to play the pre-sales of Lima that he sees as a “dress rehearsal” before THE summit in Paris in a year. Where 194 countries could finally commit to reducing their emissions from 2020 and try to keep the temperature increase to 2 ° C by 2100. “All that will be acquired in Lima should not be done After “, says the Minister of Foreign Affairs. That polishes his argument for the COP 21, “the biggest diplomatic meeting ever held in France” does not turn Copenhagen remake in 2009 and “the most hangover longest ever known “, a deputy smiled. In particular hope “national contributions reduction promises are issued before June “ Finally, ” on finances, it is necessary that the Green Fund ahead to reach 100 billion per year by 2020 … “ is cut it. ” … Why the Ministry he has campaigned for a financial tax on low cost financial transactions, which would yield € 4 billion when Brussels had advanced a figure nine times greater, which could help boost the South for the climate? “ A white. “We would have liked to be ambitious” , he admits. Especially as the minimum FTT has been postponed indefinitely. An angel passes between Bercy and the Quai d’Orsay?
Wednesday, 8:00
The aisles are sparse in the luxury conference center which cost a whopping 120 million dollars. An Indian diplomat depression, only around a triple coffee: “When negotiators have understood that there is a life outside of the business lobbies to sell us the miracles of renewable energy as the planetary wreck buoy perhaps we finally move forward. “ Ministers arrive to try to move forward, but the atmosphere tends more to cryonics ambitions. Jean Jouzel, vice president of the IPCC scientists, limping along. “At the rate it going, nothing will be done between now and 2020, and will be on the slope of a rise of 3 ° C by the end of the century, then it would fall by 15% GHG emissions by then, and divide by three 2050 “, he grumbles. Yet it is economically feasible. “We need to talk more about the disaster avoided if successful, the conflicts will not occur, the quality of our well-being. “ The dream of a more aggressive UN. And less hypocritical States. “But they only talk about renewable energy while they are paying that $ 40 billion per year in subsidies against 10 times more fossil fuels …”
Wednesday, 15 hours
A climate summit is: official stand, side events, national pavilions, happenings (sages) NGOs, lobbying all-round, closed between groups of countries. In the genre, the meeting organized by the EU entitled “How to finance a climate agreement” ?, summarizes the trend. A technocrat, a banker, a Swedish financial fund, a vice president of a firm (Alstom), discoursing so the importance of market mechanisms, investment in carbon-free energy for mitigation, ie mitigation of GHG emissions. When tired, Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam spoke: “What are asking the poorest populations, are mainly financing for adaptation to climate change! “ However, 7% of the funds go towards these projects, poor credit when ” 93% go to mitigation “, because they ” supply the private sector, technology, banks’ . The mitigation / adaptation debate divides more than ever. We find the new face of Oxfam a fterwards. “The tragedy is that policies do think that Elections: Democracy is confiscated by an elite cut off from reality, an elite that thinks more satisfy shareholders fossil industry or agribusiness . “
Wednesday, 23 hours
Ah, the lovely freshly shaven lawn of the residence of the Ambassador of France. MPs -including those revenues a ride on Machu Pichu-, techno, NGOs are invited by Laurent Fabius, a drink of Pisco, national drink. “In Paris, you must not miss the horse” euphemism there. It falls on Brice Lalonde. Ex-ex (Minister of the Environment, Climate Ambassador), it now may enroll in Global Compact, UN initiative pro business. Surprise, it has nothing of a fan of the COP, he has long skimmed off. “194 States never will resolve the climate problem. We need to invent a new model, new forms of action “. Large firms, he argues, “are now daring because they understood that they could do business if there are more sustainable planet. “ Man has always extolled the virtues of green capitalism. “Our culture is global, liberal and environmentalist,” he boasted already in 1993. Around 2 am, near a park whe re some delegates Peruvians find themselves, the atmosphere is heavy: “We lost 40% of our glaciers, we lose the sense of urgency, we need a revival, and fast! “, says one of them, annoyed.
Thursday, 13 hours
Morning steep. The final draft does not advance. A Brazilian negotiator: “We advance like slugs when we should be hares. “ A delegation leader of a Pacific island: ” How-Cop will it take to see tangible results? “ Featuring guest stars. Al Gore, co-Nobel prize in 2007, thus shaken like a preacher: “What do we answer our children when the world will be destroyed, populated billions of refugees, and that will tell us” But what were you thinking? ” “ the rostrum of the UN in September in New York, Francois Hollande paid in metaphysics: ” Are we able to control the weather? Are we able to control space? Are we able to control nature? Are we able to control ourselves? “ In Lima, Segolene Royal is not in the questioning. She dreams that France can “democratically prepare minds to change” as “did in the eighteenth century Enlightenment philosophers to bring about a new representation of the world. “ Large program. Too, for Yannick Jadot, EE-LV MEP: “The climate is a paradise of consensual political communication, with emphasis inversely proportional to action. “
Thursday, 15 hours
Change of scenery. It is the General Assembly of the People’s Summit, ten terminals of the “official” center. Here converged all movements, associations, “orga” campaigning for climate justice. Slogan “Stand the system, not the climate” . Action is spoken against “climate commodification” and “new convergences”; “Interconnection of struggles” and global citizen mobilisations, even after COP 21 in Paris, where may want to believe. “The climate crisis is the crisis of capitalism, the crisis of representative democracy, the crisis of our lifestyles” , assures the American Cindy Wiesner, Grassroots Global Justice. And here Lidy Nacpil. The outcome of the Philippine antidette movements, tells the burning gaze: “We will not win the battle if you do not build a strong movement. It must be in the official negotiations, create reports force s, the voice of the victims of climate change. You have to be everywhere. There is such a sense of urgency, anger. “ It weighs his words: ” With climate, governments can not create the illusion that it will improve. We know that this will worsen. The question is: how far, how long. “
Friday, 17 hours
In his own way, Abdoulaye Balde says as much. With his words, he was Minister of the Environment of Senegal, and did not want to burn out. He also spent the morning listening, speaking, to negotiate. But that’s it. He says that this high mass “not moving” , the “frequently” results in too windy. Says he received only $ 10 million of the adaptation fund despite all the promises. He also said: “We still advance. We want to spend 5% of renewable energy to 20% in 2017. We will plant as many trees as Senegalese 13 million: it misses 7. … “. White. “It’s still full of doubt existential. “ Decisions processes are so complicated that many delegates sometimes seem lost. It is an old hand in negotiations, which recognizes the “Too many acronyms, too many acronyms, too much bureaucracy, too much lost time, even if the stakes are enormous,” . Ministers h ave good recall the words of Ban Ki-moon ( “There is no Plan B because there is no planet B” ), they quickly forget to tell Following his sentence: “Our collective action is not living up to our responsibilities to all” . It is not the only one. The day stretches, and then, at night, when closed, negotiators are trying to save what still be.
Saturday, 1:30
As usual The Cop goes into extra time. And the only reason as far as the UN system. “For now, we have nothing on the most important issues” . Proactive and combative nature a European ambassador admits: “There is nothing, no progress. Everything is carried over to the Paris summit. It’s depressing because we could move forward. Preferred playing with fire “ added:. ” If we do not issue an agreement within a year, the process of the UN is dead, dead, finished. “ NGOs improvise a dance while we still negotiating behind closed doors. An English trader summarizes the case: “The problem is that there has been progress this year before the COP: the new IPCC report which ends the climate-sceptiscime, the first national contributions China and the United States, 10 billion paid into the Green Fund, the 400,000 people in the street in New York. So, in Lima, the divisions were reformed because nobody wants to play its hand before Paris. “ An hour later, in the middle of the night, another Guatemalan delegate, met in a hotel, said the opposite: ” It is precisely because there was a dynamic that does not understand why it gets stuck again … “
Saturday, 10:00
Meeting in plenary to discuss yet another final text of milling; The night was short. “There will be no Paris is no de Lima, it is close to a deal. Do not leave me alone, “ implore the Master of Peruvian ceremony. No luck: Text hardly delight that developed countries and some poorer countries, who want to move anyway. Will follow a series of grievances, “with a text that needs to operations as vital organs are threatened” (Tuvalu); “deeply disappointing, as not taking into account the poorest countries” (Malaysia), “a dead model” (China). “The best is the enemy of good, would have us believe the Head of Delegation of the United States. If Paris is a failure, it will carry a fatal blow to the climate conference. “ absence of consensus, a new text to be ” repaint “. Whatever the way, even a minimal agreement, everything will be done. In recor d time. “A new race against time when we are so late to reverse the global trend” , Epilogue, defeat mine, an old veteran of climate negotiations.
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