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The negotiations are difficult. The UN conference on the climate of Lima, extended by one day this Saturday, should result in a minimum agreement and let that which will be held in 2015 in Paris to settle the most crucial issues. Peru’s Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, said Saturday morning delegates that new compromise seeking to get out of the impasse negotiations would not be perfect but it would at least reflect the points agreement.
The conference in Lima is the last major event before the Paris appointment which should be concluded first universal and binding climate agreement to limit the rise in global temperature after 2020 (the Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in 1997, did not set quantified targets only for developed countries).
Last year, countries had pledged to make public their goals at least six months before the Cop-21, the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in December 2015 in the French capital.
In Lima, the debates of the Cop-20 pledged earlier this month on a positive momentum after the announcement by the United States, China and the European Union concrete reduction targets emissions of greenhouse gases.
“We are pushing the big issues in Paris,” said a delegate during a break between the discussions on ways to prevent flooding, heat waves, droughts and rising sea levels.
The new compromise draft expresses “serious concern” and considers insufficient the measures to limit the average increase of global temperature to two degrees Celsius.
Source Reuters
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