newsitems New UN SG Spokesman Nesirky to EuroFora: Ban Ki Moon to link Climate Change and Development in 2010
New UN SG Spokesman Nesirky to EuroFora: Ban Ki Moon to link Climate Change and Development in 2010
Speaking by Phone after Ban Ki Moon's brief Press Conference at Copenhagen, Nesirky said to "EuroFora" that "the SG will continue obviously to push the Climate Change Treaty negotiations that need to take place in order to have a Legally binding Treaty as soon as possible, but he also ...wishes ..to focus more clearly on Development. F.ex. on the Millenium Development Goals, and also on Africa, among other things"
- "These are some of the areas" on which "he will be also elaborating ...early in the New Year" 2010. He has given a taste just before he headed to Copenhagen's Press Conference", and I anticipate (that) he'll give more details early in January" 2010".
- Millenium Development Goals "of course" are linked" with Climate Change, as part of the parcel, and we know that some of the most vulnerable countries, or less developed countries face the worst consequencies of Climate Change. So, there is a clear link between the two, and he's very vocal on that". "Of course, there are also other topics" on Development issues, "such as Child Mortality, Aids", Education, "etc. that are also very important but not directly linked to Climate Change". But UNO's SG "sees the work that's still to be done on the Millenium Goals partly on that context".
Development concerns were obviously an important part of the causes which made it difficult to obtain a Legally binding deal at Copenhagen's UNO Summit on Climate Change, instead of a merely "Political agreement", of which, UNFCC simply "took note". (See earlier "EuroFora"'s Newsreports from the event).
However, "Copenhagen Accord may not be everything that everyone hoped for", "but this ...is a new beginning", as UNO's SG stressed at a brief Press point yesterday, after a sleepless night at Copenhagen, before leaving for New York.
- "All countries have agreed to work toward a common... goal to limit global temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius."Many governments have made important commitments to reduce or limit emissions", and "significant progress on preserving Forests. Countries have agreed to provide comprehensive support to the most vulnerable to cope". "30 billion dollars have been pledged for adaptation". Countries have backed the goal of mobilizing $100 billion dollars a year by 2020 for Developing countries. "The countries that had stayed on the periphery of the Kyoto process, are now at the heart of global Climate action"
- But, " we need to turn this agreement into a Legally Binding Treaty", and to"launch" a "Green Climate Fund", in order to "ensure that it can ...start to deliver immediate results to people in need and jump-start Clean Energy Growth in Developing Countries. Finally, "we must need to pursue the road of Higher Ambition", because "current commitments fail to meet the Scientific bottom line". "It will take more than this to .. tackle Climate change", "this is just a beginning", he conluded.
Ban Ki Moon explained that he "tried (his) best", without even time to sleep, to find a decision by "consensus".
But "more than 130 Leaders participated this time. This was Unprecedented in the History of the UN". And "many countries have different conditions and situations", while "hhis has been also a very difficult and complex negotiating process".
Thus, even if it was not yet possible at Copenhagen in 2009, UNO's Secretary General said, in reply to Press Questions, that he expects for the USA to determine soon the amount of a "fair share" in the necessary Funding of the Global Fight against Climate Change, particularly vis a vis poor, developing Countries, and promissed, despite the lack of an agreed Time Deadline, to do his best in order to transform the Political Agreement into "a Legally Binding Treaty in 2010".
The point has a strategic importance also for the Economy, because the Business community would massively invest on "Green Growth" Technologies if it had a binding agreement on time, helping to shape the after-Crisis era during the next few years.
(+ Addition - 21/12/09 : A first move confirming the new UN Spokesman's sayings to "EuroFora" was made one day later by Ban Ki Moon himself when, in statements at N.Y. on the Copenhagen's Summit, he anounced his intention to "consider how to [improve] the ..process", particularly by "look(ing) at how to encompass the full context of Climate change and Development in the negotiations".
For that purpose, "early next year", (2010), "I will establish a High-level Panel on Development and Climate change, to strategically address such issues", UNO's Secretary General anounced).
(NDLR ! For earlier Statements by UNO Secretary General's New Spokesman, former OSCE's Spokesman, Martin Nesirky to "EuroFora", see also : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/osceberlin.html ).
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*Paris/ACM/12 October 2008/-
When Europeans really feel a vital need to urgently launch common replies to challenging World Crisis, as the present Financial turmoil of Global Markets, they forge new decision-making tools and new dynamics :
The 1st in History EuroZone Heads of State and Government Summit, organized in Paris at the invitation of French President, and current EU chair, Nicolas Sarkozy, with the participation of 15 national leaders and EU institutions' chairmen, partly enlarged to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, after a highly symbolic duo with German Chancelor Angie Merkel, at General De Gaulle's birth-village, 50 Years after he welcomed there former German chancellor Adenauer (1958-2008), may have not one, but two results :
- The first, and more urgent, was to launch an "ambitious", "coherent", and "efficient" common European movement, able to stimulate "solutions" to the World Economic Crisis, as Sarkozy anounced from the outset : State Garantees (to new Bank debts up to 5 years), fresh Capital input (f.ex. by buying shares), support to distressed banks, (while also restructuring them), incite the European Central Bank to facilitate commerial bills europe-wide, etc.
"Acting swiftly", from tomorrow, national measures will quantify all these targets, with coordinated actions from all EuroZone's Governments : France, Germany, Italy and others, decided to anounce, at the same time, such concrete measures, according to agreements that we have already made all together, revealed Sarkozy at the final Press Conference, flanked by EuroZone's chairmen : EuroGroup's Jean-Claude Juncker, and Central European Bank's Jean-Claude Truchet, as well as EU Commission's Jose Baroso, to solemnly stress the will to find common European solutions.
- "United and Determined, all EuroZone's Countries will act to prove that Citizens can Trust" the Economy, Sarkozy concluded. If we attract also all EU's 27 countries, Wednesday in Brussels, then we can coordinate action with our American Friends at a Global level, he anounced.
- "With this new Toolbox, we do not want to serve Bankers, but to work for Europe and its Citizens' interests", added Juncker.
- "For the moment, we want to act urgently to regulate the Crisis. But the time will come when those responsible for this, will have to account for their actions. Yes to real Capitalism, No to Speculators. Those who abused, will face sanctions, Sarkozy warned.
Need stimulates activities which create new organs, say biologists, and Gordon Brown, compatriot of Spencer, the famous bio-Historian, would certainly not deny that, after his surprise visit to EuroZone's Summit in Paris, which attracted him one hour more than scheduled...
Decisions include also the creation of a Crisis-management European mechanism, which "requires constant Monitoring", as well as strengthening Economic policy cooperation between EuroZone's countries.
Sarkozy will be judged by History not just by the immediate Economic results, expected at the end of this week's decision-making proces at National and EU level, but also by the more far-reaching consequences at the aftermath of this Historic EuroZone 1st Summit : Will it succeed to become a precursor forging a New era in European institution's revitalization ?
Significantly, the French President sat, during discussions, between German Chancelor Merkel, and British Prime Minister Brown, facing the chairmen of EuroGroup, Juncker, ECB : Truchet, and EU Commission, Baroso, with Prime Ministers of Spain, Zapatero (a hot partisan of EuroZone's Summit) at his right side, and Italy's Berlusconi, at his left, surrounded by Austrian, Belgian, Cyprus', Finland's, Greece's, and Ireland's leaders, as well as Slovakia's, Slovenia's, Portugal's, Netherlands', Malta's and Luxembourg's leaders.
Meanwhile, those who tabled for a rift between French and German positions were faced with a smiling Merkel at De Gaulle-Adenauer's meeting place, a sunny Saturday morning, and a particularly active-looking Merkel inside the French Presidential Palace at Elysee's gardens on Sunday, (as happy few photographers discovered)..
- "De Gaulle's hilltop, at Colombey-les-2-Eglises, gave an astonishing overview to a huge landscape, entirely surrounded by splendid Nature, as far as eyes could see", said to EuroFora an obviously charmed German Journalist.
She was describing Saturday's inauguration of a High-Tech Memorial close to the Historic Giant Double Lorraine's Cross, built by famous Novelist Andre Malraux, to perpetuate the Memory of his famous call for "Resistance" to NAZI, and his vision for the creation of New Institutions and Franco-German reconciliation, to foster Europe's role in the World, also for the Future.
Children playing at Elysee's gardens before the Historic 1st EuroZone's Summit : What Europe's Future will look like ?