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CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE 27 February - 6 March 2005 |
The Delegates Jon-Paul - Bahamas David C - Barbados Alice - Cape Verde Neil - Comoros Sarah - Cook Islands Katherine - Cuba Frances - Cyprus Garry - Dominica Maxine - Fiji Nicholas J - Grenada Stephen - Haiti Adrian - Jamaica Carol - Malta Yvonne - Mauritius Richard - Antigua and Barbuda David P - Papua New Guinea Nicholas R - Samoa Alan - Singapore Jayne - Seychelles Peter - Tonga Glenn - Secretary General       |
Agreed demands to put forward to the United Nations * The international community as a whole must take urgent action to reduce domestic GHG emissions to a level that the IPCC considers to be safe. This requires a total reduction in CO2 of 60% (from 1990 levels) by 2050, with the industrialised countries making reductions of 90%. * The international community should act in accordance with the precautionary principle. The possibility of irreversible 'catastrophic changes' devastating AOSIS states needs to be acknowledged and prevented. This can be done through increased energy efficiency, switching to renewable energy and developing cleaner fossil-fuel technologies. * The mechanisms in the Kyoto protocol need further research to reduce methodological inequities. The credit system that is the CDM must stay in place but with changes in policy to provide legally binding contracts that require the developed countries and their corporations to provide the agreed technological needs and wants of the AOSIS. This is as opposed to what the developed countries and corporations based there choose to provide. * The international community should, on the grounds of equity, give the AOSIS a greater say in international policy-making given the magnitude of the risks that they face. The changes required include greater transparency and inclusiveness in decision-making processes. * The international community should consider and commence planning for appropriate relocation to other states for countries which are no longer inhabitable. Although the responsibility for relocating people displaced from land within an AOSIS state remains with that state the international community must provide sanctuary for refugees so created. * In accordance with the ‘principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and causes’ the international community should facilitate access to environmentally sound technologies (through the mechanism described in D3), to assist AOSIS members in both energy generation and conservation, and the preservation of freshwater supplies. * The international community should meet existing aid commitments in full with immediate effect. * The international community should set up a dedicated relief fund to assist AOSIS members in their national climate change action plans. Funds would be collected by requesting that all countries provide 0.5 % of their GDP. The fund would cover both mitigating climate change through measures such as reforesting degraded hillsides, and adapting to climate change through measures such as intra-island relocation and building sea-defenses. |