Global Warming

Pledge to Curb Global Warming: Germany and Mexico ‘2-Degree-Goal’

Pledges made, deadlocks break, goals set but still the condition is same as before. Global Warming agenda was discussed many a times, countless Climate conference are ended. Results are as usual dissatisfied to curb global warming. Germany and Mexico again in the same race to halt global warming. Once more we have to trust these [...]

Pledges made, deadlocks break, goals set but still the condition is same as before. Global Warming agenda was discussed many a times, countless Climate conference are ended. Results are as usual dissatisfied to curb global warming.

Germany and Mexico again in the same race to halt global warming. Once more we have to trust these groundless climate talks. Five months after the troubled United Nations conference in Copenhagen, Germany and Mexico are teaming up in an effort to break the deadlock in negotiations on a global climate deal.

Mexico and Germany are starting three days of meetings with 45 countries; the 45 delegations will represent the industrialized countries, developing countries and emerging economies. Apart from Europe, which is sending seven ministers and Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, the United States and major emerging economies – China, India, Brazil and South Africa – will be present, as well as Africa, small island states (Maldives, Grenada and Barbados) and vulnerable countries, like Bangladesh.

President Felipe Calderon of Mexico said in Bonn the world had to escape the trap of thinking it faced a yes-no choice between fighting global warming or fighting global poverty. Climate talks so far have been “hampered by lack of trust and leadership,” German Environment Minister Norbert Rottgen said bluntly in the letter of invitation.

Participants will try to restore confidence among the parties. Six working groups will explore: mitigation (reduction of emissions) and reporting and follow-up methods, adaptation, the carbon market, finance, technology development and transfer, and reducing emissions from deforestation.
The meeting is not expected to adopt any conclusions or formal recommendations. The aim is more to facilitate the relaunch of the UN negotiations at the end of May in Bonn. Delegates to the Petersburg Dialogue will also promote decentralized initiatives, seen as an effective way to take the negotiation process forward by setting up cooperation and experience-sharing.

We must have to end the vicious cycle of lack of trust and ambition. The reductions needed to keep global warming below 2°C and stabilise it at 1.5°C over the long term. “This can create the trust needed to tackle the more difficult issues to put in place a fair and ambitious legal framework in 2011”.

The only thing to say in the last is, the fate of the protocol — fiercely defended by developing countries — is as controversial as it is unclear.