Saturday, December 19, 2009

Thu FLASH: Oz cleans up Fossils

Just joined CAN briefing for the afternoon. (informal plenary speeches REALLY unconstructive and boring.) They use 'etherpad.com' as an online work pad, allowing up to 16 people to jot ideas as they occur, in real time.

Walked in and grabbed CAN ECO news www.climatenetwork.org/eco
to find that Australia cleand up at FoD yesterday. 1st for heavying Tuvalu and other pacific islands to accept 2'c rise and 450ppm, "or else"; and joint 2nd/3rd with Canada and Japan for failing to even keep up with the US's meagre crumbs from the table.

ECO also gave Rudd a rap for supporting the two tracks (Kyoto AND the proposed "Copenhagen Accord"), but noted our pathetic 5% target, and lack of tangible finance numbers.
As the US has joined UK and France in supporting the US$100BN p.a. by 2020 idea.

CAN has a couple of folks in Bella, who said that the delay this morning was due to a Friends of the Chair mtg going on. FoD nominations delayed as day is yet young (1500)
Fossil of the Year was easily won by Canada.

The speeches.
General feeling - echoed in The Guardian - was that Obama's keynote was pretty ordinary, very US-oriented, and didn't push the bounds of already-known US thoughts. US will put in 10BN of the 100BN p.a.

Lula said that Brazil is roughly self-sufficient, and willing to make some sacrifices to achieve more ("Brazil IS committed to helping developing countries").

China was mostly usual noise - nothing really new - supporting transparency (a;ong with the US).

Lesotho (LDC) expressed severe disappointment with current progress, and pushed for consultations to continue after COP. No one spoke for AOSIS or G77.

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