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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Durban climate talks: India gives guarded response to draft negotiating text by Urmi A Goswami

Durban climate talks: India gives guarded response to draft negotiating text by Urmi A Goswami

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published Published on Dec 4, 2011   modified Modified on Dec 4, 2011

A 73-page draft negotiating text was issued at the end of the first week of climate talks in the South African city of Durban. The text, issued by the chair of the Bali track of the negotiations, is an "amalgamation" of draft texts and will provide the basis for the final document that will be considered by the Conference of Parties or the general assembly of the 193 countries and the European Union. 

The draft negotiating text puts together options on all issues and elements that would make for a balanced outcome - finance, technology, shared vision, longterm goal, capacity building. It doesn't address the contentious question of "legal forms" but that is because discussions on that issue are being held separately under a group that will report directly to the Conference of Parties. 

The text appears to indicate that the South African presidency would like the final outcome of the meeting to be a "party-driven" process. "This document intends to bring together the elements of the draft AWG-LCA outcome in the form of an amalgamation of the draft texts emerging from the work in the informal groups ...It provides an overview aimed at enabling delegates to see where there are gaps or lack of balance and to find ways to address these accordingly," the introduction to the text states. 

It seems that South Africa would like the high-level ministerial segment to work from a text that has been prepared through discussions by country representatives. In the recent past, both at Copenhagen and Cancun, the chairs of the working groups have produced texts, which while taking the considerations of the countries on board presented their approach to issues. Saturday's 73-page document is not in that form. 

It has put all the options down. The response to the text has so far been guarded. "It is an evolving text," said India's lead negotiator JM Mauskar. India is of the view that the current text has reflected in some cases the understanding and perceptions of facilitators, and in other submissions by various countries, this would require some streamlining. 

India has suggested that on issues where there are proposals or submissions by countries, these should provide the basis for negotiations. The United States has drawn attention to some ongoing consultations and seeming contradictions with the Cancun Agreements which would need to be resolved. 

The chair, Daniel Reifsnyder of the United States, described the exercise in terms of a stock taking, so that negotiators realise the enormity of the task ahead and quantum of work left. 

"This document is therefore an intermediate product presenting work in progress, a Saturday snapshot of where we are at the end of this first week of COP 17. It is clear that more work to further focus and streamline the texts is necessary to be able to deliver the final outcome document to be presented to the COP by next week," the chair stated. 

How big the task is will be clear once the negotiators return after a day's break on Monday, and work on the text begins ahead of the ministerial segment that is set to start on Wednesday.


The Economic Times, 5 December, 2011, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/durban-climate-talks-india-gives-guarded-response-to-draft-negotiating-text/articleshow/10986870.cms


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