Sumario: UN Framework Convention on Climate Change - Intervention by EU Commissioner Dimas (15 November 2006: Nairobi)
Intervention by Stavros Dimas, European Commissioner for Environment, High level segment of the Twelfth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Second Session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, Nairobi
Mr President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I would like to thank the Kenyan Government for hosting this important meeting of the Parties to the Climate change Convention and the Kyoto Protocol.
We have two key tasks to accomplish here.
One is to strengthen the ability of these climate change agreements to respond to the needs of developing countries in Africa and elsewhere.
The other is to make progress towards consensus on the shape of a future climate change regime. This must deliver the deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions needed to achieve the Convention's ultimate objective.
I look forward to working under the guidance of Minister Kibwana to meet these goals over the next three days.
Climate change is happening. We are all vulnerable to it and we are all going to have to adapt to it. But the poorest nations, and their poorest members of society, are the most vulnerable of all.
That is why it is important that our negotiators have achieved a breakthrough on adaptation issues here.
It is excellent news that the five-year programme of work on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation has been finalised and can now start.
I am very pleased too that the principles and modalities of the Adaptation Fund for developing countries have been agreed. We need now to make rapid progress over the coming months to operationalise the fund so that it can begin to support adaptation projects on the ground.
Technology transfer is crucial for development. The European Union supports an enhanced technology transfer framework, and we had hoped that this too could be finalised here in Nairobi.
Important flows of clean technology to developing countries are being generated by the Clean Development Mechanism. This is due not least due to demand for credits from European governments, as well as from companies through the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
We share the widespread concern at the relative lack of CDM projects in Africa and other poorer regions. The European Commission therefore very much welcomes Secretary-General Kofi Annan's important Nairobi Framework initiative on capacity-building to address this problem.
The Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund proposed by the European Commission last month will also contribute to more equitable distribution of CDM projects, by providing risk capital for small-scale sustainable energy projects in developing countries. It will also give further impetus to the transfer of clean technology.
The Commission will contribute 80 million euros to this fund, known as GEEREF. The first tranche of 15 million will go to African, Caribbean and Pacific countries next year.
The science and the economics of climate change are clearer than ever today - but there is a widening gap between what we know and what we are doing about it.
Mr President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
We need the sign of political courage and leadership that Kofi Annan encouraged us to find this morning.
We know that to have a chance of keeping climate change within tolerable limits, we have to halve global emissions by mid-century. This should be our shared vision.
Let us use the next three days to start building this consensus and set a time frame for completing the process.
Thank you.
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