Advances in Cancun Mexico will discuss newe
Advances in Cancun Mexico will discuss new financing scheme.
Juan David Leal Mexico, October 18 .- Mexico today flatly rejected the possibility of reaching a new binding global agreement on greenhouse gas emissions and advance the discussion of the next Conference of Parties to Convention on Climate Change ( COP16) to focus on the need for new financing schemes.
Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico and the next president of COP16, Patricia Espinosa, said today at a, mortal gold, press conference that "the conditions are right" to reach a new agreement on reducing emissions when held in Cancun, Mexican Caribbean city The meeting on Climate Change.
According to the official "not indispensable" in the COP16, to be held from November 29 to December 10 next, is put on the table for discussion the need to reach a new, buy fallen earth chips, agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
In this regard, the Minister recalled that the first commitment period and quantified targets for reducing emissions under the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, so there is no urgency to discuss it now.
On the contrary, argue that it is now important to give greater attention to, mortal gold, the issue of "how to build instruments that would allow emerging countries to develop significant actions to combat climate change," which involves financial transfers and improved access to technology.
The minister explained that at COP16 will be discussed rather a "decision package" that will be different sections, some of which could be mitigation, reforestation and recovery of soils, climate change adaptation, technology transfer and financing.
"While there are areas of the negotiations that have made less progress than others, I can say that all countries without exception are convinced of the need to act," he said.
"The emphasis we place on achieving immediate action to develop a global agenda to combat climate change, in which developed countries should provide financial resources and facilitate access to technology to developing countries," said the chancellor.
For his part, Secretary of Environment of Mexico, Rafael Elvira Quesada, a detail that almost one month after the appointment of Cancun, the Mexican authorities seek to achieve "a global agreement for the conservation of forests and jungles with their respective funding developed countries to developing countries. "
In addition, Mexico seeks the creation of a fund for adaptation to climate change, and a second fund, managed by a global institution, incorporating the "climate change funds dispersed into one and with a much larger operation," he stated.
Mexican authorities also work in a partnership with India and China on the transfer of technology between developed economies.
Elvira Quesada also traveled to Egypt for "a new approach to oil countries, to Japan to promote" the conservation of forests and forest "and then hold a meeting with the 44 countries of the world are islands, to meet their particular positions COP16.
In his turn, Minister of Tourism, Gloria Guevara, explained that the city of Cancun is ready to receive the COP16.
Guevara explainedit is expected that the 25,000 hotel rooms that present a target occupancy rate of 90% during the encounter, and the event left in the city revenues by about 70 million dollars.
Mexican authorities estimate that more than 30,000 people will attend each day of the appointment of Cancun, which so far no agent has confirmed his participation.
The event will take place in hotel "Moon Palace" and the Cancun Convention Center Messe.
The Mexican president seek to fund between 6,000 and 9,000 tons of carbon offsets to "neutralize" the contamination that produces its own meeting of the COP16. jd / gt / ics