If the world stays on track with the recent U.S.-China bilateral agreement on emissions reductions and the Lima Agreement, the average global temperature will exceed two degrees Celsius. Beyond this threshold, scientists believe, the scale of climate change is likely to be catastrophic. Similarly, the fact that an addition of $10 billion to the UNFCC Green Climate Fund, agreed in Lima, is a cause for celebration, reflects how serious things are. This fund is intended to support projects, programmes, policies and other activities aimed at helping developing countries cope with climate change. According to a conservative estimate, $1 trillion is invested each year worldwide in post-carbon technology and business models. The DLP does not preclude a country from receiving its fair share. Nor would we oppose a genuine agreement to improve living standards in underdeveloped countries, but the Lima Declaration is not such an agreement. As time has said, his “demands” were more insidious than we were led to believe. On 11 December, on the eve of the originally scheduled end of the conference, negotiations almost failed when developing countries saw changes to the draft agreement that had been painstakingly negotiated over the past ten days. The revised draft had given an advantage to developed countries, especially by diluting their responsibilities. Environmental groups around the world have expressed dismay at the Lima agreement. Sam Smith, head of climate policy at the World Wide Fund for Nature, was quoted by the BBC as saying: “The text has gone from weaker to weaker to weaker, and it is indeed very weak.” In a blog post titled “Limping Lima at Home,” Aldan Meyer, director of policy and strategy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a network based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said that “climate change is advancing, but too many leaders are pretending to have all the time in the world.” 1. Centre for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), International24.
Center for Women`s Global Leadership (CWGL) at Rutgers University, USA25. Centre for the Enforcement of Human Rights International, Austria26. Centre for Justice and Reconciliation, Democratic Republic of the Congo.27 Centro Bono, Dominican Republic28. Human Rights Documentation Centre “Segundo Montes Mozo S.J.” (CSMM), Ecuador29. Center for The Study of Law, Justice and Society -DeJuSticia, Colombia30. Centre for studies for the development of labour and agriculture (CEDLA), Bolivian31. . . .
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