{"id":8774,"date":"2012-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/2021\/02\/03\/no-oasis-for-climate-in-doha-desert\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T14:13:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T14:13:27","slug":"no-oasis-for-climate-in-doha-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/2012\/12\/08\/no-oasis-for-climate-in-doha-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"No oasis for climate in Doha desert"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The UN climate talks failed to deliver increased cuts to carbon pollution, nor did they provide any credible pathway to $100 billion per year in finance by 2020 to help the poorest countries deal with climate change, according to the 700 NGOs who are members of Climate Action Network-International (CAN-I).<\/p>\n

\tTwo weeks ago, just prior to the start of these negotiations, numerous credible reports were published by an array of well respected scientists, economists and climate change experts, all with essentially the same conclusion – we are currently on an unsustainable path which virtually guarantees the world will be faced with catastrophic effects from climate change, according to Greenpeace International executive director, Kumi Naidoo.<\/p>\n

\t“Two weeks of negotiations have not altered that path and that politicians need to reflect the consensus around climate change through funds, targets and effective action."<\/p>\n

\tWWF head of delegation, Tasneem Essop, said Doha was supposed to be an important element in setting up for a fair, ambitious and binding deal in 2015 and therefore needed to rebuild trust and instill equity.<\/p>\n

\t“These talks have failed the climate and they have failed developing nations,” Essop said. “The Doha decision has delivered no real cuts in emissions, it has delivered no concrete finance, and it has not delivered on equity.”<\/p>\n

\tGovernments have delivered a very vague outcome that might lead to increased ambition but only if the politics shift to working for the people, our future, and not the polluters.<\/p>\n

\tIn particular, countries including the US, who have continually blocked progress in the talks, need to fundamentally change their positions in line with their obligation to lead on the solution to this crisis that they created.<\/p>\n

\tTim Gore, International Climate Change Policy Advisor for Oxfam, said Doha had done nothing to guarantee that public climate finance would go up next year, not down.<\/p>\n

\t“Developing countrieshave come here in good faith and have been forced to accept vague words and no numbers,” Gore said. “It's a betrayal.”<\/p>\n

\n\tWael Hmaidan, director of CAN-I, said that ministers needed to go back to their capitals and work hard to put concrete proposals on the table for the next talks so that progress could be made towards to secure a fair, ambitious, and binding deal in 2015.<\/p>\n

\t“The path forward is actually quite clear: we have the technology and know-how to reduce dangerous carbon pollution, protect vulnerable communities, and grow sustainable, resilient, economies.”<\/p>\n

\t“But we also need people in all regions of the world to demand leadership from their governments on climate change – just like the new youth movement in the Arab region has done.”<\/p>\n

\tThe Doha Decision:<\/strong><\/p>\n