Canada was shamed once again with the #1 Fossil of the Day Award at the UN Climate talks in Barcelona for their efforts ‘to drag down the climate talks’ and for being un-constructive in the climate negotiations.
What Canadian delegation said:
At an informal briefing on mitigation of climate impacts Canada suggested that losses or damages due to climate change should not be addressed as part of the objectives on adaptation.
“would not envisage loss and damage [due to climate change impacts] being addressed as part of the objectives on adaptation”
Perhaps it would be better if Canada and other major emitters waited for a world court to find us at fault for knowingly contributing to damage and destruction around the world for doing so little to combat climate change.
With the African nations walking out of negotiations and G77 supporting them there has been an effort to ratchet up negotiations and move the Cop15 process forward.
Will Canada shine its shoes and start offering real solutions or continue to stall the process?
“A Copenhagen Agreement that does not recognize that such impacts exist and that does not include resolute provisions to address these impacts would mean that the world’s most vulnerable people, namely those for which adaptation funding is not available, would be left out of the agreement,” said Antonio Hill from Oxfam International.
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