Strong words from Sweden during the Plenary Discussions;
Currently we are tree colleagues from ÅF listening to the Plenary Discussions. The issues being discussed in the AWG-KP text relates among others to
1. how to handle Carbon Capture and Storage (to be included or not and if; how to include it),
2. the Development of the Clean Development Mechanism (f.ex to facilitate rules for small scale energy efficiency (less than 20 GWh savings per year) and small scale (5 MW) renewable energy projects using renewable energy as primary technology), whether to include new nuclear taken into operation after 2008 or not),
3. the Development of Emission Trading Mechanisms
4. Banking between the commitment period
There are also a lot of discussions about wording in the LCA (the Long term Cooperation Action) text and it was the coherence among the LCA and the KP texts that Sweden’s negotiator Anders Turesson objected at: the wording in the KP text is to weak; the discussions about emission reduction commitments as it is now will not stop global worming at 2 degree Celsius (rather 3 degrees) and it is not coherent with the LCA wording. Some important countries such as Brasil, South Africa, China Canada and Sudan is now commenting on the to track approach papers…