Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Durban talks: how Connie Hedegaard got countries to agree on climate deal

9:13 AM | Posted by Free Game Zone | | Edit Post

The head of the EU held the nerve of climate change in the U.S., China and India to accept a legally binding agreement to reduce carbon emissions

Connie Hedegaard, head of the climate of the EU was seen as the hero of the Durban meeting that there was a surprisingly strong result in the early hours of Sunday.

"She is very, very good and we feel very fortunate to have," said Chris Huhne, the UK energy and climate change secretary. "He kept all together in an impressive -. A class act"

Hedegaard, then once the youngest person elected to the Danish Parliament, was the architect of the EU plan to bring together developed and developing for the first time in a legally binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Reached an agreement that met most of the objectives of the EU, met most of the developing countries and even brought the United States on board.

Thus, Hedegaard saved the UN process of negotiations without an agreement in Durban collapsed. Switching Hedegaard also forced China to recognize that legal commitments are equal to developed countries.

"You could hear the movement of tectonic plates," said one diplomat. "This is very important not only for the climate negotiations, but in terms of geopolitics."

  • keys to success was the hard-line attitude adopted Hedegaard. Developing countries, including China, have insisted that the 1997 Kyoto Protocol should be extended if the current performance targets in 2012. The member countries of the EU are practically the only ones who want to do. But while some Member States wanted to give the extension as a matter of course, had other ideas Hedegaard - only it was agreed that developing countries have also signed a roadmap
  • This would imply a commitment to reduce emissions legally binding under the same conditions that the rich countries, a recognition that the differences between developed and emerging economies have changed since 1997 when the Kyoto Protocol was developed. This also allowed the U.S. to participate, because the U.S. had insisted that bind only to any agreement on the basis of law parity.Hedegaard do not know about the negotiations - as Minister of Environment of Denmark since 2004, was the host and chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Summit 2009.
  • There he witnessed, painfully at first hand the embarrassment of the EU in the hands of U.S. and BASIC countries - Brazil, South Africa, India and China - where President Obama took his counterparts in the shade to forge an agreement on emissions, which left outside the EU. European leaders and the UN were visibly surprised when Obama announced his agreement to the media. The agreement was immediately denounced as weak as countries agreed that it was not legally enforceable, and the summit ended in scenes of chaos and acrimony.
Durban was Hedegaard
opportunity to raise a new phoenix from the ashes of the fire of Copenhagen. And he was determined to do so.



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