The Deal The World Needs: Parliamentary Leadership for Copenhagen and Beyond

European Parliament, Brussels, April 30

2009

GLOBE Europe Focal Points Strategy Conference

CONCLUSIONSPreamble

GLOBE is a worldwide

community of parliamentarians interested in co-operating across country and party lines to further the wider environmental agenda of climate and biodiversity protection andsustainable development. GLOBE provides an independent forum where parliamentarians who arecommitted to developing ambitious policies to enhance environmental protection and sustainabledevelopment can talk and work together, in dialogue with key policy stakeholders.The National Focal Points of the GLOBE network in Europe met on 30

April 2009 and agreed on thefollowing priorities for GLOBE Europe.We are convinced of the importance of enhancing the involvement of national parliamentarians in theformulation of EU policies, as proposed by the Lisbon Treaty, and this is why, paying regard to theground-breaking work of the European Parliament on the issue of climate change of the last few years

,the GLOBE International consensus paper

Combating Climate Change: An International CooperationFramework Beyond 2012

by legislators from the G8 and +5 countries agreed at the GLOBEInternational Tokyo Legislators Forum on 29 June 2008, the

Recommendations of the GLOBE International Working Group on Biofuels

to the GLOBE International Tokyo forum in June 2008, andthe

2008

Communiqué

of the Road to Copenhagen Conference of November 2008, we agree toformulate common policy recommendations to our parliamentary colleagues and Ministers and to take anumber of joint actions ourselves. National parliaments should call on the EU and the Member States to maintain a leading role ininternational climate policy by putting forward concrete proposals for the EU's contribution for fundingclimate protection efforts in developing countries at the European Council next June, and speak withone voice in order to maintain its credibility as a climate protection leader; to ensure that climate justiceis recognized as a guiding principle for the upcoming negotiations and any planning for financing futureclimate policy; and to actively pursue a Copenhagen agreement which takes into account the mostrecent scientific reports on climate change, commits to stabilisation levels and temperature targets that provide strong probability of avoiding dangerous climate change, and allows for regular reviews toensure that targets are in line with the latest science.GLOBE Europe regrets that, after more than a year of discussion and contrary to their explicitcommitment in Poznań, the EU Member States failed to reach an agreement on the EU's contributionfor funding climate protection efforts in developing countries in the Spring Council last in March. This1

Particularly: the EP report on the Commission Communication

Building a Global Climate Change Alliance between the European Union and poor developing countries most vulnerable to climate change

adopted on 21 October 2008; the EPreport

2050: The future begins today - Recommendations for the EU's future integrated policy on climate change

of theTemporary Committee on Climate Change, adopted on 4 February 2009; and the Resolution of the European Parliament onthe Commission Communication

Towards a comprehensive climate change agreement in Copenhagen

adopted on 11March 2009.

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failure represents a severe blow to Europe's leadership ahead of the COP-15 and jeopardises the chanceof a satisfactory outcome in Copenhagen.On the other hand, in the current financial and economic crisis, the EU's objective of fighting climatechange can be combined with major new economic opportunities to develop new clean technologies, tocreate jobs and to enhance energy security. An agreement in Copenhagen could provide the necessarystimulus for such a 'New Deal' boosting economic growth, promoting green technologies and creatingnew jobs in the EU and in developing countries.

1. Negotiation of a post-Kyoto UN climate agreement1.1 EU Mandate:

The European Council must aim for an international agreement with industrialisedcountries that seeks to achieve collective emissions reductions at a level which ensures reaching the 2degree objective of the European Union.

1.2. Funding for mitigation and adaptation in developing countries & capacity building

- GLOBE Europe calls on the European Council to make tangible commitments on financing, whenadopting a negotiating mandate for the Copenhagen conference. We welcome the concrete proposals putforward by the European Parliament in this regard.- GLOBE Europe believes that climate justice must be a guiding principle for the upcomingnegotiations in Copenhagen and for any planning for financing future climate policy; we thereforewelcome the European Parliament’s proposal to establish an EU Global Climate Change Alliancewhose purpose would be to establish a framework through which the EU will provide substantialresources to address climate change in developing countries and will work jointly with them to integrateclimate change into poverty reduction strategies.- A majority of such funding must be new and additional to Official Development Assistance (ODA).- Around 25% of the auctioning revenues generated by the EU ETS should be dedicated to financemitigation and adaptation to global warming in the developing countries which decide to ratify theinternational agreement. Part of this funding should be dedicated to capacity building in recipientcountries, to maximise the effectiveness of the support provided.- A large part of the collective contribution towards the mitigation efforts and adaptation needs of developing countries must be dedicated to projects striving to halt deforestation and forest degradation,and to reforestation and afforestation projects.- The industrialised countries must develop a comprehensive action plan on the future financing of climate policy, covering all relevant areas and sources of financing including the CDM; the EuropeanCouncil should mandate the Commission to urgently develop such an EU action plan in view of theCopenhagen negotiations.-2-