CONCLUSIONS of the GLOBE EuropeFocal Points Strategy Conference

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

European Parliament, Brussels,April 30th 2009

GLOBE Position on the Negotiation of apost-Kyoto UN Climate Agreement

G L O B E

EUROPE

Preamble

GLOBE is a worldwide communityof parliamentarians interested in co-operating across country and partylines to further the wider environmen-tal agenda of climate and biodiversityprotection and sustainable develop-ment, launched in 1989 with the sup-port of leading legislators like US Sena-tor

Al Gore

, MEPs

Hemmo Muntingh

and

François Roelants

du Vivier

, and

Takashi Kosugi

, Member of the Japa-nese Diet. GLOBE provides an inde-pendent forum where parliamentar-ians who are committed to developingambitious policies to enhance environ-mental protection and sustainable de-velopment can talk and work together,in dialogue with key policy stakehold-ers. The National Focal Points of theGLOBE network in Europe met on 30

April 2009 and agreed on the followingpriorities for GLOBE Europe.We are convinced of the importance ofenhancing the involvement of nationalparliamentarians in the formulation ofEU policies, as proposed by the LisbonTreaty, and this is why, paying regardto the ground-breaking work of theEuropean Parliament on the issue ofclimate change of the last few years,

the GLOBE International consensuspaper Combating Climate Change: AnInternational Cooperation FrameworkBeyond 2012 by legislators from theG8 and +5 countries agreed at theGLOBE International Tokyo LegislatorsForum on 29 June 2008, the Recom-mendations of the GLOBE Internation-al Working Group on Biofuels to theGLOBE International Tokyo forum in June 2008, and the 2008 Communiquéof the Road to Copenhagen Conferenceof November 2008, we agree to for-mulate common policy recommenda-tions to our parliamentary colleaguesand Ministers and to take a number of joint actions ourselves.National parliaments should call onthe EU and the Member States tomaintain a leading role in internation-al climate policy by putting forwardconcrete proposals for the EU’s contri-bution for funding climate protectionefforts in developing countries at theEuropean Council next June, and speakwith one voice in order to maintainits credibility as a climate protectionleader; to ensure that climate justiceis recognized as a guiding principle forthe upcoming negotiations and anyplanning for nancing future climatepolicy; and to actively pursue a Co-penhagen agreement which takes intoaccount the most recent scientic re-ports on climate change, commits tostabilisation levels and temperaturetargets that provide strong probabilityof avoiding dangerous climate change,and allows for regular reviews to en-sure that targets are in line with thelatest science. GLOBE Europe regretsthat, after more than a year of discus-sion and contrary to their explicit com-mitment in Pozna

, the EU MemberStates failed to reach an agreementon the EU’s contribution for fundingclimate protection efforts in devel-oping countries in the Spring Councillast in March. This failure representsa severe blow to Europe’s leadershipahead of the COP-15 and jeopardisesthe chance of a satisfactory outcomein Copenhagen.On the other hand, in the current nan-cial and economic crisis, the EU’s objec-tive of ghting climate change can becombined with major new economicopportunities to develop new cleantechnologies, to create jobs and to en-hance energy security. An agreement inCopenhagen could provide the necessarystimulus for such a ‘New Deal’ boost-ing economic growth, promoting greentechnologies and creating new jobs inthe EU and in developing countries.

GLOBE Position on theNegotiation of a post-KyotoUN climate agreement

1.1 EU Mandate:The European Councilmust aim for an international agree-ment with industrialised countries thatseeks to achieve collective emissionsreductions at a level which ensuresreaching the 2 degree objective of theEuropean Union.1.2. Funding for mitigation and adapta-tion in developing countries & capacitybuilding

1 Particularly: the EP report on the Commission Communication Building a Global Climate Change Alliance between theEuropean Union and poor developing countries most vulnerable to climate change adopted on 21 October 2008; theEP report 2050: The future begins today - Recommendations for the EU’s future integrated policy on climate changeof the Temporary Committee on Climate Change, adopted on 4 February 2009; and the Resolution of the EuropeanParliament on the Commission Communication Towards a comprehensive climate change agreement in Copenhagenadopted on 11 March 2009.

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GLOBE Europe calls on the EuropeanCouncil to make tangible commit-ments on nancing, when adopting anegotiating mandate for the Copen-hagen conference. We welcome theconcrete proposals put forward by theEuropean Parliament in this regard.

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GLOBE Europe believes that climate justice must be a guiding principlefor the upcoming negotiations inCopenhagen and for any planningfor nancing future climate policy;we therefore welcome the EuropeanParliament’s proposal to establishan EU Global Climate Change Alli-ance whose purpose would be to es-tablish a framework through whichthe EU will provide substantial re-sources to address climate changein developing countries and willwork jointly with them to integrateclimate change into poverty reduc-tion strategies.

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A majority of such funding must benew and additional to Ofcial Devel-opment Assistance (ODA).

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Around 25% of the auctioning reve-nues generated by the EU ETS shouldbe dedicated to nance mitigationand adaptation to global warmingin the developing countries whichdecide to ratify the internationalagreement. Part of this funding shouldbe dedicated to capacity building inrecipient countries, to maximise theeffectiveness of the support provided.

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A large part of the collective contri-bution towards the mitigation effortsand adaptation needs of develop-ing countries must be dedicated toprojects striving to halt deforestationand forest degradation, and to refor-estation and afforestation projects.

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The industrialised countries must de-velop a comprehensive action plan onthe future nancing of climate policy,covering all relevant areas and sourc-es of nancing including the CDM; theEuropean Council should mandatethe Commission to urgently developsuch an EU action plan in view of theCopenhagen negotiations.