CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT

The overall objective of the Aprodev Working Group on Climate Change and Development is global climate equity. Within this overall objective, the Group will focus on strategically influencing European Union policies with regard to climate change, aiming to ensure that they safeguard and are coherent with the EU’s stated poverty eradication and development policies.

APRODEV will focus its work on the following issues:

• the EU’s approach to the current UNFCCC processes, with the aim of ensuring that the EU recognises both its historic responsibility for climate change and that developing countries have a right to development which must be protected.
• the EU’s Energy and Climate Policy Strategy, the European Climate Change Programme, the EU-Africa Partnership on Climate Change, the Global Climate Change Alliance, and EU positions in the negotiations towards an adequate and equitable Post-2012 agreement.

APRODEV papers and positions

APRODEV, CIDSE and Caritas Europa joint letter to EU leaders on Climate Change before the Spring Council - March 2009

APRODEV response to the EC communication, Towards a comprehensive Climate Change Agreement in Copenhagen - February 2009

APRODEV submission in preparation of an EC communication on a post-2012 international agreement on Climate change - December 2008

APRODEV Poznan lobbying points

APRODEV submission to EC electronic consultation "Towards a comprehensive and ambitious post-2012 climate change agreement"

Other related papers and positions

A Call for Leadership: A Greenhouse Development Rights analysis of the EU’s proposed 2020 targets by Tom Athanasiou (EcoEquity), Sivan Kartha (Stockholm Environment Institute), Paul Baer (EcoEquity), and Eric Kemp-Benedict (Stockholm Environment Institute). For more information on the Greenhouse Development Rights framework

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