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:
APRODEV and member agencies' papers and positions
Copenhagen Legal Options & Equity
The Aprodev Climate Change Working Group launched the report "Copenhagen Legal Options & Equity" on November 5 at the UN Climate talks in Barcelona , the final round of negotiations before COP 15 in December. Read the press release.
The report analyses different proposals for what type of climate change agreement should be agreed in Copenhagen, based on how well the different options respect the right to development of poor countries, how they provide for ambitious emission reductions from developed countries and recognize developed countries' historical responsibility for climate change.
Some questions the report raises include: How can governments best be held accountable if they do not live up to their promises? What are the the political risks of replacing Kyoto Protocol with a new treaty, as proposed by the EU - and what are the consequences for developing countries?
The report draws the conclusion that the Kyoto Protocol needs to be extended and improved - not replaced. Building a new treaty from scratch would not only put equity elements of the Kyoto Protocol at risk - it could also delay action, lower the global level of ambition and lead to continued negotiations for years to come. The climate and the world's poor and vulnerable cannot afford to wait any longer.
Read the report or position paper for the full analysis.
Christian Aid Report: Growing Pains – The Possibilities and Problems of Biofuels, August 2009
APRODEV submission in preparation of an EC communication on a post-2012 international agreement on Climate change - December 2008
APRODEV Poznan lobbying points
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
Support the Countdown to Copenhagen campaign to ensure world leaders deliver a fair deal for the poor.
Take a pledge HERE
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