Blowing wind to the negotiations

Written by Takako

Agenda for the Word by Word Negotiations

Wind farms off shore in Copenhagen

After having the harsh discussion over the "Danish text" and "BASIC draft" in plenary sessions, the whole negotiation seems to go into behind the sight of observers. Some meetings are postponed and others closed without remarkable progress.

Leaving behind all the closed negotiation in Bella Center,we went out to the off shore in Copenhagen to see the beautiful wind farm. The tour was organized by Danish governmental department and business entities in the wind power generation. There we discover the lined wind farms which supply 16% of whole electricity in Denmark. It aimed at promoting the exportation of their wind farm related technologies and know how. Some foreign delegate were participating there and seems to be interested in introducing the wind farm in their home countries.

Getting back to the Bella Center, we find out that the almost all the meetings were closed to NGO. However, behind the closed doors, negotiations were mainly focused on the two newly suited draft by both chairs of AWG-KP and AWG-LCA.

As far as I concerned, the draft text of AWG-KP has some controversial points: the emission reduction target by developing countries, application of MRV criteria to developing countries and the ambitious emission reduction target by developed countries. This KP draft seems to be appreciated rather by developing countries than developed countries. Developed countries including Japan partly agreed on further discussion to be held in respect of that draft text while expressing their concerns about the specific topics.

The word by word negotiation on Ad Hoc Working groups will be starting from next day with so many uncertainty left. The long winding way to the agreement is now just arrived at the starting points.