Bolivia hits at Climate Change text

UN: Bolivia criticized Wednesday at the United Nations the exclusion of the main stands of underdeveloped countries from the text which is the current base of climate change negotiations.

Now what we have is an imbalanced document which does not lead to any progress in discussions, it includes neither the proposals of the Group of 77, said Bolivia’s Permanent Representative to UN Pablo Solon.

The Diplomat in a press conference referred to the recent round of negotiations held in Bonn, where a text was drafted, but instead of including the different stands, it excluded some of those already existing in the first document.

It is a simple “Copenhagen Plus” agreement, he said in reference to the text imposed by a limited group of countries in the so-called summit on climate change held in Copenhagen last December.

That meeting failed to achieve its objective to establish concrete greenhouse reduction targets and the final document was strongly rejected by a number of delegations, including that of Bolivia.

What was drafted in Bonn contains all of what imposed in Copenhagen and excludes all what is new, as it seeks to create divisions among underdeveloped countries, said Solon.

He said that neither it envisages the possibility to broaden the Kyoto Protocol for another period and has taken into account only the options agreed in Copenhagen.

The Bolivian representative highlighted the need to agree on a new document or a meeting scheduled for July as the only way “to take a step forward.” Now the situation is very difficult and if all stands are not included, a conflict nobody wants is set to break out.

United Nations, Prensa Latina