Reacção africana (grupo G77 das nações mais pobres) ao esboço do texto de acordo preliminar entre Estados Unidos, Reino Unido e Dinamarca ("the danish text"). Este texto não contempla compensações significativas relativas ao Climate Debt, pretende acabar com o protocolo de Kyoto e desviar o controlo dos acordos sobre o Clima da ONU para o Banco Mundial e prevê ainda um nível aceitável para o aumento de temperatura na ordem dos 2 Cº:
Developing countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN's negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol
"Today I witnessed an unexpected and extraordinary outburst of candour from one of the key players in these negotiations — Lumumba Di-Aping, Sudanese by birth and chief negotiator of the so-called G77 bloc (which mostly consists of poor countries)
He did not start his speech immediately. Instead he sat silently, tears rolling down his face. He put his head in his hands and said “We have been asked to sign a suicide pact.” The room was frozen into silence, shocked by the sight of a powerful negotiator, an African elder if you like, exhibiting such strong emotion. He apologised to the audience, but said that in his part of Sudan it was “better to stand and cry than to walk away.”
Speaking in measured tones, Di-Aping first attacked the 2 degrees C warming maximum that most rich countries currently consider acceptable. Referring continuously to science, in particular parts of the latest IPCC report (which he referenced by page and section) he said that 2 degrees C globally meant 3.5 degrees C for much of Africa. He called global warming of 2 degrees C “certain death for Africa”, a type of “climate fascism” imposed on Africa by high carbon emitters. He said Africa was being asked to sign on to an agreement that would allow this warming in exchange for $10 billion, and that Africa was also being asked to “celebrate” this deal.
He explained that, by wanting to subvert the established post-Kyoto process, the industrialised nations were effectively wanting to ignore historical emissions, and by locking in deals that would allow each citizen of those countries to carry on emitting a far greater amount of carbon per year than each citizen in poor countries, would prevent many African countries from lifting their people out of poverty. This was nothing less than a colonisation of the sky, he said. “$10 billion is not enough to buy us coffins”.
Obama, he said, would probably be brought to Copenhagen to ’sanctify’ this deal. “What is Obama going to tell his daughters? That their [Kenyan] relatives’ lives are not worth anything? It is unfortunate that after 500 years-plus of interaction with the West we [Africans] are still considered ‘disposables’
Calling the current deal that was being proposed “worse than no deal”, he called on Africans to reject it — “I would rather die with my dignity than sign a deal that will channel my people into a furnace.” Africans had to make clear demands of their leaders not to sign on. He suggested a couple of slogans: “One Africa, one degree” and “Two degrees is suicide”
O primeiro esboço oficial do novo plano global de luta contra as alterações climáticas salienta que a temperatura do planeta não deve aumentar mais do que 1,5 a 2ºC, segundo um documento a que a AFP teve acesso na conferência de Copenhaga.
O G8 e as principais economias do planeta chegaram a acordo, em Julho, na localidade italiana de L'Aquila (Itália), para um limite do aumento da temperatura a 2ºC, para lá do qual as consequências para o planeta seriam perigosas.
Mas os pequenos Estados insulares têm vindo a insistir que essa meta é perigosa. Durante a conferência de Copenhaga, estes países reforçaram os alertas, lembrando a ameaça real da subida do nível da água dos oceanos. A meta dos 1,5ºC é defendida por cem países.
Os representantes do Grupo Africano na conferência de Copenhaga declararam esta manhã em conferência de imprensa que a meta dos 2ºC não é suficiente porque, um aumento de 2ºC em todo o planeta traduz-se em mais de 3ºC no continente africano. "Precisamos de mais para garantir a sobrevivência do povo africano", declarou um dos representantes
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