Japan
to unveil 10 billion dollars in climate aid
A
pledge of funds from rich countries will be a key ingredient
for any climate change deal in Copenhagen. Japan is ready
to make an offer in Copenhagen.
Rie Jerichow - 15/12/2009 - When Japanese Prime Minister
Yukio Hatoyama lands in Copenhagen for the UN climate summit,
he will bring along an offer of 10 billion US dollars to
help developing countries fight global warming, the Tokyo
Shimbun daily reports, according to Reuters.
The
pledge of 10 billion dollars over three years, including
steps to protect biodiversity, is more than previously announced.
According
to Reuters, Environment Minister Sakihito Ozawa last week
declined to say how much Japan - the world's fifth largest
emitter of greenhouse gases - would contribute, but said
that the government wanted to pay more than a previously
announced 9.2 billion dollars over three years.
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US
long-term climate aid unlikely to be disclosed
The
EU and Japan may not sign on to an agreement on climate
aid funding that combines short-term and long-term aid numbers
without the US being clear it can do its share, sources
say.
Rie Jerichow - 15/12/2009 - The US is unlikely to improve
its reduction target at the ongoing UN climate summit in
Copenhagen. Nor will the US disclose the pledge it is willing
to give poorer countries to help cope with global warming
beyond 2012, an official close to the talks says according
to Bloomberg.
While
negotiators are well on their way to a short-term finance
package, the long–term package causes problems.
"The
long-term package is the one they are having trouble with
and the one that's going to be left to the final day for
the heads of state," says Alden Meyer, director of
policy at the US-based Union of Concerned Scientists.
However,
the US may sign on to an agreement that includes a combined
long-term financial goal for industrialized countries to
pay to the developing world, Bloomberg reports.
"The
problem is, I don't think the European Union and Japan will
agree on a combined number that assumes the US is doing
its share without the US being clear it can do its share,"
says said Alden Meyer, director of policy at the US-based
Union of Concerned Scientists.
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