Major disagreements remain on the draft text of Paris Outcome

The new "shorter" draft text of Paris climate meet reflects major differences among nations on many elements including finance and technology transfer, a Indian green body said today as it warned that developed countries are trying to shift the burden on developing nations.
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said that the text is weak on how countries, especially developed countries, are going to enhance their ambition to cut emissions before 2020 and after that.
"The draft Paris Outcome text that was released today reflects major disagreements between countries on many elements including finance and technology transfer.
"The draft text is also weak on how countries, especially developed countries, are going to enhance their ambition to cut emissions before 2020 and after," it said after analysing the text.

Elaborating about the temperature goal, CSE said that there are disagreements on temperature goal as currently it comprises three options - below 2 degree C, well below 2 degree C and below 1.5 degree C.
"The current text essentially promotes a bottom up regime characterised by the voluntary country driven climate actions, further weakening the historical responsibilities of the developed countries. If nothing changes, we are looking at a weak deal at Paris," said Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).

As far as mitigation is concerned, the body said that it has been streamlined than the previous version which meant that countries have more agreements than disagreements.

However, mitigation actions have been significantly diluted.
"Ex-ante implying prior review of the emissions reduction efforts of countries before their final communication has been removed. This implies no review of ambition of countries on what they should be doing in accordance with equity and Common but Differentiated Responsibility (CBDR).
"Equitable distribution of a global carbon budget based on historical responsibilities and climate justice is removed from the current text. This is now mentioned in the draft decision text accompanying the Agreement text. Section on international transport emissions including aviation has been removed in the new draft," CSE said.