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World Bank Case for a Stronger LAC Commitment on Climate Change
By Keith R | January 25, 2009
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Loading...Earlier this month the World Bank made a presentation to the Summit Implementation Review Group (SIRG) preparing the draft Declaration of Commitment to be adopted by heads of state and government at the upcoming Fifth Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on why the Declaration should include stronger commitments by Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) leaders on climate change.
Currently the draft Declaration only calls for:
- taking the necessary steps to ensure the “eventual stabilization” of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will not incur a risk of serious changes in the Earth’s climate and weather systems.
- supporting work towards a global agreement being reached at Copenhagen later this year;
- directing Ministers and all other authorities responsible for sustainable development, in conjunction with the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), working under the auspices of the Organization for American States (OAS), to undertake a comprehensive review of the potential impacts of climate change for all the nations of the Americas by 2011, and to formulate national Plans of Action for the management and mitigation of these impacts, with special attention to the needs of people likely to be displaced or to lose their livelihoods. Each of these national reviews are to be used to inform the development of a Regional Strategy for the Management of Climate Change Impacts, to be formulated jointly by the World Bank and the IDB by 2013.
I don’t have the time at the moment to analyze the merits of their case for what such a commitment should include, but I think that the presentation does a very good job at arguing why LAC leaders need to ratchet up the priority they give to this issue and how LAC, if it chose to, could very well play a leadership role in forging the post-Kyoto Protocol global agreement on climate change slated to be agreed later this year. See if you agree. I’ve posted the Bank powerpoint presentation below.
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