The European Union prefers “no deal to a bad deal” in climate talks at the United Nations climate conference (COP27), European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans said on Saturday.
“We are concerned about some of the things that we have seen and heard in the last 12 hours,” Frans Timmermans told reporters.
Frans Timmermans stressed that the aim of the Europeans was to keep the 1.5ºC warming limit “alive”, the most ambitious objective of the Paris agreement.
“Let’s be clear. The EU partners are here to get a good result. We’d rather have no deal than have a bad deal,” said the vice president of the European Commission.
Associação Zero speaks of “regression” in relation to the goals established at COP26
It is with apprehension that the environmental association Zero looks at the lack of understanding at COP27. Zero understands, even so, the European position in relation to the proposal of the Egyptian presidency. A proposal that Brussels believes calls into question the limit of 1.5ºC of global warming. The president of Zero, Francisco Ferreira, tells the TSF that in the last hours there has been a “setback” in relation to goals established in the past.
“The big problem is that overnight it became clear that a set of aspects that the EU considers central and with which we agree, there is a language that continues to reinforce the need to try to keep the temperature from rising more than 1 5ºC in relation to the pre-industrial era and that this translates into more ambitious contributions from the countries and the end of fossil fuels, these aspects are vital”, says Francisco Ferreira in statements to TSFstressing that “everything indicates that several documents and conclusions are a setback in relation to what was on the table and was decided last year at COP26”, in Glasgow.
One of the points of disagreement refers to access to the loss and damages fund. Francisco Ferreira wants Brussels to go further: “The EU has to negotiate and find solutions, specifically with regard to loss and damage and the constitution of the fund. You have to clarify and find a language that agrees to support and integrate more countries. “
Zero’s president gives the example of Pakistan which, “as it is not a less developed country, cannot be integrated into this fund to support environmental catastrophes that are magnified by climate change.”
The United Nations climate conference (COP27), with negotiations stalled on issues such as financing for poor countries, has been extended until this Saturday, when it should have officially ended on Friday night.
* News updated at 11:17 am
Source: TSF
