The African team at the ongoing climate
talks, comprising key continental negotiators and civil society organizations,
has hinted at the possibility of staging a walkout, in the face of low
commitment to implementation on the part of polluter-countries.
This came to fore at a strategic
meeting between a team of African negotiators, Government delegates and the
civil society organizations, led by the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance
(PACJA).
In the build-up to 2015, government
delegates from Africa who craved anonymity due to the sensitivity of the
matter, decried the non-committal posture of the developed nations on key
issues as they relate to loss and damage, means of implementation and Green
Climate Fund (GCF).
Expressing fears on a possible
fruitless exercise in Warsaw, Mithika Mwenda of the PACJA called on the African
team to explore every viable means of accentuating the African position at the
conference.
He is not ruling out the possibility of
a walk-out as “Äfricans cannot afford to go back home with peanuts after suffering
under Warsaw’s extremely cold weather.”
African civil society leaders present
also hinted at a possible backlash of disenchantment and discontinuity with the
entire UNFCCC process if concrete implementation terms and financing models are
not arrived at this conference.
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