Caribbean negotiators troubled

Caribbean and other developing countries are hoping for strong negotiations and the support of allies in the developed world to prevent their aspirations from being destroyed during the second and final week of the negotiations. The 19th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), COP19 and the 9th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP9) .  Hugh Sealy, the Barbadian vice-chair of the executive board of the UNFCCC’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) who also represents the Republic of Nauru at the talks, told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC), that the Alliance of Small-Island States (OASIS), of which the Caribbean is a member, has the support of the United States and the European Union, as they try “to bring a sense of urgency to this conference that we have to do things now; not wait until 2020”. He was referring to the efforts to get developed countries to commit to scaling up to US$100 billion annually by 2020, the amount that rich countries would contribute to mitigate against the devastating impact of climate change on the least developed nations, as manifested by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines last weekend and Hurricane Sandy in the Caribbean and the United States last year.

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