EU asked to press for bunker fuels to be pushed up the European and UN agenda
– Tourism Watch
Clean Shipping Coalition, Danish Ecological Council, IMERS, Oxfam, Sierra Club,
WWF
Tamás Fellegi, Minister for National Development
Budapest, Hungary.
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international bunker fuels (point 1b iv of the LCA track) being on the agenda.
This has arisen because
the Cancun discussion on bunker fuels proved yet again to be inconclusive. Environmental
NGOs
urge the EU to press for this item be reinstated on the agenda and engage with
like-minded Parties
to the UNFCCC, particularly developing country parties, to ensure that this happens.
and reducing bunker
emissions to Annex 1 countries working through the IMO and ICAO. In the absence
of any credible
progress in the intervening years, considerable effort was expended in the run-up
to Copenhagen to
break the political impasse over calls for global action global and developing
country concerns that
the UNFCCC principle of common but differentiated responsibilities be respected.
This impasse
continues to prevent progress at IMO and ICAO despite the Secretary General’s
High Level Group on
Climate Change Financing proposing that any bunker mechanisms should be designed
so as to
ensure no net incidence or burden on developing countries. This concept will
be discussed at the
IMO intersessional Working Group on GHG MBMs later this month.
expressed by the
EU on many occasions that the steady rise in bunker emissions must finally be
addressed. Debate in
the UNFCCC can serve as a forum to unlock intractable issues and provide guidance
to the work of
IMO and ICAO. Such debates in the preparatory meetings leading to Copenhagen
certainly had an
impact and in the case of the IMO led to an acceleration of effort.
net incidence
and cognisant of the role of IMO and ICAO as well as of the urgent need to identify
new sources of
climate finance, has a good chance of making progress.
with one voice in
support of solutions such as the rebate mechanism as a way to avoid net incidence
on developing
countries. This mechanism is a way to reconcile the principles of the different
conventions while
creating a mechanism that can contribute to meeting commitments to deliver financing
for
developing countries.
fuels on the
UNFCCC agenda at the Bangkok session and ask the EU Presidency and the Commission
to pursue
urgent efforts to secure international support for this position with like-minded
countries. In this
regard, we have written in similar terms to Commissioner Hedegaard.
President Director
Clean Shipping Coalition (CSC) WWF European Policy Office
Cc Vice President Catherine Ashton
Clean Shipping Coalition, Danish Ecological Council, IMERS, Oxfam, Sierra Club,
WWF