Sentences with phrase «obligation on developed countries»

Willard: yes, the Paris Agreement imposes a non-legally binding obligation on developed countries.

There is thus a dual obligation on developed countries to both act and support.

Not exact matches

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At a news conference on Tuesday, Yu Qingtai, China's special representative on climate change, said China stood with poorer developing countries insisting that the financial obligation of rich nations to compensate poor ones fully for the costs attending climate change was enshrined in the original 1992 framework treaty.

signing on to reduction commitments; and China sees themselves as a developing country that has acted progressively and responsibly to address climate change when it technically has no obligation to do so under the UNFCCC.

Indeed, it underlies the UNFCCC commitment by developed countries to provide finance and technological support to developing countries, and it underlies the widespread NGO call for the developed countries to take on «international mitigation obligations» that are just as prominent, official, and legally binding as their domestic mitigation obligations.

The United States» Congress won't pass domestic legislation without key developing countries like China, which is now a major greenhouse gas emitter signing on to reduction commitments; and China sees themselves as a developing country that has acted progressively and responsibly to address climate change when it technically has no obligation to do so under the UNFCCC.

But there are big pressures on developing countries to undertake new obligations for reporting on and monitoring their emissions and their actions, and being subject to international review, far beyond what was agreed in Bali on what they would do.

To ask India to take on the same obligations as developed countries with more than 30 times higher per capita income and over ten times higher per capita emissions is simply unfair.

The delivery of climate finance for developing countries is one of the commitments and obligations of developed country governments under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and is one of the pillars of the Bali Road Map agreed during the UNFCCC Conference of Parties held here in Bali in December 2007.

This in turn explains that the Annex1 countries i.e. developed countries are endowed with a higher level of obligation on their reporting than the developing countries.

This in turn required the developed countries to report annual GHG inventory every year; prepare a biennial report — highlighting the progress made in meeting its obligations under the Convention, both, on mitigation pledges and support; and national communication every four years; and, for the developing countries to prepare a biennial update report, including GHG inventory, on planning and implementing NAMAs, and to prepare a national communication every four years.

Even though there is no legal obligation on India in this respect, the Prime Minister of India made a commitment that India's per capita emissions will at no time exceed the average of the per capita emissions of developed, industrialized countries.

«Developing countries should not be asked to make a payment every time an existing obligation becomes due on the part of developed countries,» she said.

While many developed countries condition any further action, including fulfilling their legally binding obligations to a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, on greater action by emerging economies, developing country pledges already far outweigh pledges by developed countries.

They are the ones who have failed to deliver on their legal and moral obligations in finance, who have offered laughable mitigation targets, and who expect developing countries to fulfill parallel commitments.

These words ring so hollow and dubious especially as developed countries are abandoning their mitigation obligations under the Kyoto Protocol or the ad - hoc working group on Long Term Cooperative Action (LCA) and or are offering no meaningful and ambitious emissions reductions in the elusive second committment period of Kyoto.