{"id":22816,"date":"2018-12-20T10:04:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T14:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=22816"},"modified":"2019-01-11T19:28:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T23:28:46","slug":"commentary-why-silence-about-the-climate-conference-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-why-silence-about-the-climate-conference-in-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: Why silence about the Climate Conference in Poland?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Sir Ronald Sanders<\/p>

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(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the United States and the Organisation of American States.  He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto.   The views expressed are his own.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A statement may have been made one or more of the Caribbean countries that attended the Conference of the Parties (COP) on the disastrous effects of Climate Change in Katowice, Poland in early December, but if any statement was made it is nigh impossible to find it despite the considerable search engines on the internet.<\/p>

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Yet, the disastrous results of the Katowice Conference should be a renewed call to arms for all Caribbean island-states whose very existence is now closer to extinction than it has ever been.<\/p>

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In the face of the continued recalcitrance of the powerful states even to admit the existence of the harmful effects of Climate Change, and their downright refusal to take the necessary action to stop it, if there is a comatose condition among Caribbean representatives, it is understandable but not forgivable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happened at Katowice in Poland, is nothing short of a death sentence for small island states.    <\/p>

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Delegates to the conference went into the room with the full knowledge that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had called, categorically, in its October 2018 report, for radical structural transformation, particularly as the world is patently failing to hold global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.   The report showed that unless the global community brings emissions under control within 12 years, there will be no prospect whatsoever of achieving that goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simply put, by the time a child born this year is 12 years old, Caribbean islands and low-lying costal areas will be confronting ravages to productive areas and habitats that could induce the flight of people from their homelands.<\/p>

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Ralph Regenvanu, foreign minister of Vanuatu, was belligerent. Noting that rebuilding and climate resilience costs are soaring from fiercer storms and rising seas, he is seeking to form a coalition of vulnerable nations prepared to sue fossil fuel companies to pay for damage linked to climate change.<\/p>

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He is making a telling point. It is not dissimilar to one made recently by Professor Avinash Persaud, an Economist and consultant to the Barbados Government.  Increasingly, small island states, which are the very least of the contributors to climate change and are its greatest victims, are being required to pay the cost of the loss and damage that are inflicted on them.  Persaud argues that \u201cIslands and flood-prone places are being asked to pay premiums to be insured against future losses and damage of a climate change caused by others. This is asking the victim to pay by instalment. If our main response to human-made climate change is to try and make it easier for the victims to pay for it, the march of climate change will press on unimpeded\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But at Katowice, rich countries prevented any movement on how to estimate financial contributions to support adaptation by vulnerable countries.  They simply don\u2019t want to pay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The poorer nations rightly want estimates of climate finance to be additional to current development aid. They also want climate finance to be viewed more as a response to the loss and damage suffered by poor countries rather than as aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is good reason for these \u201cwishes\u201d by the poor and vulnerable nations.  Without their fulfillment, existing foreign aid flows could easily be reclassified as a contribution to climate finance, leaving the actual amount of support unchanged.   This kind of behavior was obvious at the UN sponsored pledging conference for Caribbean countries devasted by 2017 hurricanes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The so-called \u201cKatowice agreement\u201d avoids the grave concerns about climate finance by not addressing them officially in the final agreement. Imagine that the one positive result of the meeting on the financing issue is that rich country negotiators agreed to \u201crevisit\u201d the issue of scaling up financial contributions in 2025.  In other words, they agreed to \u201ctalk\u201d about it yet again \u2013 fiddling while Rome burns.   But, of course, it is not their \u201cRome\u201d, and, in the minds of many of their negotiators, relocating a few million dislocated and displaced people from small islands is a cheaper option that paying compensation for the destruction of homelands and civilizations caused by climate change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The one hope in all this is that a National Climate Assessment in the United States, published, before the climate conference in Poland, concludes that the impacts of global climate change are already affecting the US, as clearly evidenced by the growing number of intense wildfire seasons, droughts, heatwaves, and floods that the country has been experiencing.   The report notes that these conditions will worsen unless urgent action is taken to curb greenhouse gas emissions.  Significantly, it states that annual average temperatures across the U.S. have risen by 1.8\u00b0F since the beginning of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The costs for the U.S. are also high and rising.  Here are some examples: Rebuilding Puerto Rico\u2019s power grid, which was destroyed by hurricanes Irma and Maria, is estimated to cost $17 billion; flooding in the Mississippi and Missouri river basins in 2011 caused an estimated $5.7 billion in damage; and the federal cost of fighting fires across the US ranged from $809 million to $2.1 billion per year between 2000 and 2016. The report says that by 2100, these costs could rise to hundreds of billions of dollars a year and could affect the U.S. economy \u201cworse than the Great Recession did\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the climate report on the U.S., there should be strong allies in the states and cities where the harmful effects of Climate Change have been felt and are not letting-up.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caribbean countries should stand-up, speak out and take a lead in mobilizing small states every where to join strong alliances into the decision-making councils and board rooms, globally in an unrelenting campaign for their collective survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only solution to climate change is to stop it.<\/p>\n

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the United States and the Organisation of American States.  He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto.   The views expressed are his own.) 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