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NGOs call for unified, vigorous ASEAN stance in climate talks

The ASEAN for a Fair, Ambitious and Binding Global Climate Deal (AFAB), a partnership between Oxfam’s East Asia GROW Campaign and Greenpeace Southeast Asia, says that ASEAN needs to help take a more active and unified stance in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) climate talks

The Jakarta Post
Jakarta
Wed, November 13, 2013

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NGOs call for unified, vigorous ASEAN stance in climate talks

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he ASEAN for a Fair, Ambitious and Binding Global Climate Deal (AFAB), a partnership between Oxfam'€™s East Asia GROW Campaign and Greenpeace Southeast Asia, says that ASEAN needs to help take a more active and unified stance in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) climate talks.

'€œASEAN leaders must push for ambitious and binding reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, before and after 2020,'€ Oxfam GROW'€™s East Asia Campaign coordinator, Norly Grace Mercado, said in a statement made available to The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.

She further said: '€œIt must intensify effort to call on developed countries to start providing resources for the Green Climate Fund'€.

The AFAB also called for a region-wide response to climate change.

Mercado called on ASEAN leaders to include and adopt regional policies that were aimed at building people'€™s resilience, especially that of the agricultural communities, to change climate patterns.

She stressed the importance of a united ASEAN in '€œpushing for a fair, ambitious, and legally binding global climate deal'€.

Atty. Zelda Soriano of Greenpeace Southeast Asia also called on ASEAN leaders to ensure a low-carbon climate resilient economic trajectory and to establish monitoring tools for a trans-boundary environmental impact assessment in the region.

She said: '€œASEAN should encourage its members to shift toward low carbon development parts through the promotion of renewable energy, as the regional bloc moves toward its goal of building a common regional economic community 2015'€.

The 19th meeting of Conference of Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC, the UN body where the world'€™s governments negotiate on how to address the climate crisis at the global level, started in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday.

ASEAN region is highly vulnerable to climate-related events and hot spots for climate change impacts.

Typhoon Yolanda (or Haiyan), which is dubbed as the most powerful storm in the world so far, hit the Philippines, on Nov.8, affecting around 2.1 million families or 9.6 million people in 51 cities and 41 provinces, most of which are agricultural areas, according to the Philippine National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), on Monday. (ebf)

 

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