Bolivia in AWA LCA

Elizabeth May

Bolivia in Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWA LCA).

Bolivia:  We want to make it clear that we do not find this text reflects our concerns. The document was not prepared at the request of the COP. Bolivia never asked the document to be prepared. That's our procedural objection.

On the shared vision, we have clearly said that 2 degrees is unacceptable.  The science tells us 2 degrees is too high. According to the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2 degree C only gives a 50% probability of not having a runaway Global warming impact.   The red line for us in climate change is that none of the states represented here disappear. And therefore Bolivia does not support this document and does not accept the 2 degrees C level because it is completely unacceptable. Chapter 3 of the text, here there are reference to a document which doesn't yet exist.

As a state party, we want to know what objectives have adopted here. A listing agreed upon that is to be drawn up later. Over what period of time? Over what base year?

We do not support this document. We are not here to support blank cheque documents for industrialized countries fill in what they want. If the numbers come from the Copenhagen Accord, we are adopting 4 degrees. This matter must be clarified.  We must be able to say to the press that we are reducing by how much?
And there must be a clear relationship between what is referenced and the text.
And the third objection, is the funding mechanism, jointly $100 billion will be mobilized by 2020. It doesn't state that it will be the developed countries that will provide this funding. Or is it $100 billion from market mechanisms and maybe private sector?

And the idea that the World Bank is referenced as the trustee for the Green Climate Fund. (The World Bank is actually referenced as an "interim trustee").

On to technology development and transfer, it doesn't even refer to the problems of intellectual property.

(1:20 AM) ..... Bolivia still speaking.....