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   "Prelude to Copenhagen*

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   Presentation of the Chair of

        the Group of 77 (developing countries) and China

   Positions on Developing Country Commitments

   Meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group

        on Long Term Cooperative Action

   UN Climate Negotiations in Bonn Germany, June 8, 2009

   Presentation made by Bernarditas Mueller of the Philippines

     On June 8th, developing countries took the floor to offer a series of “marks” or challenges to the Chairman’s draft text.  One nation after another “marked” as objectionable major portions of the entire draft text on developing country commitments, as reflected in the bracketed text above. Speaking for the Group of 77 & China – the major bloc of developing nations – Philippines made clear that “NAMAs (nationally appropriate mitigation actions) are only those actions that are made possible by technology transfer and financial resources” from industrial countries.  This narrow construction of the Bali Action Plan basically implies that developing nations will only do what industrial nations pay them to do.

-  Gene Trisko

-  UJAE Newsletter, June 2009

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