Civil Society Group React to Bonn Climate Conference
Editor
June 15, 2023
The 10-day ‘agenda fight’ at the UNFCCC Bonn climate talks brought to the fore the glaring lack of finance that is essential for climate progress. Decades of mistrust on the delivery of finance, for instance with the $100bn still unfulfilled, forced open a conversation on the need for actual money on the table for poorer countries to implement their climate action plans to phase out fossil fuels and make a just and equitable transition towards renewables and address adaptation and loss and damage.
To keep the world on track to limit warming below 1.5ºC we need rapid far-reaching greenhouse gas emission cuts and the finance to do this in a just and sustainable way. COP28 in Dubai must be the moment to signal the end of the fossil fuel era and ensure countries commit to a plan for fair, fast and funded phase out from fossil fuels alongside commitments to scale up renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Nithi Nesadurai, Director & Regional Coordinator, Climate Action Network Southeast Asia stated that
Once again, climate negotiators representing governments worldwide have not reflected the urgency needed at these SB58 meetings to come up with outcomes which can be tabled for adoption at COP28. This will slow down the adoption of decisions at COP28 to phase out fossil fuels with just transition based on equity and financial support. The leading cause of division and loss of trust was the intransigence of developed countries to meet their commitments to provide finance. Developed countries are urged to meet their finance commitments and resolve sticky issues based on equity and fair shares in the run up to COP28 so that decisions can be taken to seriously address the current climate emergency. This includes phasing out fossil fuels.
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