Got the LCA?

Dec 15th, 2009 6:30 PM UTC
By A.M.

On Friday the clamor around Copenhagen was boiled down to seven pages. The LCA text – Long Term Cooperative Action under the Convention – was released by the Chair. This is the base text from which further negotiations will take place. You can read it here. When an item is bracketed in the text, it means that a decision has not yet been made on that particular issue, needs more work, and may need to be elevated to leaders.

The LCA text is not without controversy, and many have their concerns, but it does provide a promising base framework for adaptation and mitigation for the world’s poorest people. Absent from the text is the scale of financing – countries have still not put their cards on the table. Importantly though, it puts forward that financing to developing countries must be “new and additional.” But there needs to be even more clarity, that this is “new and additional” from already promised levels. This is exactly the message of ONE’s campaign to world leaders.

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