Nusa Dua (Antara Bali) - The next climate change conference in Mexico should focus on rebuilding trust and implementation of existing agreements, according to Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer.
The greatest challenge facing all countries towards Mexico was to rebuild trust, said the Indonesian foreign affairs minister at a press conference after concluding an informal ministerial level meeting on climate change here Friday.
Many participants recognized there was lack of confidence and trust after the Copenhagen climate conference last year, Minister Marty Natalegawa, who chaired the informal meeting, said.
In order to rebuild trust and regain political momentum to restart the negotiations, ministers and the heads of delegations from around 100 countries attending the informal meeting, emphasized that the process of negotiation towards Mexico must be open, transparent and inclusive so that every country's voice could be heard, he said.
Minister Natalegawa said Indonesia did not want to blow up the trust deficit issue and believed that dialogs on climate change must involve all parties, including those having different opinions.
All parties should meet more often and Indonesia was ready to facilitate the meetings, the minister said.
Negotiations must be carried out under the Copenhagen Accord and two ad-hoc working groups, namely the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA), he said."It's also crystal clear, that there is an urgent need to make good programs on climate change issues," the minister said.
In a separate press conference, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer also emphasized the importance of transparent and inclusive processes towards Mexico climate change conference, in order to regain confidence.
Another important aspect towards Mexico was how to put real implementation architectures on issues such as transfer of technology, mitigation, adaptation, and financing, de Boer said.
Countries such as Japan, the US and Europe had agreed that financing could be channeled through existing institutions such as Adaptation Funds under Kyoto Protocol, World Bank, ADB (Asian Development Bank), or bilateral donor agreements, in order to avoid a lot of time waste and bureaucracy, he said.
He said short-term financing worth US$30 billion should be mobilized immediately to help poorer countries ease carbon emissions and shore up defenses against climate change.
Mexico will host the 16th Conference of the Parties to UNFCCC (COP 16) and Sixth Session of the Conference of the Parties Serving as Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP-MOP 6) in Cancun, from November 29-December 10, 2010.
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is holding the 11th Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum, from Feb. 24-26, 2010. Around 1,000 participants from 130 countries are attending the meeting. (*)
