A presentation outlining the key outcomes from COP17 in Durban

1. Beyond Durban
Building bridges to an effective, efficient and equitable climate regime
EDWARD CAMERON | Director, International Climate Initiative

2. Building Bridges
• Architecture
• Engineering
• Equity

3. The Architecture post-Durban
• The Durban Platform on
Enhanced Action
• Kyoto Protocol
• Implementation of Cancun
• "What got us here won't get
us there"

4. The Engineering post-Durban
• Green Climate Fund
• MRV / Accounting issues
• Adaptation and Technology
• Periodic Review

5. Assessing the Durban Outcomes
• Renewed commitment to multilateralism / a rules- • LCA track needs work
based system
• The Lack of Ambition remains a crucial challenge
• Pathway to a comprehensive and inclusive effort and the absence of Urgency continues to be a
worry
• Acknowledgement of current failings / commitment
to ambitious goal • Pledge and review and lower levels of ambition
remain in the short-term
• A new alliance / a new voice
• Financial architecture is not the same as financial
resources
• An opportunity to avoid collision course between
historical responsibility and environmental integrity

6. The Players and their strategies
The European alliance with LDC
and AOSIS
BASIC and G77: The Equity
question
The United States:
Role and long-term
vision?
The South African Presidency and
the destination to do a deal

7. Equity and the Durban Outcomes
• The omission of Equity and
CBDR in Durban
• The backlash
• A window of opportunity to
safeguard equity and
environmental integrity

8. Legal Form
• Protocol
• Another Legal Instrument
• Outcome with Legal Force

9. The challenges from Durban
The Emissions Gap: Much needs to be done to
generate increased urgency and ambition in the
regime. The current emissions pathways put 2C ll
beyond reach. This is the most immediate challenge
of the climate regime.
Equity and CBDR have not been resolved: With one
group of countries claiming that the Firewall has been
breached and another using every statement to
reaffirm the commitment to CBDR it is clear that the
equity debate is putting major players on a collision
course.
The ambitious majority must not become a casualty
of these divisions: Much of the success in Durban can
be traced to the alliance built between the EU, LDCs
and AOSIS. This alliance needs to be sustained to push
for progressive outcomes.

10. Moving Forward beyond Durban
Correcting the Flaws in the LCA text
Establishing the ADP
Durban Outcomes with the
Second Commitment
Period, Implementation of
Cancun and establishment of
"Correcting the flaws in the LCA text
the Durban Platform
Working to ensure sustained ambition

11. Thank you
EDWARD CAMERON | Director, International Climate Initiative