Subsequently, a new draft text was released around 3 AM on Saturday. The new five-page text is a watered down version of the earlier seven page one that gave various options to countries to decide on the fate of the final outcome of the Lima.
READ ALSO: The heat is on as Lima climate talks reach final round The result of the new draft will be known only on late Saturday as the secretariat here announced an official postponement until 10 am (Peru time) of the closing session of a working group tasked with finalizing the document.
The postponement was a result of continued standoff between rich and poor nations.
Interestingly, the new draft urged the developed countries "to provide and mobilize support to developing country 'Parties' for ambitious mitigation and adaptation actions, especially to 'Parties' that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change; and invites other 'Parties' willing to do so to complement such support".
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The plea reflects the chair's strong wish to come out with something concrete to show as a positive outcome of Lima. But, it will happen only after both the rich and poor nations compromise with their respective stated positions. Obviously, the developed countries have to go an extra mile and give due weightage to all elements including adaptation, finance, technology transfer and capacity building.
"We are almost there. We need to make just a final effort," Peruvian environment minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, who is the president of the COP 20, pleaded with negotiators on Friday.
He said, "We need to take political decisions."
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The deadlock continued because rich nations want developing nations like India and China to cut their emissions. The developing nations, on the other hand, insist that the developed ones must bear a bigger burden for carbon cuts as they had emitted a lot more in the past due to early industrialization in those parts of the world.
Reacting over the contents of the new draft, Chandra Bhushan, deputy director general of the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), said, "Though the co-chairs claimed that all groups had been consulted while preparing the draft, it turned out that most developing countries were not".
Bhushan, attending the climate conference as an observer, said, "The COP 20 will be remembered for bad process, non-transparency & non-inclusiveness. It has further widened the trust gap between the developed and the developing countries".
The new version of the draft document was released early Saturday, with the intention of holding a meeting straight away for it to be passed. It will then be submitted to the plenary for adoption as outcome of the Lima talks, deciding what the countries should pledge under their 'nationally determined' goals to mitigate (emission cut) -- called INDCs -- and adapt to the challenge of climate change.
Pulgar admitted that the text was "not perfect", but said it reflected common ground.
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Observers here believe that a compromise by both rich and poor nations will, at the most, bring out a weak commitment that may not ultimately help the world to achieve its goal of keeping temperature rise below 2 degree celsius this century.
The new draft merely "invites" all parties to "consider communicating their undertakings in adaptation planning or consider including an adaptation component." It doesn't even have a provision on 'loss and damage' --- the ways and means to help countries who have already faced the consequences of global warming like impact of sea-level ride and drought.
As a compromise on the contentious issue of 'progress review' (ex-ante review) of the commitments made by the nations, the new draft mentions a "non-intrusive and facilitative dialogue, respectful of national sovereignty".
Bhushan, however, said, "The ex-ante review of INDCs has been reduced to facilitative dialogue and that too has been made optional. This means that big polluters can avoid being subjected to review of their efforts now".
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