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Global Stocktake on ‘Integrated and holistic approaches’ draws sharp reactions from China and India

Bonn, 12 June (Meena Raman) – At the roundtable on “Integrated and holistic approaches’ held on10 June under the Global Stocktake (GST) session at the climate talks in Bonn, Germany, China and India provided sharp reflections on the theme, elaborating on the need to underscore and reflect equity and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities between developed and developing countries (CBDR)…

China said that both the historic and current context should be presented in the technical assessment of GST in relation to the consideration of equity. “Equity and CBDR need to be operationalized in our way forward towards achieving the Paris Agreement (PA), and this should be a key message out of this roundtable”, adding that “equity and CBDR are deeply rooted in the self-evident truth, that all countries enjoy the equal right to development, and every one of its people across countries enjoys equal rights to a decent life.”…

India took issue with some of the “emerging messages” from the reflections section of the summary report prepared by the co-facilitators from the Technical Dialogue 1.2 under the roundtable 4 theme of ‘Integrated and holistic approaches’… [for example]

The term overshoot is a term that comes from the literature on scenarios that has deep flaws in terms of equitable energy access and supply, income growth and consumption levels across the world. In much of these scenarios, huge levels of negative emissions, especially from afforestation and diversion from other land uses, are assumed, particularly in the developing world, even to meet the target of 1.5 °C. The term overshoot implies a situation where having crossed the 1.5 degrees C target, it is hoped that there are technologies that will bring down the peak warming level, by huge absorption of CO2 gases and/or reductions of non-CO2 gases from the atmosphere. These are unproven at best, and where proven are traditional methods such as afforestation that call for deployment at huge scale. While all technological research for dealing with the climate challenge is necessary, it is not clear to us why we should include this as our considered GST outcome, especially given its highly contestable assumptions. The plain reality is simply the likelihood of breaching the 1.5°C threshold sooner than later.”