US Pimping Voluntary Climate Plan In Warsaw; Compensation For Damages "Isn't A Productive Avenue"
Tout President Obama's Climate Action Plan. Ask for support to prevent countries from "backsliding" on a global 2015 agreement that binds all major emitters. And say that compensation for climate damage "isn't a productive avenue" for the United Nations to travel.
Those are some of the U.S. delegations's suggested talking points for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change's 19th annual conference in Warsaw, Poland, this week and next, according to a State Department memo obtained by ClimateWire.
"With discussions on the post-2020 framework really beginning in earnest over the last 12 months, Warsaw represents an important milestone toward 2015. This year has seen a constructive discussion on the substances of the agreement which is a welcome development," the five-page briefing paper notes.
Diplomats from around 140 countries are gathering in the Polish capital to hammer out the broad outlines of that 2015 deal, which the United States hopes to shape as a voluntary pact by which nations declare what kind of emissions-cutting contribution they are able to make, and those cuts are monitored and verified under international standards.
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