LAND USE, LAND USE CHANGE AND FORESTRY
PACNEWS AUG 5, 2000
APIA (Pacnews): Member States of the Alliance of Small Island
States (AOSIS) attending a workshop on Climate Change in Apia,
Samoa have noted the contribution of Land Use, Land Use Change
and Forestry (LULUCF) activities in relation to the global carbon
cycle.
Participants also noted the relevant contribution of fossil fuel
burning in residual greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
At the conclusion of the workshop, participants agreed that the
concern of AOSIS member States and their vulnerability to the
impacts of climate change must be given primary consideration in
any decision associated with LULUCF.
Participants also discussed the issue of leakage and
non-permanence of LULUCF project based activities and noted with
some concern that some projects being proposed under the Clean
Development Mechanism (CDM) may not properly address these issues
or contribute to sustainable development.
The workshop noted the implications of current discussions
associated with LULUCF as they related to the Kyoto Protocol,
which sets legally binding targets for countries to reduce
greenhouse gas emission to avert the threat of climate change.
In general discussions on compliance, participants highlighted
the need for AOSIS member countries to be represented on Expert
Review Teams and on any new bodies established under the
compliance regime.
They also stressed the need for developing country Parties to be
accorded the right to trigger the compliance procedure.
Participants also called for an open, transparent and manageable
compliance regime that will assure AOSIS member States that the
Annex 1 Parties, made up of developed countries are carrying out
their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol.
The workshop also discussed a number of proposals from developed
countries for a "compliance fund" and for a "compliance action
plan".
Participants recommended that these proposals be thoroughly
studied to ensure that they were used as a means to enable Annex
1 Parties to escape or indefinitely avoid their commitments to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
AOSIS member states from the Caribbean, Africa, Indian Ocean and
the Pacific attended the workshop.(ends)
SOURCE: Pacnews
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