Comments on: Copenhagen Diary #5 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/12/19/copenhagen-diary-5/ hopping along the corridors of power Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:16:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: alistair http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/12/19/copenhagen-diary-5/#comment-99666 alistair Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:45:06 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/?p=8728#comment-99666 Indeed Jeanette, this is one illustration of why Copenhagen was pretty much doomed from the start... So many issues to solve : environmental degradation, economic neo-colonialism, corruption... And they can't all be addressed in a climate treaty. Separation of concerns is the only way to make progress, especially in a multi-lateral context. That's why I think that market-based mechanisms (i.e. carbon trading and incentives for clean development) need to be the backbone of the financing of poorer nations under international agreements. We all know about the disastrous decades of developmental aid that goes through the hands of third-world governments. The Kyoto Clean Development Mechanism is controversial in its environmental details, but at least it is "clean" with respect to corruption, transparent and verifiable. And effective in reducing GHGs. Which is the objective, after all. Tackling corruption in the third world is necessary, but it's another agenda.

Indeed Jeanette, this is one illustration of why Copenhagen was pretty much doomed from the start… So many issues to solve : environmental degradation, economic neo-colonialism, corruption…

And they can’t all be addressed in a climate treaty. Separation of concerns is the only way to make progress, especially in a multi-lateral context.

That’s why I think that market-based mechanisms (i.e. carbon trading and incentives for clean development) need to be the backbone of the financing of poorer nations under international agreements. We all know about the disastrous decades of developmental aid that goes through the hands of third-world governments.

The Kyoto Clean Development Mechanism is controversial in its environmental details, but at least it is “clean” with respect to corruption, transparent and verifiable. And effective in reducing GHGs. Which is the objective, after all.

Tackling corruption in the third world is necessary, but it’s another agenda.

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