Statement by Bolivia regarding the Share Vision for Climate Change
(Pablo Solon) A shared vision for long-term cooperative action is not simply about defining the limit on temperature increases.
A Shared Vision must incorporate a comprehensive and balanced set of goals, in relation to finance, transfer of technology, adaptation, sharing of atmospheric space, climate debt, forced climate migrants and reestablishing of harmony with Mother Earth.
In order to give back to future generations a world as we have received it, our target should be to stabilize temperature increases to 1 Celsius and atmospheric concentrations of gases at 300 ppm, as close as possible to preindustrial era.
To move in that direction developed countries should reduce their emissions domestically, and without the use of market mechanisms. In the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol the aggregate target must be 50% reductions on 1990 levels by 2017.
A Shared Vision should include the equitable allocation of atmospheric space between developed countries and developing countries taking into account an emissions budget for the period from 1750 to 2050.
It should also include provisions for the transfer of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries including the exclusion of patents on climate related technologies to favour developing country Parties;
A Shared Vision should clearly underline the historical responsibility of developed countries and how they must recognize their climate debt in relation to the decolonization of the atmospheric space and in response to climate-forced migrants.
A Shared Vision should include:
quantified changes to the unsustainable patterns of consumption and production by developed countries.
full and effective implementation of the rights of indigenous peoples.
promote the recognition and defense of Mother Earth Rights.
A Shared Vision should include stronger provisions for a compliance mechanism because most developed countries have not fullfiled their obligations in relation to the implementation of the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol. In this way we should promote the discussion of the establishment of an International Court of Climate and Environmental Justice.
A Shared Vision should promote mechanisms for democratic participation, including the possibility of a world plebiscite or referendum on critical climate change issues that involves all the peoples of the world.
