23) No double counting of finance: Money used to offset industrialized country emissions cannot be double counted as fulfilling industrialized countries’ obligation to provide MRV support for the deviation from BAU in developing countries.

14) Quote: What has the essence been about today ? (Africa’s statement around the Kyoto Protocol talks): That action creates results. If you speak up you get heard. If you are silent nothing happens.

15) Quote: “What just happened? Well Africa put a peck in the ground. Firmly”

16) Quote: “The ambitions of the developed (Annex 1) countries are unacceptable”

17) Quote: “There is no excuse for keeping on delaying talking about the numbers for emission cuts by what year and for offsets”

18) Quote: “We must find real solutions”

19) Quote: “It is with excitement that we see that there is a will to talk about real issues for vulnerable issues”

20) Quote: “The tone in the talks has become harsher”.

21) Quote: “We hope for an outcome which meets the needs of all of us who needs relief”.

12) “Additionality”, that is the notion that climate change impacts are an additional burden* on the worlds’ poorest and most vulnerable individuals and communities.

*burdens already include development concerns such as health, poverty, nutrition, disease”.

Climate change will antagonise development burdens as well as create new problems. Adaptation finance therefore needs to be additional to the Aid money that has already been pledged to assist development.

1) An agreement which is Legally v. Politically Binding
2) Ensuring survival of countries, cultures and ecosystems
3) Delevering a shared and differentiated response
4) Enabling a Low carbon eonomy
5) Keeping overall warming below 2 degree danger threshold
6) Tropical forest destruction
7) A framework for immediate adaptation action
Innovative sources of financing
9) A mechanisme to strengthen technology cooperation
10) Institutional setup under UNFCCC
11) Transparant and comparable standards