CoolPass: U.N. to begin working on climate pacts from March.

March 3, 2011 - PRLog -- CoolPass sources report that the head of the U.N. climate change secretariat, Christiana Figueres has announced that the Green Climate Fund as well as the work agenda for this year’s U.N. climate talks to be held in Durban, South Africa, will be discussed at a ministerial meeting to be held in Mexico next month.

There has been growing concern over the future of the Kyoto protocol, the world’s first legally binding pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions, with Japan, Russia and Canada saying that they will not extend emission cuts.

While most governments including developing countries support an extension, these three nations want all top emitters including China, the U.S. and India to agree to a new treaty beyond 2012, when Kyoto is due to expire, before they agree to an extension.

Figueres, presently visiting Japan for an informal meeting of climate envoys from around 30 nations, discounted fears that the main U.N. climate forum of all countries in Bangkok in April will be sidetracked by disagreements over the Kyoto extension, CoolPass was told.

Kyoto is an ongoing issue and governments will have to address the situation and make “some decision” by the year-end climate summit in South Africa she said.

"There are many ideas that have been considered to find a middle of the way path forward ... They have to come to some decision in Durban," Figueres told CoolPass sources recently.

She went on to downplay fears that a further increase in fuel prices may undermine global economic recovery and provide an excuse or stumbling block for governments to avoid immediate initiatives on cutting emissions.

"The fact that we have high oil prices is not for the first time in history. So it's not such a historical issue that would affect the climate talks this year."

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