The Deal The World Needs: Parliamentary Leadership for Copenhagen and Beyond

European Parliament, Brussels, April 30th 2009

GLOBE Europe Focal Points Strategy Conference

CONCLUSIONS

Preamble

GLOBE is a worldwide community of parliamentarians interested in co-operating across country and

party lines to further the wider environmental agenda of climate and biodiversity protection and
sustainable development. GLOBE provides an independent forum where parliamentarians who are
committed to developing ambitious policies to enhance environmental protection and sustainable
development can talk and work together, in dialogue with key policy stakeholders.
The National Focal Points of the GLOBE network in Europe met on 30th April 2009 and agreed on the
following priorities for GLOBE Europe.
We are convinced of the importance of enhancing the involvement of national parliamentarians in the
formulation of EU policies, as proposed by the Lisbon Treaty, and this is why, paying regard to the
ground-breaking work of the European Parliament on the issue of climate change of the last few years1,
the GLOBE International consensus paper Combating Climate Change: An International Cooperation
Framework Beyond 2012 by legislators from the G8 and +5 countries agreed at the GLOBE
International Tokyo Legislators Forum on 29 June 2008, the Recommendations of the GLOBE
International Working Group on Biofuels to the GLOBE International Tokyo forum in June 2008, and
the 2008 Communiqué of the Road to Copenhagen Conference of November 2008, we agree to
formulate common policy recommendations to our parliamentary colleagues and Ministers and to take a
number of joint actions ourselves.
National parliaments should call on the EU and the Member States to maintain a leading role in
international climate policy by putting forward concrete proposals for the EU's contribution for funding
climate protection efforts in developing countries at the European Council next June, and speak with
one voice in order to maintain its credibility as a climate protection leader; to ensure that climate justice
is recognized as a guiding principle for the upcoming negotiations and any planning for financing future
climate policy; and to actively pursue a Copenhagen agreement which takes into account the most
recent scientific reports on climate change, commits to stabilisation levels and temperature targets that
provide strong probability of avoiding dangerous climate change, and allows for regular reviews to
ensure that targets are in line with the latest science.

GLOBE Europe regrets that, after more than a year of discussion and contrary to their explicit
commitment in Poznań, the EU Member States failed to reach an agreement on the EU's contribution
for funding climate protection efforts in developing countries in the Spring Council last in March. This
1. Particularly: the EP report on the Commission Communication Building a Global Climate Change Alliance between the
European Union and poor developing countries most vulnerable to climate change adopted on 21 October 2008; the EP
report 2050: The future begins today - Recommendations for the EU's future integrated policy on climate change of the
Temporary Committee on Climate Change, adopted on 4 February 2009; and the Resolution of the European Parliament on
the Commission Communication Towards a comprehensive climate change agreement in Copenhagen adopted on 11
March 2009.

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failure represents a severe blow to Europe's leadership ahead of the COP-15 and jeopardises the chance
of a satisfactory outcome in Copenhagen.

On the other hand, in the current financial and economic crisis, the EU's objective of fighting climate
change can be combined with major new economic opportunities to develop new clean technologies, to
create jobs and to enhance energy security. An agreement in Copenhagen could provide the necessary
stimulus for such a 'New Deal' boosting economic growth, promoting green technologies and creating
new jobs in the EU and in developing countries.

1. Negotiation of a post-Kyoto UN climate agreement

1.1 EU Mandate: The European Council must aim for an international agreement with industrialised
countries that seeks to achieve collective emissions reductions at a level which ensures reaching the 2
degree objective of the European Union.

1.2. Funding for mitigation and adaptation in developing countries & capacity building

- GLOBE Europe calls on the European Council to make tangible commitments on financing, when
adopting a negotiating mandate for the Copenhagen conference. We welcome the concrete proposals put
forward by the European Parliament in this regard.

- GLOBE Europe believes that climate justice must be a guiding principle for the upcoming
negotiations in Copenhagen and for any planning for financing future climate policy; we therefore
welcome the European Parliament’s proposal to establish an EU Global Climate Change Alliance
whose purpose would be to establish a framework through which the EU will provide substantial
resources to address climate change in developing countries and will work jointly with them to integrate
climate change into poverty reduction strategies.

- A majority of such funding must be new and additional to Official Development Assistance (ODA).

- Around 25% of the auctioning revenues generated by the EU ETS should be dedicated to finance
mitigation and adaptation to global warming in the developing countries which decide to ratify the
international agreement. Part of this funding should be dedicated to capacity building in recipient
countries, to maximise the effectiveness of the support provided.

- A large part of the collective contribution towards the mitigation efforts and adaptation needs of
developing countries must be dedicated to projects striving to halt deforestation and forest degradation,
and to reforestation and afforestation projects.

- The industrialised countries must develop a comprehensive action plan on the future financing of
climate policy, covering all relevant areas and sources of financing including the CDM; the European
Council should mandate the Commission to urgently develop such an EU action plan in view of the
Copenhagen negotiations.

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2. Beyond the EU Climate and Renewable Energy (CARE) Package: energy efficiency, the
Supergrid, e-mobility

The EU has committed itself to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to 30% below 1990 levels by 2020
provided that, as part of a global and comprehensive post-2012 agreement, other developed countries
commit to comparable reductions and advanced developing countries also contribute adequately to the
global effort according to their respective capabilities. Therefore it is indispensable that policies capable
of delivering this objective are set in place.

2.1. Although the CARE Package represents the first and important step on the EU's pathway to a low
carbon and sustainable economy, it is essential that the weaker aspects of the agreement are
strengthened in its implementation and complemented by bold parallel efforts.

2.2. In the current financial and economic crisis, the EU's objective of fighting climate change can be
combined with major new economic opportunities to develop new clean technologies, to create jobs and
to enhance energy security. GLOBE Europe is convinced that three areas in particular boast the
potential to achieve indispensable additional emission reductions in Europe: improving energy
efficiency, building a super-grid to boost the development of the renewables sector and the increase of
the clean energy share in the European markets, whose targets must absolutely be achieved, and
developing sustainable electro-mobility.

2.3. Over the coming months GLOBE Europe will examine, on the basis of this discussion paper, how
best to achieve each of these objectives and how national legislatures can best contribute to this policy
debate at the European level. We will seek to raise awareness among and involve our parliamentary
colleagues in this work, as well as our colleagues in government, and promote relevant legislation.

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