US-European refusal to give Climate Change Fund

UN Climate Change Conference at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Doha, Qatar, leaving less than a day. However, until Thursday (06/12/2012), there is no commitment of funding for climate change.

Wednesday was appointed minister of the Maldives and Switzerland-represented developing and developed countries-to resolve the differences between two groups. The talks are still deadlocked include funding commitments to climate change and the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol which the first phase ended December 31, 2012.

The conference in Durban at COP-17 agreed to a new regime that would replace the Kyoto Protocol came into force in 2020 and the design is completed by 2015.

Until yesterday, the U.S. and the European Union refused to provide fresh funds to climate change from 2013 to 2020. Developing countries say it took at least an additional 60 billion dollars from now until 2015 to deal with disasters caused by climate change, such as drought, flooding, large waves, and storms.

Representative of the European Union, Pete Betts, said, "Currently in the European financial weight. And, we like other developed countries are not in a position to agree any targets in 2015. "

Jonathan Pershing of the United States said, "We do what we have agreed and according to the commitments we give." Party supports the U.S. for funding prior to 2020, the so-called fast-track fund.

On Tuesday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged negotiators to set aside their differences in the face of the "crisis" of global warming is very heavy.

Wednesday (12/05/2012) night, the REDD + Task Force Chairman Kuntoro gave a progress report on programs to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD +) in Indonesia. "For the first time in history, the government is open to the public so it can be checked against a digital map anyone in the whole world," he said.

According to him, not only about REDD + and forest carbon. "The issue of human welfare, justice, and the eradication of poverty."