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<DIV class=gmail_quote>Очень интересная статья про то, как сейчас работает
климатическая дипломатия.<BR><BR>---------------<BR><BR><A
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climate diplomacy: ‘Technology doesn’t help build trust’<BR><BR>Published on
01/04/2020, 9:34am<BR><BR>The coronavirus pandemic has pushed climate diplomacy
online, greening<BR>much of UN Climate Change’s operations but virtual meeting
bring their<BR>own challenges<BR><BR>The meeting of the Adaptation Committee
took place online earlier this<BR>month. (Photo: Youtube)<BR><BR>By Chloé
Farand<BR><BR>As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the world, the
climate<BR>diplomacy that was so critical to leverage governments
into<BR>strengthening their climate plans this year is moving online.<BR><BR>And
with it, the tough diplomatic and political ask expected ahead of a<BR>critical
climate summit in Glasgow, or Cop26, in November has also<BR>become a
technological challenge.<BR><BR>“Some of us might be cut off or the sound might
not work very well so we<BR>will need to adjust to that. As the Adaptation
Committee, we can do it<BR>very well,” smiled Olga Pilifosova, manager of the
Adaptation programme<BR>at UN Climate Change secretariat, from an online Zoom
meeting.<BR><BR>Adaptation to the impacts of climate change – such as heatwaves,
floods,<BR>and droughts – is part of a two-pronged UN strategy
alongside<BR>mitigation, focused on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.<BR><BR>The
coronavirus which as of Tuesday killed more than 36,500 people<BR>worldwide has
forced UN Climate Change to find new, greener, ways of<BR>working, pushing
climate diplomacy into the digital space.<BR><BR>The Cop26 presidency team is
holding “virtual trips” and international<BR>meetings through video and phone
conferences.<BR><BR>UN Climate Change announced it won’t hold any physical
meetings until<BR>the end of April and although a number of meetings have been
postponed,<BR>smaller sessions have moved online. It’s too early to say whether
the<BR>pandemic will affect Cop26, and UN Climate Change is set to decide
on<BR>Wednesday evening about a mid-year session due in Bonn in June.<BR><BR>As
Zoom diplomacy takes hold, the informal spaces for negotiators to<BR>meet at the
coffee machine or for a corridor chat have been replaced<BR>with a much more
streamlined process online.<BR><BR>While the cancellation of all
carbon-intensive air travel is a positive<BR>side effect of the crisis for the
international climate community,<BR>adapting to virtual meeting brings its own
challenges.<BR><BR>For many developing countries, where fibre-optic cables are
not<BR>available and bandwidth is low, connectivity, and
therefore<BR>participation, has proved difficult at times.<BR><BR>Coronavirus
slows developing nations’ plans to step up climate action in<BR>2020<BR><BR>“The
problem is that in some countries, internet is still an expensive<BR>luxury,”
Alpha Kaloga, a climate negotiator from Guinea, told Climate<BR>Home
News.<BR><BR>But delay to climate action is not an option. “Given the urgency of
the<BR>climate crisis, we want and need the work to get done, but we want it
to<BR>be inclusive,” Kaloga added.<BR><BR>During a virtual meeting of the Warsaw
International Mechanism – the<BR>international framework which addresses climate
impacts which emissions<BR>cuts and adaptation efforts cannot prevent – one of
two African<BR>representatives dialling in from Sudan was unable to participate
because<BR>of low bandwidth.<BR><BR>UN Climate Change is working to ensure
everyone can participate to<BR>online meetings.<BR><BR>In 2018, UN Climate
Change spent $12 million on travel for participants<BR>and staff. Now, its
travel team is offering to book delegates with<BR>connectivity issues hotel
rooms close to their homes, to ensure they can<BR>still participate in online
sessions.<BR><BR>Where possible, other UN regional offices could also be put
at<BR>delegates’ disposal dependent on domestic travel restrictions.<BR><BR>And
a narrow two-hour window in the middle of day Central European Time<BR>has been
identified to accommodate the greatest time zone span. It is<BR>daytime in
Europe and Africa, evening in Asia, early morning in the<BR>Americas, but the
middle of the night in the Pacific.<BR><BR>Japan sticks to 2030 climate goals,
accused of a ‘disappointing’ lack of<BR>ambition<BR><BR>While virtual meetings
are a necessary short-term fix, in the longer-<BR>term poorer nations will need
additional technological capacity.<BR><BR>Tenzin Wangmo, of Bhutan and the lead
negotiator for a group of Least<BR>Developed Countries (LDC), told CHN that even
in small meetings, LDC<BR>negotiators often had to turn off the video function
to ensure better<BR>connection.<BR><BR>“Infrastructure is going to be a
challenge for the LDC group.<BR>Definitely, it’s going to impact the substance
of the discussions,” she<BR>said, adding that many LDC countries had just
started to work on their<BR>new climate plans and much of that work was now
halted.<BR><BR>“I don’t think having a meeting using technology can help build
trust<BR>between each other,” she added.<BR><BR>Speaking to CHN, Carlos Fuller,
of Belize and lead negotiator of the<BR>Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis),
said it was difficult to<BR>imagine online meetings extending to the whole
climate diplomacy process<BR>and to the climate talks which bring together
nearly 200 countries.<BR><BR>“We [Aosis] interact well because it’s a smaller
group and we know each<BR>other. But I still want to see how a global meeting is
going to work on<BR>a Zoom platform,” Fuller said. Wangmo agreed: “I don’t think
we can<BR>bring all-party negotiations online. I think that would
impact<BR>participation.”<BR><BR>Part of the reason is that for an online
meeting “to be successful, it<BR>is to be short,” Fuller added, finding a silver
lining in the need for<BR>some efficiency improvement.<BR><BR>Climate news in
your inbox? Sign up here<BR><BR>But efficiency does not necessarily mean the
same thing for everyone.<BR>“You end up addressing the most important issues for
the most important<BR>players,” one developing nation diplomat
warned.<BR><BR>Virtual meetings also remove the human contact, personal ties
and<BR>spontaneity in discussions that have long been the hallmark
of<BR>diplomatic deal-making. Popular online meeting platforms also
don’t<BR>support instant translations and negotiators can no longer rely on
body<BR>language.<BR><BR>“Negotiations are like role play and you really need to
be face to face<BR>to do that,” one diplomat told CHN. “You get a feeling if
there is<BR>tension in the room, how people react to propositions and it’s
easier to<BR>test ideas”.<BR><BR>This bargaining aspect of diplomacy has seen
negotiators long favour<BR>closed doors meetings to broker deals and compromise.
Online<BR>conversations are much easily recorded, which may allow
more<BR>transparency but does not suit everyone’s negotiating
strategy.<BR><BR>“That changes the type of conversations that can take place,”
the<BR>diplomat added.<BR><BR>Many agree UN Climate Change processes would
benefit from more efficient<BR>processes, more virtual meetings and less
international travel. “This is<BR>forcing us to think about how we operate,” one
veteran negotiator told<BR>CHN, “but it is not going to create the dynamic that
we need” before<BR>Cop26.<BR><BR>“And a crisis coping-mechanism is not
necessarily the way we want to<BR>adapt in the long term”.<BR><BR><BR>--
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Климатическая дипломатия через Zoom: «Технологии не
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