CHOGM Declaration on Climate Change tows India line

The 53-nation Commonwealth Heads of Government Meet (CHOGM) today adopted a Climate Change Declaration pledging to significantly increase technological support to developing countries to facilitate deployment and diffusion of clean technologies through a range of mechanisms.

The Declaration adopted at the conclusion of the Special Session on Climate Change, weeks ahead of the Copenhagen Summit, said the Commonwealth would work to facilitate and enable the transition to low-emission economies, climate resilience, and in particular, support, including through capacity building, for increasing the climate resilience of vulnerable economies.

It said the agreement in Copenhagen must address the urgent needs of developing countries by providing financing, support for adaptation, technology transfer, capacity building, approaches and incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and for afforestation and sustainable management of forests.

It said developed countries should continue to lead on cutting their emissions, and developing countries, in line with their national circumstances, should also take action to achieve a substantial deviation from business-as-usual emissions including with financial and technical support, and also supported by technology and capacity building.

The leaders agreed that an equitable governance structure to manage the financial and technological support must be put in place and that a future governance structure should provide for states to monitor and comply with arrangements entered under a new Copenhagen agreement.

They also said they would aim at developing cleaner, more affordable and renewable energy sources and called for exploring global mechanisms through which those identified technologies could be disseminated.

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