Outline of Presentation by Executive Director, South Centre at Special Event at UNFCCC subsidiary bodies on Impacts on Developing Countries of Response Measures (Mitigation) by Developed Countries

Bonn, 14 June 2011

The Executive Director of South Centre made a presentation at the Special Event, organised by the Chairs of the Subsidiary Bodies on Implementation (SBI) and Science and Technological Advice (SBSTA). This is an outline of his preseentation.

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Statement by the South Centre at the high-level panel on Trade, at the LDC-IV conference

Istanbul, 10 May 2011

Trade has been at the centre of discussion of LDCs improving their economy and social conditions.It was said that LDCs are not integrated into the world economy, that is why they are marginalized. This is not true. Many LDCs have higher exports to GNP ratio than some developed countries. It is the way in which the LDCs are integrated in trade that has been a disadvantage. LDCs are too dependent on raw materials export, and prices of commodities have had a long-term trend decline, thus causing major revenue and income losses for LDCs.

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Statement at the UNFCCC Climate Conference (COP16, CMP6)

Mr. Martin Khor, Executive Director of the South Centre, gave a statement at the UNFCCC Climate Conference (COP16, CMP6) at Cancun, 10 December 2010.The statement addresses finding international cooperative ways to climate problems under the UNFCCC for convening the multilateral process towards the seeking and implementation of solutions.

The statement points out that the global solution requires addressing the environment, development and equity dimensions simultaneously. On emission reduction, International financial and technology support are thus crucial. On adaptation, developing countries feel the urgent need set up an international mechanism to address damage and loss from these climate-related events and effects and to deal with adaptation policies and measures overall.

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presentation on the Ad-Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) during the 8th session of the AWG-LCA

Mr. Martin Khor, Executive Director of the South Centre, gave a presentation on the concept of historical responsibility as a guide to future action on climate during the technical briefing on the same topic organized by the Chair of the Ad-Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) on Thursday, 4 June 2009, during the 8th session of the AWG-LCA in Bonn, Germany.

Experts from Bolivia, Brazil, China, and India also gave presentations on their perspectives on the same issue. Common perspectives from these presentations all stress the primary historical responsibility of developed countries for today's global warming and the need for these countries to undertake very deep emissions reductions - even going into negative emissions - together with providing substantial financial and technological flows to developing countries as a reflection of such historical responsibility.

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Statement at the UN General Assembly Extraordinary Thematic Dialogue on The World Financial And Economic Crisis And Its Impact On Development

The Soujth Centre's Executive Director made a presentation in a panel at the UN General Assembly Dialogue on the World Financial and Economic Crisis on 25 March, 2009.

The statement elaborates on how the crisis is affecting developing countries through the trade and finance mechanisms, and makes several proposals on reforms needed in rebuilding the international financial and economic architecture, from the perspective of developing countries.

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