Parliamentarians call for a fair, equitable climate deal

‘We believe parliamentarians have a responsibility in stimulating the creation of climate resilient and low carbon development within their countries’ they stated

A network of Members of Parliament, including those from Commonwealth countries, have called on negotiators at the UN Climate Change conference in Copenhagen to reach “a fair and equitable” deal to save the planet.

In a joint statement by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), the Association of European Parliamentarians for Africa (AWEPA) and GLOBE International, the legislators said: “We hope that this meeting will lead to agreement on financial mechanisms, which will allocate sufficient funds needed for adaptation and appropriate mitigation measures and associated with these, capacity building and technology transfer. We look forward to an agreement helping us move towards a fair and more equitable world.”

The statement was developed following a suggestion made during a web cast phone-in programme from Copenhagen to Commonwealth Parliamentarians on 11 December 2009.

MPs and experts who were participating in the negotiations linked-up via a virtual tele-conference with MPs in other countries to review progress of the negotiations and the role of parliamentarians in taking forward action at the national level. The teleconference was organised by the World Bank Institute and CPA.