Cancun Update: U.S. Delegation Press Briefing 3
Posted on 04. Dec, 2010 by astark in U.S.A.
I caught Todd Stern, Jonathan Pershing and the U.S. Delegation on the way to a press briefing yesterday afternoon
The U.S. delegation held its third press briefing of the talks yesterday. This time, the briefing featured Todd Stern, Special Envoy for Climate Change at the U.S. State Department, head of U.S. delegation Jonathan Pershing’s boss, who had just arrived in the morning. Stern underscored some of the points that Pershing has made in the past, stressing that country parties need to produce “a balanced package of decisions covering all Accord issues from the Copenhagen Accord, including mitigation, transparency, financing, technology, adaptation, and the REDD issue, forestry.”
On a path forward, he noted that “the key here in Cancun, I think, really the watchword is balance, genuine balance, comparable progress across all of the key issues. Balance is in our judgment, in my judgment, the key that can unlock the door to a strong set of decisions here in Cancun followed by a ramped up fast-track process in 2011 to elaborate all of the remaining details that will need to be elaborated on some of these issues, and then a final fully operational decision that could be done next year in South Africa.” On a hopeful note, Stern stated in his opening remarks that “I think that there are clearly a lot of challenges here, but also in my view, a lot that can be accomplished.”
You can access a complete transcript of this briefing here.
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