Public service: How to launch action on climate change

From Ambassador Marlene Moses, Nauru:

How to launch action on climate change


She writes:

"To stay on track, our proposal calls for the following calendar of events:

•     In the run up to COP19 in Warsaw this year, negotiators and observers should compile a list of energy efficiency and renewable energy policies and technologies proven to reduce emissions. The compilation should feed into a “technical paper,” written by the UNFCCC Secretariat, which would form the basis of more detailed discussions to come; 
•     The Warsaw conference should host a high-level meeting of environment ministers in order to assess the work and identify priority areas to be advanced in 2014;
•     The conference should establish expert working groups, which would be tasked with developing detailed and scalable solutions in the priority areas;

    The following year, at COP 20, the groups should deliver on their mandate, setting the stage for implementation."

And I must point out -- "technologies proven to reduce emissions" has nuclear energy number 1 on the list.