The EU minimum enters into any agreement on his position on climate change

European leaders have reached a minimal agreement on the position to defend the EU in global negotiations in Copenhagen on the fight against climate change. The 27 consider that the measures to combat climate change will cost the developing countries about 100,000 million per year in 2020, of which between 22,000 and 50,000 million should come from international public funding.

The rest result from the combined efforts of developing countries themselves (through public and private funding) and revenues of the carbon market.

The EU contribution to international public funding has not been finalized, but it does have twenty-seven tracks on the magnitude that could have, noting that every country in the world except the poorest, should contribute in terms of " responsibility for global emissions and its capacity to deliver, by giving considerable weight to the emission levels.

In any case, this is the first figures to reach agreement on EU governments ahead of the global climate conference to be held in Copenhagen in December, according to sources and diplomatic community.
"Mandate for Copenhagen

The Twenty-seven have finally agreed on the problematic section of the financial assistance to developing countries, to support their efforts and adjustments to the fight against global warming.

"The European Union already has a mandate to Copenhagen, a strong position and we continue to lead the process", assured the acting president of the EU, the Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. "We now expect others to follow," he added.

"We can tell everybody that we are ready for Copenhagen. We will carry this message to Washington to New Delhi and other capitals," noted for its part, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso during the final press conference Community summit held in Brussels yesterday and today.

The European Council also has "taken note" of the European Commission estimates according to which developing nations need urgent annual funding (2010-2012) of between 5,000 and 7,000 million euros, which will help both the EU and "Those member states which may, in accordance with its economic and financial situation, with their share of these costs equitably.
Concessions to the East

Reinfeldt has made clear in the press conference that this first aid will therefore be a "voluntary". All these figures have only been agreed to concessions to the base of the East.

While leaving for later the decision about how much each member state to provide funding that the EU give to developing nations, which the Eastern European partners insisted on clarifying before closing a European position, the West had to give in other respects.

Specifically, the 27 have agreed to leave the door open to use of the allowances set by the Kyoto Protocol after the expiry of this agreement in late 2012, an option that will produce substantial savings income to block more modest, and they can sell the credits have not used before that date to other states.

According to the text of the conclusions of this European Council, the transfer of allowances "should be addressed in a nondiscriminatory manner, so as not to affect the environmental integrity of the Copenhagen agreement," which means that the option is not ruled by Complete as requested, including Germany.

In return for this concession, the Eastern European countries have agreed not only to postpone the debate on how much each member state should provide aid to developing countries, but the mechanism is implemented within the EU is based on the agreed at international level that are likely to take account of the GDP and the responsibility for emissions in each country.