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whether inside or outside of the UNFCCC- from reducing HFCs to phasing outossil fuel subsides. ECO is also waiting

with bated breath for announcements fromour Qatari hosts and Gulf neighbours onheir contribution to the global effort.

Ministers: You are here to lay the founda-ions for a new Protocol. You must there-ore instruct your negotiators that they

move in the middle of 2013 from conceptu-al brainstorming to concrete discussions,resulting in a compilation text of propos-als by COP19. Brainstorm and build --hats ECOs motto! The re-election of

President Obama and the new leadershipn China has created the potential for

change. Lets capitalize on that in Dohaand beyond.

#5 Leave the laggards behind

The planet cannot wait for action. Somecountries are clearly not serious about our

common endeavor to address the threat ofdangerous climate change.

We cannot afford to wait for Russia, whowont put a target on the table, but stillwants any goodies that might be around- whether it means holding onto its hot

air or having access to revenues fromcarbon trading.

We cannot allow the pace to be set byCanada, who failed to meet their commit-ments under the Kyoto Protocol, and thenwithdrew in order to avoid the con-sequences.

And New Zealand will need to make achoice -- is it serious about climate protec-ion, or does it wish to be singled out as an

obstacle to progress? These countries riskbecoming increasingly sidelined, as theglobal community works to forge con-sensus on a new logic under the ADP.

Ministers, we need you to finish the workbegun here in Doha. You must close theoopholes, deliver the money, addressssues head on, and map out a clear

course for the negotiations under the ADP.Then you need to go home and act!

ECO understands that progress on transpar-ent reporting of climate finance is grinding to ahalt. SBSTA was meant to adopt common tab-ular formats for reporting by developed coun-tries of both emissions and climate finance.Now the process appears to be deadlocked

with no immediate solutions in sight.Apparently, developed countries are oppos-

ing a key proposal made by developing coun-tries on transparent reporting a commontabular format on climate change. Essentially,this is a method to provide listings of individu-al, bilaterally financed actions, rather than justaggregate figures per recipient country or persector.

The idea to list every single financed actionwith information on title, recipient country,committed amount, climate component ofamount, sector, mitigation/adaptation, grants /

/ loans (also stating grant equivalent) and soforth seems pretty reasonable to ECO. Trans-parency of one's own actions is a key ingredi-ent to a 'circle of confidence' and a pre-

condition for the V in MRV. Developedcountries could use such lists to demon-strate transparency, as well as trackingwhere and how their climate finance isflowing.

However, developed countries continue

to argue that submitting project listings istoo cumbersome. ECO would like toremind everyone that developed countriesare already compiling such lists forexample, the OECD DAC reporting systemcurrently used to report aid flows. So theidea of such listings is neither new nor pro-hibitively cumbersome.

If developed countries continue to resistproviding listings of financed actions aspart of their MRV exercise, ECO is alwayseager to serve. For example, ECO coulduse the freedom of information laws that

exist in many countries to locate theinformation and submit it to the UNFCCC,as a courtesy to transparency and the Vin MRV.

MRV of Finance: What Could Be So Hard About That?

ECO has been pondering the evident marginalization of the civil society voice lately

and started scribbling a few preambular thoughts on a serviette

Reaffirmingthat vibrant public participation allows vital experience, expertise,

information and perspectives from civil society to be brought into the process to generate

new insights and approaches1;

Acknowledgingthe respectful, positive and constructive dialogue at the December 1 ADP

Special Event;

EncouragingParties and the Secretariat to provide roundtables and other opportunities toenhance the full inclusion of civil society as a relevant and meaningful voice in these

negotiations; . . .

#Operative text...1Guidelines for participation of representative of NGOs at meetings of the bodies of the UNFCCC.

Climate Action Network -International and SouthernVoices on Climate Change