What CAN-E is doing on FSF

05 November 2010

Though Member State (MS) data is hard to come by CAN-Europe has commissioned a report on EU's FSF pledges, this report will list all the publically available data and will challenge the EU MS to fill in the gaps. We hope to push the need for establishing common baselines, and transparent reporting methodologies that are comparable. The EU has announced that it will only publish aggregate data, which we feel would dampen the already deteriorated trust-deficit between developed and developing countries even further. This report shall be published just head of the ECOFIN Council on November 17th.

CAN-Europe together with some of its members is meeting with the Commission, a few key Perm Reps, the Belgian Presidency, EGIF, JWG to put pressure on the EU regarding additionality and common baselines.

CAN-Europe is also looking to publish op-eds by high-level negotiators and decisions makers on climate finance and integrate FSF issues as appropriate. We feel there are a lot of lessons to be learned from FSF for long-term finance.

We will be issuing a letter to the JWG Secretariat and the Commission to have MS level data submitted in the form of questionnaires that were circulated by the Presidency to be made publically available under provisions of the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters to Community Institutions and bodies (EC Regulation (EC) 1367/2006). CAN-Europe is working with ClientEarth to write up the formal letters of request.

Side-event on FSF at Cancun (December 1st) where negotiators from both donor and recipient countries will be invited to be on panel discussion. We will also distribute our mock EU FSF report to challenge EU MS to fill in the gaps on data.