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On adaptation, the COP addressed a range of issues, such as international
cooperation to support urgent implementation of various adaptation actions.
Developing countries are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of
climate change.
On technology development and transfer, the COP decided to consider
mechanisms to remove obstacles and provide incentives to accelerate the
transfer of environmental technologies to developing countries and support
cooperation on research and development. Agreement on the final details is
complicated; it may only be reached when an agreement on future
commitments is made.
Regarding financing, the COP decided to consider improved access to
financial resources and support, and the provision of new and additional
resources, including official and concessional funding; also positive incentives
and innovative means of funding, as well as mobilization of public and private
sector funding and investment, and support for capacity building.
Bringing together adaptation and finance, the most significant outcome was
the establishment of the Adaptation Fund to finance adaptation in developing
countries.
6.2 Comments
The Bali roadmap aims to mend some faults in the process of building the
architecture of the climate change regime, with the most relevant being the
refusal of the United States to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Its main cause, the
tension created between developed and developing countries; among other
thing, the US wants developing countries to contribute to the mitigation of
climate change. In addition, there is a lack of confidence in the effective
implementation of existing commitments.
COP 13 and COP/MOP 3 succeeded in creating a framework for
negotiations for the post-2012 climate regime. It may not be what the EU was
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