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Viewing cable 07USUNNEWYORK302, SECURITY COUNCIL CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE: RIGHT

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07USUNNEWYORK302 2007-04-19 13:54 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY USUN New York
VZCZCXRO0540
RR RUEHBZ RUEHGI RUEHHM RUEHLN RUEHMA RUEHMJ RUEHPB RUEHPOD RUEHRN
DE RUCNDT #0302/01 1091354
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 191354Z APR 07
FM USMISSION USUN NEW YORK
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 1718
INFO RUEHZN/ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COLLECTIVE
RUEHGG/UN SECURITY COUNCIL COLLECTIVE
RUCNUNE/UNEP GOVERNING COUNCIL COLLECTIVE
RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON 1110
RUEHNR/AMEMBASSY NAIROBI 0595
RHEHAAA/WHITEHOUSE WASHDC
RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA 2635
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 USUN NEW YORK 000302 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
NAIROBI FOR USREP UNEP 
NSC FOR CEQ 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: UNSC SENV ENRG UK
SUBJECT: SECURITY COUNCIL CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE: RIGHT 
ISSUE, WRONG FORUM 
 
REF: SECSTATE 50521 
 
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Summary 
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1. (U) UK Foreign Secretary Beckett chaired the UN Security 
Council's unprecedented April 17 open debate on energy, 
security and climate, although, because of controversy over 
introducing this topic into the Council, the event was 
formally titled "Open Debate on Letter from UK Permanent 
Representative."  Forty member states, in addition to the 15 
UNSC members, delivered statements that ran the expected 
spectrum of concern over feared ramifications from climate 
change, to outrage that the Security Council encroached on a 
topic that is already the purview of several other UN bodies. 
 The session produced no formal document, but generated 
numerous suggestions for future action.  End summary. 
 
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Big Turnout 
----------- 
 
2. (U) Making good on months-old intentions to bring climate 
change to "new stakeholders" by taking it to the Security 
Council, UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett presided over 
the UNSC's April 17 open debate based on a concept paper 
titled "Energy, Climate Change and Security."  Each of the 15 
members of the UNSC made statements, followed by 40 other UN 
member states and Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.  (Note: Of 
UNSC members, the UK and Slovakia were represented by FMs, 
and Italy by an MFA U/S.  Germany, Netherlands and Maldives 
were also represented at FM or other ministerial level, some 
of whom were in town for other high-level economic meetings. 
End note.)  The UK PermRep subsequently opined that 55 
national statements was a record for a Security Council open 
debate.  Despite the high attention generated by the session, 
the debate itself was largely lackluster and predictable. 
 
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Venue Debate a Running Theme 
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3. (SBU) As widely reported in the press, a central theme of 
the statements was a running debate over whether the UNSC had 
a mandate to discuss climate change.  Both the G77 and 
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) blocks condemned the UNSC's 
alleged encroachment on other UN organs, with Egypt, Sudan 
and Cuba being particularly strident, while India cheekily 
noted the debate was bad for the "climate in the Security 
Council."  Several developing states that aligned themselves 
with those blocks nevertheless engaged substantively on the 
topic.  All agreed that other UN bodies have significant 
roles to play in climate change discussions.  Small island 
and low-lying states were most vocal in treating the topic as 
a security concern, while EU members focused remarks touting 
their own commitments for future action on emissions and 
renewable energy.  Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation 
Bert Koenders gave a particularly suave, persuasive 
performance. 
 
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Russia, China and UNSYG 
----------------------- 
 
4. (SBU) While the USG statement (www.un.int/usa) sidestepped 
the debate over mandate, both Russia and China devoted a 
portion of their remarks castigating the UK's decision to 
bring climate change to the Security Council.  Nevertheless, 
both also gave defense of their national climate change 
policies.  China spoke of its numerous clean development 
partnerships and the fact that it developed its own 
sustainable development strategy fifteen years ago.  The 
Russian statement, running just over two minutes in length, 
boasted of Russia's post-1990 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 
reductions while also urging that global discussion of 
climate not provoke "panic" or "drama."  Secretary-General 
Ban's ten-minute statement straddled the venue debate and 
echoed his predecessor's plea that the international 
 
USUN NEW Y 00000302  002 OF 002 
 
 
community agree on ways to "live sustainably within the 
planet's means," pledging his personal engagement on the 
issue.  He did not specifically foreshadow future 
extraordinary meetings on climate issues. 
 
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Making Sound Bites 
------------------ 
 
5. (U) Developing states were unanimous in calling on 
developed states and the world's leading GHG emitters to 
shoulder primary responsibility for climate change mitigation 
and adaptation and to do a better job of fulfilling previous 
commitments.  Some delegates took the rhetoric to tendentious 
extremes.  Namibia's PermRep termed climate change 
"low-intensity biological or chemical warfare" and an 
"unprovoked war being waged on us by developed countries." 
Tuvalu said that, in contrast to the Cold War, we are now in 
a "Warmer War," where the weapons are "chimney stacks and 
exhaust pipes" and adding that, "We are confronted with a 
chemical war of immense proportions."  The Marshall Islands 
called the international response to climate change a "sad, 
grave disappointment." 
 
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Suggesting Next Steps 
--------------------- 
 
6. (U) One of the clear aims of the UK in bringing the debate 
to the UNSC was to generate further momentum for a post-Kyoto 
agreement on GHG emissions ahead of the UN Framework 
Convention on Climate Change ministerial in Bali in December. 
 While there was no outcome document from the session, 
several states recommended further action.  There were 
numerous calls for the SYG to convene a "climate summit" in 
the near future, advocates for the creation of a new umbrella 
"UN Environmental Organization" to help concentrate efforts 
on climate change, and several calls for the UNSC to better 
integrate environmental factors in its study of conflict 
situations, possibly with the creation of a new advisory 
office for just that function. 
WOLFF