With a concession to China, more than 180 nations at the U.N. climate conference appeared to reach preliminary agreement Friday on next steps toward negotiating deeper future cuts in global-warming emissions, Germany's environment minister said.
Future meetings under the deal would review the workings of the Kyoto Protocol by 2008 with an eye toward setting new emissions quotas after it expires in 2012.
But China was assured that process would not negotiate cutbacks by developing nations, said Germany's Sigmar Gabriel, who expressed some disappointment.
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China, India and others have resisted efforts at the U.N. climate conference to begin early talks in which they and other poor but fast-developing nations might be pressured to accept mandatory cutbacks in emissions linked to global warming.
Remember folks, don't build anything less than 9m (30 ft) above sea level. ok?
I admire certain things about what he is trying to do (and disagree with him on others).
ReplyDeleteHowever, one nation cannot tackle this problem alone. Period. It won't matter if the EU does actually, amazingly, reach its goals, China will more than make up for it. Or the US. Keep in mind that China will be surpassing the US in carbon emissions a whole deacade earlier than the forecasts predicted. If there's no leash there, it'll only get worse over the next decade and change as China and India converge with the West.