Opening Salvos as UN Climate

Donal — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:11:13 +0000

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Opening Salvos as UN Climate Negotiations Slog On

[Hugh Bartling] The 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change begins tomorrow in Durban, South Africa.

For several years now the world’s governments have been trying to develop a comprehensive treaty to address the climate problem and the shortcomings of the Kyoto Protocol. Very little progress has been made.

There are many obstacles to be cleared. One of the most intractable is the desire on the part of the United States to insure that developing countries take actions to reduce the growth of their emissions in such a way that they can be objectively verified.

For developing countries such as China and India, they respond that the United States is a large historic emitter and that they expect action from the developed world before they will consider any legal instrument inhibiting their own emission growth.

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Opening Salvos as UN Climate