CLIMATE ENVOYS MAY WANT CHINESE ACTIONS, NOT RESULTS, BINDING
Alex Morales
Bloomberg, November 2, 2009
Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- United Nations climate negotiators meeting this week in Barcelona will debate how far they can push developing nations such as China and India to restrict greenhouse-gas emissions blamed for global warming.
While the UN will ask industrialized countries to accept binding targets on their gas discharges, poorer nations may be urged only to adopt measures to limit emissions growth, such as building wind-energy farms.
Developing countries may be urged only to ensure those “actions” are undertaken, and may not have to prove they are successful, under a new climate-protection agreement, the UN’s top climate official said in an interview.
“They would commit to the action and not to the result,” UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer said before the negotiations started today, when asked to indicate areas where accords might be struck.
Getting China, the largest greenhouse-gas producer, to curb emissions is a goal of several industrialized countries. U.S. officials, concerned about competitive advantage, have said they won´t approve a treaty that has no gas-limitation measures for the fastest-growing developing nations such as China and India.
UN officials have long called for a new climate treaty to include absolute targets for developed nations and to indicate what measures poorer countries such as China, India and Brazil will take to rein in their discharges.
One proposal that has been debated is to document the developing world’s pledges in a registry. The U.S. has asked that those actions be measurable and legally binding. Developing nations have rejected internationally enforceable commitments.
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Alex Morales
Bloomberg, November 2, 2009
Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- United Nations climate negotiators meeting this week in Barcelona will debate how far they can push developing nations such as China and India to restrict greenhouse-gas emissions blamed for global warming.
While the UN will ask industrialized countries to accept binding targets on their gas discharges, poorer nations may be urged only to adopt measures to limit emissions growth, such as building wind-energy farms.
Developing countries may be urged only to ensure those “actions” are undertaken, and may not have to prove they are successful, under a new climate-protection agreement, the UN’s top climate official said in an interview.
“They would commit to the action and not to the result,” UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer said before the negotiations started today, when asked to indicate areas where accords might be struck.
Getting China, the largest greenhouse-gas producer, to curb emissions is a goal of several industrialized countries. U.S. officials, concerned about competitive advantage, have said they won´t approve a treaty that has no gas-limitation measures for the fastest-growing developing nations such as China and India.
UN officials have long called for a new climate treaty to include absolute targets for developed nations and to indicate what measures poorer countries such as China, India and Brazil will take to rein in their discharges.
One proposal that has been debated is to document the developing world’s pledges in a registry. The U.S. has asked that those actions be measurable and legally binding. Developing nations have rejected internationally enforceable commitments.
(...) [artículo aquí]
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