COP15: Copenhagen Fails, Next Stop Mexico

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COP15: Copenhagen Fails, Next Stop Mexico         
                                               


Talkshave broken down in Copenhagen at the United Nations Climate ChangeConference as China has said that it will not back an operationalagreement outlining long-term carbon and green house gas targets. Thebreakdown comes ahead of President Obama’s arrival in Copenhagentomorrow.

Politico, citingaReuters report, writes that China’s climate negotiators have toldWestern counterparts they can’t agree on an “operational agreement” onclimate change. Instead, in a bid to save face, China, which since thestart of the conference has been the de facto spokesperson for the G77group of developing nations,  is now proposing a noncommittalcollective statement to fight climate change with no binding agreement.

This is a serious setback for the Obama administration and Democratsin Congress, who had hoped to bring back some sort of agreement fromCopenhagen to pass a climate change and energy bill.

Britain’s energy and climate minister, Ed Miliband, said failure toreach a substantive agreement in Copenhagen could turn the two-weeklong conference into a “farce”. ”We may not get there on the substance.It is quite possible we’ll fail on the substance. But at least let’sgive it a try,” he said.

After Copenhagen, the next U.N. climate change conference is set to convene in Mexico City next November.

Is this a negotiation ploy by Chinese climate change negotiators?Underscoring the paralysis in Copenhagen Todd Stern, the lead U.S.climate change negotiator, told Politico that his team had not heldtalks with their Chinese counterparts for a whole day.

While the mood in Copenhagen is gloomy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, ahead of President Obama’s Friday arrival, said the U.S. would commit an unspecified amounttoa $100 billion “green fund” to help poor nations adapt to climatechange. This is the first time the Obama administration has made acommitment to a medium-term financing effort. Last week, European Unioncountries offered €2.4 billion ($3.51 billion) a year for the nextthree years for developing countries.

Developing countries say they will need $100 to $200 billion a year by 2020 to fight climate change.

http://greenenergyreporter.com/2009/12/cop15-copenhagen-fails-next-stop-mexico/

青蛙小王子

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kingskill

Yeah...and at the end, all the wrong things have been done by China....

That's the conclusion...en?

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