Energy | Nature

US-led bloc trying to scuttle Kyoto Protocol: G-77

Posted : Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:00:02 GMT
By : Joydeep Gupta
Category : Environment
News Alerts by Email ( click here )
Environment News | Home
Bali, Dec 12 - Some industrialised countries led by the US are trying to scuttle the entire Kyoto Protocol and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Group of 77 countries said Wednesday as the Dec 3-14 Bali summit to address climate change appeared to lose all momentum.

As the high-level segment of the summit started in the morning with over 130 ministers and the UN secretary general in attendance, the US and some other industrialised countries suggested the launch of negotiations for a 'comprehensive treaty' to address climate change.

The G-77 saw that as an attempt to erode and possibly scuttle the Kyoto Protocol and the UNFCCC, Pakistan's permanent representative to the UN Munir Akram said here.

Expressing the 'deep unease of the group at these attempts', he said: 'We would like to reiterate that the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol remain the central multilateral framework for cooperative actions to address climate change.'

The developing countries that make up the G-77 are afraid that a new dispensation to fight climate change would never get off the ground because the industrialised countries would insist that major developing countries such as China, India, Brazil and South Africa take on legally binding commitments to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) that are leading to global warming.

Akram said this would be a 'less equitable instrument'. Pakistan is currently the co-chair of the G-77.

India's Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Kapil Sibal told IANS any such idea to ask developing countries to take on legally binding GHG emissions was a non-starter.

Earlier, at the plenary session of the summit's high-level segment, speaking on behalf of G-77 and China, Akram had expressed the group's 'extreme disappointment' that there had been no decision at the UN climate change conference that would allow the implementation of green technologies identified by developing countries.

Technology transfer to mitigate emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) that warm the earth's atmosphere has been one of the most contentious issues at the Bali summit.

Industrialised countries have blocked discussions on the plea that it was up to private companies to transfer technologies, though it is supposed to be one of the four building blocks of the global move to address climate change, according to UNFCCC executive secretary Yvo de Boer.

Akram told the delegates at the plenary: 'The development and transfer of technology to developing countries through an effective mechanism supported by adequate and predictable financial resource base is vital to enabling developing countries to face the challenges posed by climate change.

'We would like to express our disappointment over the manner in which we had to struggle for long hours to restore this important item on the SBI (subsidiary body on implementation of the UNFCCC) agenda. It is our hope that this subject will be given the priority it deserves.


(c) Indo-Asian News Service

Share/Save/Bookmark

Article : US-led bloc trying to scuttle Kyoto Protocol: G-77
Print this article
Email this article

Stay Updated
News gadget on your Google homepage
Subscribe to a news feed in Google Reader


Related News

Poland to sell surplus CO2 emission rights to Spain
Warsaw - Poland signed a deal Monday to sell surplus greenhouse gas emission rights to Spain in what is the first move for Warsaw of its kind. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that the deal would give Warsaw funds for investments in lowering ca...

EU launches online pollution tracker
Brussels - European Union citizens are now able to check how bad for their health industrial plants near their homes are, after the EU's executive on Monday opened an online tracker for the main pollutants. The register will give citizens direct acc...

Economic recovery, climate change tops G20 meeting - Update
St Andrews, Scotland - Finance ministers from the world's 20 leading economies were meeting Saturday in the Scottish golf resort of St Andrews in a bid to reinforce signs of a tentative recovery that have emerged in the global eoncomy. But coming in ...

Can anyone save a Copenhagen climate treaty? - Feature
Brussels - It is not often that negotiators call talks a failure before they have begun, but that seemed the case on Friday ahead of United Nations climate-change talks in Copenhagen. ...

Binding climate treaty in Copenhagen deemed unlikely - Summary
Barcelona - Negotiators from several European and developing countries stressed Friday the need for a legally binding treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol but conceded such a deal may not be reached at the upcoming Copenhagen climate conference....

India, EU leaders hold talks on trade, climate change
New Delhi - Leaders from India and the European Union began discussions at a summit Friday during which both sides were expected to give a boost to negotiations for a free-trade pact and expand cooperation in areas ranging from counter-terrorism to c...

Key Senate panel approves climate bill; Republicans boycott - Summary
Washington - A key Senate committee approved a landmark climate bill Thursday that would force US companies to curb greenhouse-gas emissions blamed for global warming. But the 11-1 vote in the Senate Environment Committee was boycotted by opposition ...

Have your Say
Name
Email
Subject
Your Comment

Enter Verification code
 
  

 

 
Your Comments

hey
By: Daniel , Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:56:39 GMT

i hate globol warming and the kyoto protocal end it please or we all will end



More Environment News click here
Follow The Earth Times
Subscribe to RSS Follow Earth Times on TwitterNews by email
Share/Save/Bookmark

 
 



 
Subscribe to free Earthtimes
News Alerts by Email Click here
For RSS Feeds Click here
or Create your own RSS

Add to Google Toolbar
Breaking News
Press Releases

 


The Earth Times
News Category

© 2009 www.earthtimes.org, The Earth Times, All Rights Reserved | Privacy Policy
Earth Times accept no responsibility or liability either directly or indirectly for views or opinions expressed in articles or comments.