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发帖数: 29846 | 1 May 29, 2011
DEAUVILLE, France: Russia, Japan and Canada told the G8 they would not join
a second round of carbon cuts under the Kyoto Protocol at United Nations
talks this year and the US reiterated it would remain outside the treaty,
European diplomats have said.
The future of the Kyoto Protocol has become central to efforts to negotiate
reductions of carbon emissions under the UN's Framework Convention on
Climate Change, whose annual meeting will take place in Durban, South Africa
, from November 28 to December 9.
Developed countries signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. They agreed to
legally binding commitments on curbing greenhouse gas emissions blamed for
global warming.
Those pledges expire at the end of next year. Developing countries say a
second round is essential to secure global agreements.
But the leaders of Russian, Japan and Canada confirmed they would not join a
new Kyoto agreement, the diplomats said.
They argued that the Kyoto format did not require developing countries,
including China, the world's No. 1 carbon emitter, to make targeted emission
cuts.
At last Thursday's G8 dinner the US President, Barack Obama, confirmed
Washington would not join an updated Kyoto Protocol, the diplomats said.
The US, the second-largest carbon emitter, signed the protocol in 1997 but
in 2001 the then president, George W. Bush, said he would not put it to the
Senate for ratification.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/kyoto-deal-loses-four-big-nations-20110528-1f9dk.html#ixzz1Ny4UZZ4R |
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