Environmentalists perturbed as UN climate talks end
Environmental groups voiced frustration at the slow pace of negotiations as the United Nations climate change talks in Poznan, Poland came to an end.
They blamed particularly the wealthy nations for not taking the lead in supporting the transition to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
"Yet again the rich countries, who carry the historical responsibility for climate change, have failed to offer sufficient cuts," Tim Jones of the World Development Movement told the BBC echoing the concerns of most other environmental groups attending the conference.
Nations will need to work quickly to reach an agreement by the proposed target date of 2009.
The United States was considered particularly unhelpful, or at least the official Bush Delegation was in advancing an agenda to deal with climate change. Delegates visited more with unofficial U.S. delegates like John Kerry and Al Gore. From the Washington Post:
They blamed particularly the wealthy nations for not taking the lead in supporting the transition to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
"Yet again the rich countries, who carry the historical responsibility for climate change, have failed to offer sufficient cuts," Tim Jones of the World Development Movement told the BBC echoing the concerns of most other environmental groups attending the conference.
Nations will need to work quickly to reach an agreement by the proposed target date of 2009.
The United States was considered particularly unhelpful, or at least the official Bush Delegation was in advancing an agenda to deal with climate change. Delegates visited more with unofficial U.S. delegates like John Kerry and Al Gore. From the Washington Post:
German environment minister Sigmar Gabriel said he was taken aback that Paula Dobriansky, undersecretary of state for democracy and global affairs and head of the U.S. delegation, informed him that the United States would never make the 20-to-45 percent emissions cut (by 2020) that Europeans hope to include in a final pact because Congress will not even back Obama's more modest target."It was unbelievable," Gabriel said.
Gabriel said he was more intrigued by his meeting with Kerry, in which the senator emphasized that the United States could sign a deal in Copenhagen even if it had not yet enacted a domestic carbon cap, as long as the pact included meaningful action on the part of major emerging economies, such as those in China and India.
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