The UN's climate talks in Bonn, Germany has done little more than confirm the lack of momentum and political will to deal with rising emission.
There continues to be a significant division between rich and poor countries, those who support Kyoto and those who do not see binding CO2 emission cuts as a solution. Getting USA, China, India and Brazil involved with the new 2012 Kyoto protocol also appears fraught with problems.
-> Environmentalists was generally disappointed with the lack
of progress. Bill Hare, a climate policy adviser for the environmental
group Greenpeace said, "There is no sign of real focus
and momentum. This was a talk shop."
-> India's Environment
Ministry, Prodipto Ghosh, told the delegates that India saw the removal
of poverty as a far greater priority that global warming. India was
looking to increase energy use to help end poverty for the poorest
35% of its population.
-> China and other developing nations
in the group of 77 said in a statement that targets for rich states
beyond 2012 should be "substantially stricter" than the current Kyoto
targets.
-> U.S. climate negotiator Harlan Watson
reconfirmed that the USA has no plans to rejoin Kyoto, which
President George Bush quit in November 2001. Mr. Watson said
that it would cost US jobs and wrongly excluded developing nations
from a first round.
-> The European Union's spokesman said
that a global joint effort to deal with climate change
was needed because Kyoto backers will not be able to deal effectively
with global warming and rising CO2 levels on their own.
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Poor countries urged rich nations to give them more incentives
to brake their rising emissions from burning fossil fuels. Developing
countries continues to reject cuts on CO2 emissions in line with those
imposed on rich nations by the Kyoto Protocol.
