Poorer nations upped the ante on (øgede kravene til) developed countries at UN climate talks in Bangkok on Tuesday by demanding that the world’s main climate treaty be extended from 2013 and for industrialized countries to deepen carbon-cutting pledges (mindre udledning af CO 2).
Failure to do risked scuttling drawn-out and often fraught negotiations on ways to slow the growth of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions and avoid greater extremes of weather and rising sea levels.
Japan and Russia have firmly opposed extending the protocol because it excludes the world’s two biggest polluters – China and the US – and therefore only covers about 30 percent of global emissions.
Developing countries, including China, did not have to commit to cutting emissions as part of the Kyoto Protocol and most of them maintain this should remain the case.
NGOs said Tuesday that developed nations’ pledges of emission cut and climate change finance were inadequate in saving the world from global warming.
Matthew Stilwell, director of Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, stated that industrialized nations’ efforts were ‘clearly quite inadequate’ in not allowing the world to get warmer than 2 degree Celsius from historical level.
He said part of the 100 billion US dollar (530 milliarder DKR) pledged by developed nations to help developing countries in adapting to climate change would be spent on “carbon market” (køb og salg af CO2-kvoter).
Meanwhile, the World Bank said Tuesday it had sold 500.000 UN-backed certified emissions reductions (CERs) for its adaptation fund which finances clean energy projects in developing countries.
