FNs klimachef regner ikke længere med, at verden enes om en efterfølger til Kyoto-protokollen i tide
UN talks have run out of time to meet a December 2012 deadline to put in place a binding successor to the Kyoto Protocol on curbing greenhouse gases, the UNs top climate official said Monday.
– Even if they were able to agree on a legal text, that requires an amendment to the Kyoto Protocol, it requires legislative ratifications on the part of three-quarters of the parties, so we would assume that there is no time to do that between Durban and the end of 2012, said UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres.
Developing countries insist the Kyoto obligations be extended (forlænget) and new targets adopted. Industrial countries say they want emerging economies to accept similar binding commitments.
But Figueres said negotiators are trying to move outside of the rich-poor boxes. – Countries are being much more constructive and creative. We do not know yet where it is going to lead, but there is a very healthy atmosphere of really listening to each other, noted she.
The “G77 and China group” – a bloc of 131 developing countries – reiterated Monday its demand for Kyoto pledges to be renewed when the present commitment period ends at the end of 2012. This would be “one of the key outcomes in Durban. ‘Its continuity demands a strong political decision from all parties”, the group said in a press release.
Russia, Japan and Canada, however, have said they will not sign up for a new round of CO2 cuts unless rising giants such as China, India and Brazil accept constraints as well.
Kilde: www.worldbank.org
