Britain: A new global pact to tackle climate change may not happen
By APTuesday, September 8, 2009
UK: Global deal on climate change may not happen
LONDON — Britain’s Foreign Secretary says there is danger a United Nations conference in December won’t strike a global deal on climate change.
David Miliband said Tuesday the complexity of negotiations and disputes between industrialized and developing nations leave prospects for a deal “in the balance.”
He said they threaten to sink a new global pact which would replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the conference in Copenhagen.
Miliband will travel to France, the Netherlands, Poland and Denmark this week to discuss how European nations can try to influence reluctant nations.
The U.S. did not sign the Kyoto Protocol, which also did not include India and China. It is hoped all three nations will sign up to a Copenhagen pact.
Tags: Europe, European Union, Global Environmental Issues, International Agreements, London, United Kingdom, Western Europe
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September 8, 2009: 11:13 am
And good riddence. It is far too early for this kind of toothless pact anyway. Climate science is too early in its development to properly support the claims of doom and destruction. So I propose a new climate pact be started 5 years from now, perhaps by then climate science will have enough support and the public can buy in. But right now, the science does not support the claims. Wait five years. |
Klem