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No deal on crucial issues as UN climate talks end
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 09 - 10 - 2009

The United States was heavily criticized
today at the U.N. climate talks in Bangkok for failing to
offer emission cuts or financing for developing countries _
both considered crucial to reaching a global warming pact
this year, according to AP.
The Bangkok talks ended just as it was announced that
President Barack Obama had won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize,
for among other things strengthening the U.S. role in
combatting climate change. U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer
said he hoped the award would spur progress when the U.S.
delegation arrives in Copenhagen in December for crucial
climate negotiations.
Obama is set to received his award in Oslo on Dec. 10 _
just days after the climate talks start.
«I hope this encourages him to come to Copenhagen with an
ambitious target,» de Boer said. «We need that.»
Earlier, the Americans took a beating from
environmentalists and poor nations for failing to commit to
deep emissions cuts and to provide financial aid to poorer
nations.
«The developing nations are justifiably angry at the lack
of progress, about the lack of credible offers by the
United States, by the European Union and by Japan,» said
Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union
of Concerned Scientists.
Jonathan Pershing, the head of the American delegation,
said the United States wanted a deal in Copenhagen but he
admitted «it would be extremely difficult for the U.S. to
commit to specific numbers in the absence of legislation
from Congress.»
In the U.S., which rejected the Kyoto Protocol because it
exempted countries such as India and China from
obligations, a bill that passed the House of
Representatives would reduce emissions by 17 percent from
2005 levels _ about 4 percent below 1990 levels _ by 2020.
The Senate is considering its own bill that would cut
emissions 20 percent.
Negotiations have been deadlocked for months and delegates
have raised doubts whether a new climate pact to rein in
greenhouse gases can be reached by the time world leaders
gather in Copenhagen. The pact would replace the Kyoto
Protocol, which expires in 2012.
Shayam Saran, India's special envoy for climate change,
told reporters said he was «dismayed» that developed
nations hadn't announced plans for deep emissions cuts at
the Bangkok meeting, as he had been expecting.
Most countries want a new climate pact that includes
measures limiting temperature increases to 2 degrees
Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial
levels, a level necessary to avoid the worst impacts of
climate change. But so far, there is no consensus on how to
reach that goal.


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