Kyoto proponents
win first round
After
the climate conference agreed on the procedure for further
negotiations, the Danish hosts re-launched UN climate talks
on Thursday. A British newspaper calls it a "victory
for the developing world."
Rie Jerichow - 17/12/2009 - The Copenhagen negotiations
broke the deadlock on Thursday and are now moving forward
on a two-track basis that maintains the integrity of the
Kyoto protocol.
A"victory
for the developing world", writes British daily The
Guardian, concluding that rich nations have "abandoned
an attempt to kill off the Kyoto protocol in a last-gasp
effort to salvage a deal at the climate change summit in
Copenhagen".
Several
countries – including China – have expressed
ambitions to resuscitate the talks despite huge differences
over levels of emissions cuts, financing and monitoring,
the newspaper reports.
"We
are not giving up. The irony is that on substance we have
had considerable movement in the last few days. For the
talks to be in this state simply over matters of procedure
rather than substance is immensely disappointing,"
a UK official says, according to The Guardian.
"We
have lost a day and a half. I don't want to point fingers.
We must get talks back on a solid substantive track by the
time the world leaders meet tomorrow," the Indian environment
minister Jairam Ramesh said.
Algerian
envoy Kamel Djemouai, who speaks for 53 African nations,
is not so enthusiastic:
"No
deal is better than to have a bad deal, particularly for
Africa.... To get to a bad deal with our heads of state
here is quite difficult for anybody to accept here,"
the envoy says, according to Bloomberg.
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