US, China, India
and South Africa reach deal
According
to a senior Obama administration official the United States,
China, India and South Africa have reached a "meaningful
agreement" on climate change Friday evening.
Associated Press - 18/12/2009 - A senior Obama administration
official says the US, China, India and South Africa have
reached a "meaningful agreement" on climate change.
The
official characterized the deal as a first step, but said
it was not enough to combat the threat of a warming planet.
Details
of the deal with these emerging economies were not immediately
clear.
The
agreement was reached Friday at the UN climate conference
in Copenhagen after a meeting among President Barack Obama
and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh and South African President Jacob Zuma.
The
official spoke on condition of anonymity because the agreement
had not yet been officially announced.
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New
draft for Copenhagen deal
In
a newly written draft named the “Copenhagen Accord”
a 2010-deadline for reaching a legally binding climate treaty
has been dropped, Reuters reported Friday afternoon.
Marianne Bom - 18/12/2009 - A new draft for a global climate
deal in Copenhagen has leaked to the press. The draft has
been named the “Copenhagen Accord”, Reuters
reports.
Earlier
it was reported by the media, that the heads of state and
government could not agree on what to call the text negotiated.
In
the new draft a reference to an end-2010 deadline for reaching
a legally binding treaty was removed, compared to a previous
draft, Reuters reports.
The
draft did still include a limit of a maximum two degree
Celsius global average temperature rise.
According
to Danish media, a probable scenario at the end of Friday
afternoon is that the world leaders continue negotiations
until the early evening.
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