Posted on 07/02/2009 1:02:57 PM PDT by FromLori
The chances of concluding a new global climate change pact remain dim unless China, India and Brazil make significant cuts in carbon dioxide emissions as well a senior Swedish climate change official said Thursday.
Lars-Erik Liljelund, special climate change adviser to the Swedish government, said cuts from richer countries in the 27-nation bloc or planned cuts in the United States will not be enough to meet aims to cut at least 25 percent of emission from 1990 levels.
"The problem at the moment is that if you take the contributions made so far by the United States, the European Union and Japan then we don't come up to that minus 25 percent," he told reporters. He said cuts from those richer countries and regions would only reach two-thirds of that minimum target.
"We will have serious problems if China, India, South Africa and Brazil" also do not pitch in, said Liljelund. "We are entering a climate crisis."
Those countries were exempt under the 1997 Kyoto protocol climate change pact which runs out in 2012.
Sweden, which holds the EU presidency, is in charge of leading the European position at U.N. climate change negotiations which aim to conclude a new, worldwide climate change pact in Copenhagen in December.
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said getting a new emissions cutting accord will be his top priority as EU president.
The new agreement -- a successor to the 1997 Kyoto protocol -- is controversial because key industrial polluters such as the United States and Europe want newly emerging economies to also help cut global gas emissions.
The overall aim of the successor treaty is to cut greenhouse gas emissions by between 25 and 40 percent from 1990 levels starting in 2012.
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China and India are the worst polluters and comprise over one-third of the world's population.
Using bad science from the UN. These people are total idiots, and will not use satellite data. The satellite data is more accurate, and that hot spot in the upper atmosphere is not there.
The true goal of the enviros.
To spike the economic growth in these countries, ensuring their enslavement to a life of drudgery - the thought of hundreds of millions of women with devices like dishwashers, washers and dryers scares the crap out of them.
These countries will be demonised and lied about as the largest polluter, when in actuality, the West, including Europe have PER CAPITA rates that dwarf those of the populations of China and India.
ITs pointless because it’s a lie no other reason has nothing to do with persuading others to believe a lie too. Once you use a post like this for your argument you already have lost.
everyone used to make fun of Bush as the lone leader who refuse to sign up to kyoto treaty because china/india refuse to do it
Yeah. A real snow job.
Surely this scam is about to fall apart, collapsing under the weight of contrary evidence from real science.
Not true! The whole point is to allow China, India, et al. to surpass western economies more quickly.
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