“Europe warned at climate talks in Bonn on Wednesday that efforts to forge a new global pact to avert environmental disaster were in danger of floundering, and some pointed fingers at China.“
Yeah, I’m actually quite good with that.
Nine days into talks meant to set the stage for a United Nations gathering in Qatar in December where countries must adopt an amendment to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, negotiators complained that procedural bickering was quashing progress hopes.
With only two days left in this negotiating round, the parties have failed to appoint a chairperson or agree on an agenda for a newly established body dubbed the ADP tasked with overseeing the drafting of a new pact by 2015.
“If this slow pace of negotiations continues … it poses the risk of unraveling the Durban package,” Danish chief negotiator Christian Pilgaard Zinglersen warned on behalf of the European Union.
He was referring to an agreement reached in South Africa last year to bind all countries under a new pact from 2020 to curb Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions, not just developed nations as is the case now.
Pilgaard told the Bonn gathering that some parties, which he did not name, wanted to rehash issues that have already been settled.
“We are very concerned that the spirit of cooperation that prevailed in Durban has not carried over into this session,” the diplomat said.
The horror of it all. What to do now without EU’s leadership on collecting taxes on trace gases.
EU is an economic disaster area.
And on top of that they want Even more economic selfmade disaster?
Well, a side note. A global pact would constitute globalism. Such a globalism is oppressive because you can’t flee laws by emigration. How many of those who call themselves anti-globalist who are often found demonstrating at G8 summits, are opposed to that pact for the reason I have? I guess nearly no one.