The commitment the UN wants to reach in the December summit in Copenhagen to alleviate the climate change has found a pebble in its shoe: the United States.
The refusal of the US delegation in the recently closed Barcelona conference to come out with specific details regarding reduction of greenhouse effect gases turned into an utopia the likelihood of a future binding agreement on this key issue.Washington's negotiator Jonathan Pershing said in the Barcelona meet that his country is not prepared to offer a specific figure of carbon dioxide reduction as demanded by the international community.
He even went further in his statements when he pointed out that the administration of President Barack Obama is not prepared to support an agreement that does not commit developing nations regarding C02 emissions.
The US position contrasted, however, with the position taken by the European Union (EU) which made the commitment to use all possible means to obtain a legally binding accord.
The EU representative Artur Runge-Metzger ratified the European decision to reduce by 30 percent its contaminating gases by 2020. He considers that a future agreement should call for ambitious reductions of gases by rich countries, including the United States.
In an attempt to avoid a total failure of the five day meeting in Barcelona, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Conventions for Climate Change, Yvo de Boer, said that governments might reach an agreement.
However, he ruled out that an international treaty can be achieved in Denmark on thi complex issue and forsaw that an agreement with all items required would take from three months to one year to be finalized.
Copenhagen will be a point of inflection, De Boer said, adding that he expected the attendance of at least 40 Head of Governemtn and State to this summit that was expected to achieve a text substituting the Kyoto Protocol.
He insisted, also that 10 billion dollars need to be approved for immediate aid to underdeveloped nations to allow them to control their emissions and improve their strategies of adaptation.
Industrial nations intend us to pay twice as must to reduce our emissions and suffer the consequence of a climate change already felt in the third world, accused the Group of 77 (G-77)
G-77 that groups African, Latin American and Asian nations also regret the lack of commitment of the rich and asked how much more can poor nations reduce their emissions of greenhouse effect if they don´t even have electric light.
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