While it is laudable to see leaders take climate change seriously, it is less so when they try to impose limitations and conditions on poorer countries which they themselves are not complying with or not likely to comply with.
The idea appears to be to reduce future pollution by having poorer countries sign up to lower growth and high investments.
If we want poorer countries to not follow our path and make the mistakes we have already made, we need to assist them, compensate them and make up for their losses.
The current road is not credible!
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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A European deal on cutting carbon emissions will be the first of a number of potentially painful steps for European Union nations in the fight to tackle global warming, Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has warned.
In an interview with the Financial Times ahead of Thursday’s EU summit – the first under this year’s German presidency – Ms Merkel said she wanted Europe to take a “pioneering lead” on meaningful green initiatives.
She said she expected a commitment by the bloc’s 27 member states to cut CO2 emissions by 20 per cent of their 1990 level by 2020 to be just the starting gun for a round of difficult negotiations that would “put Europe at the forefront internationally”.
“There will be further negotiations about national burden-sharing commitments. Kyoto was no different,” said the chancellor, who, as environment minister, was Germany’s lead negotiator for the Kyoto accord in the 1990s. “The necessity to combat climate change and to reduce our energy dependency, coupled with the fact that Kyoto is now running out, have concentrated minds.”
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