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UK-USA “secret” exposure, Copenhagen very hot
Is being held at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen on the 9th into the scandal, because the British “Guardian” on the 8th disclosed in a Western-led draft resolution, the draft gives not only the advanced industrial countries in the future climate change negotiations greater right to speak, but also weakened the United Nations in this issue exactly as intended, to abandon the “Kyoto Protocol” the principle of emission reduction. The draft leaked to the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen appeared sharply divided state that developing countries have been bullied, although the meeting is scheduled to close on the 18th, but I am afraid that the next 10 days, a long way off.

A secret treaty allows rich countries can emit

According to the British “Guardian”, a report, “the Danish proposal” the draft resolution, although only 13, but in fact is a “Western secret” because it is including the United Kingdom, the United States and Denmark, including a few a Western industrialized countries jointly drafted.

The draft turned its back on “Kyoto Protocol” provided by the developed countries take the lead in reducing emissions, developing countries without mandatory emission reductions of the spirit, that is “common but differentiated” principle.

According to the draft per-capita emissions standards set by developed countries can more than double the emissions of greenhouse gases, that is, from now until 2050, developed countries can be 2.67 tons per capita cumulative emissions of greenhouse gases, while developing countries per capita is only emission of 1.44 tons that can be accumulated. This is obviously limiting the process of industrialization in developing countries.

In addition, the draft will also deal with climate change funding allocations to power handed over to the Western countries led the World Bank. As a result, the developed countries will have a special rights, they can be developing countries, the “actual performance” to decide whether to provide financial assistance. The report said that in order to achieve their “wishful thinking”, developed countries have also decided to adopt the support of some so-called “the most vulnerable countries” to further divide and disintegrate the developing countries.

Rich hurriedly draft leaked “Fire”

As the host country, Denmark, the desire to want to stay in a climate-change negotiations and the “Kyoto Protocol” has the same meaning in the historical document. As a low-carbon technologies, one of the leading countries, Denmark and the United States and other developed countries have more common interests. Although the Danish share of secret negotiations, the text is just an informal text, and may ultimately not be thrown, but in any case, this is still to the Copenhagen negotiations and cast a thick shadow.

As the draft resolution is clearly in the “robbing the poor to the rich”, the draft content of an announcement immediately triggered by the strong dissatisfaction. Developing countries, diplomatic sources said that the negotiations had not yet been discussed, developed secretly autocratic, apparently in the United States President Barack Obama and other developed countries may force leaders meet next week to promote the agreement.

After exposure of the agreement, the U.S. representative tried to play down the importance of the document, saying that there are several versions of the draft of Denmark, which is only one, describing it as an informal “working” document, providing only a few countries for reference. Said British officials expected the next few days, the African Group, the island country, the less developed countries will put forward different versions.

Inequality in poor countries strongly criticized the program

But poor countries and environmental groups reacted strongly against them, “the Danish proposal” on behalf of poor and rich countries the important differences, so that the gap between the expansion and may even allow climate summit ran aground. For Danish officials explained their view, the draft Denmark simply should not exist. Hill, president of Oxfam International said: “The poor elephant is like ants in a crowded room, at any time could be squeezed out of climate talks.”

Following a closed-door consultations, the rotating presidency of the Group of 77, Sudan’s deputy permanent representative Diya Ping local time at 19:00 on the 8th (Beijing time at 2:00 on the 9th) held a press conference the first to launch an attack, denouncing Denmark the drafting of proposals for a political agreement was “threatening the success of the negotiation process Copenhagen significant prejudice” would endanger the summit. He accused the Danish Prime Minister, “choose to protect the rich”, as the host country failed to maintain a detached stance. He said: “At this moment, 77 of the Group will strive to promote the conference in Copenhagen to achieve results, we can not afford the risk of breakdown of the talks, but we will not sign an agreement of inequality, we can not allow 80% of the population in the world’s continue to bear the suffering and injustice. ”

WWF’s Carstensen accused person in charge of climate change, “the Danish proposal as” caring only to please the rich and powerful countries, not for the majority of national service, not just far-sighted program. In particular, he pointed out that the draft appears to deliberately reduced the “Kyoto Protocol” the importance of the existence of the file to highlight the Danish government “transparent” style.

Greenpeace issued a statement late the same day in the criticism that the main obstacle to the talks so far been reluctant developed countries in a formal commitment to a substantial reduction in the negotiating text, while for developing countries to provide long-term financial support. Denmark would need to work hard to remove the obstacles, instead of creating mistrust.

The Chinese delegation, deputy head of Development and Reform Commission of climate Secretary Su Wei said that China has not seen the draft and can not stand, but China will never accept the resolution detrimental to developing countries. India’s Environment Minister Ramesh said: “If there is no draft of Denmark (detrimental to developing countries) suggests that for us it is absolutely impossible.”

Expectations can not be too high for Copenhagen conference
A two-week-old Copenhagen climate conference of the problems encountered than previously thought to be more than one. While countries around the world in energy conservation and emission reduction to maintain the general direction of a consensus, but in a specific emission reduction programs, but it is all to play all calculations, and reached with a major legal and effective global agreement, for the moment is impossible to achieve a task.

Although China and the United States before the General Assembly have made an unprecedented commitment to reduce emissions, it is right in some important consensus reached on the issue of confidence has increased. However, differences between developed and developing countries have not been radical elimination. In the emission reduction issue, the commitments made by developed countries is far failed to meet the demands of developing countries, self-proclaimed standard-bearer of the EU’s medium-term emission reduction targets by 2020 is based on the 1990 emission reduction 20%, Japan compared to 25%, while the Obama administration is 4%, this target compared to developed countries, developing countries believe that the medium-term emissions reduction should be 25% -40% level far apart.

Now see, further concessions to the developed countries is very difficult to achieve the goal of the developed countries have pledged to have required a huge investment, but is seen as helping to achieve emission reduction targets, carbon tax impact of the global economy is enormous. It is estimated that a carbon tax, if carried out in accordance with charging 45 euros per tonne, the world’s GDP will be significantly reduced by about 12.9%. In the current circumstances, the large-scale carbon tax levy will enable businesses overwhelmed, and may even cause secondary depression. Therefore, developed countries committed themselves to achieve goals is not easy, in order to increase the commitment, I am afraid that incompetent.

In theory, the carbon tax collection and transfer payments, can make energy-saving environmental protection enterprises benefit, but the Government’s involvement in the meantime it will lead to efficiency, especially when such transfers may occur between countries, the problem even more . Developing countries insist that not do the specific quantified emission reduction commitments, compared with developed countries, anti-carbon tax to provide a new target of the attack, if the developing countries do not make concessions, developed countries are naturally more difficult to convince its own people.

Of course, developing countries also have their own considerations, to achieve “measurable, reportable and verifiable” mitigation commitments or actions, need a lot of capital investment, but also faced with strict international supervision, which for the developing countries themselves is unacceptable, while developed countries had committed to provide funding for developing countries, technical support, but the real action is not enough, so that the developing countries complain a lot. Today, in developed countries Shangju leg to stand on the case, even to make promises on this issue, the results probably are still empty promises for many developing countries are naturally more difficult to agree to abandon the “Kyoto Protocol” in the two-track system.

To reach a global climate of the framework agreement is to protect the planet we live are necessary, “the 2012″ This disaster, although only a film scene in the film show, but if the States can not proceed to address the climate crisis, there is no guarantee Such an imagination will not become a reality. But the reality of view, in order to in this climate conference in Copenhagen will be able to achieve a consistency of views and put into practice is indeed quite difficult. Meeting interwoven political, economic, legal, ethical and other aspects of the multi-game, between them can be said to be closely interlinked, in order to solve such a tangle, we must work together countries around the world to make significant concessions to the common so as to achieve, which seem to the present situation is hard to become a reality. Of course, even if the weather is really difficult for the General Assembly as a “climate”, but as long as countries around the world consensus on the issue of environmental protection can go further and also something that can not be considered a success, perhaps we should not climate conference as an end point, but more should be it is the environmental issue as a new starting point in order to finally reach in the future to protect the environment, protecting the planet in this ultimate goal.