here we go again
August 21st 2008 01:05
More climate talks are starting this week in Ghana, nothing much has changed, the developing nations need to agree with the developed nations, it is doubtful there will be a positive outcome until after the U.S. election and we get some constructive input from them.
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Climate negotiators reconvene this week in Ghana
By ARTHUR MAX – 3 hours ago
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Negotiators meet in Ghana this week to resume work on a new climate change treaty and discuss ways to prod developing countries to join the fight against global warming.
But the latest round of talks comes at an awkward moment, with the world's poor more worried about the immediate cost of food and fuel than the uncertain long-term effects of climate change.
The weeklong U.N. climate conference opens Thursday, with nearly 1,600 delegates and environmental experts from more than 150 countries in attendance, to work on an agreement to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases.
Scientists say the gases trap the earth's heat and already have begun to cause more severe tropical storms, harsher droughts in arid areas and melting ice packs in the Arctic.
U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer said it was significant the latest round of talks were being held in Ghana, where climate change already is being felt. Rainfall has decreased 20 percent in the last 30 years, he said on the eve of the conference, and rising sea levels threatens to swamp up to 385 square miles in the Volta Delta.
A report last year by the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted Africa will be among the worst hit continents if average global temperatures rise unchecked, with some 250 million people subjected to water shortages by 2020.
The negotiators have a December 2009 deadline to complete one of history's most complex international accords, designed to halve by mid-century the amount of carbon dioxide discharged into the atmosphere from transportation, industry and power generation.
The agreement would succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. At least two years is needed for ratification to ensure a seamless transition.
Under Kyoto, the burden of reducing emissions fell on 37 industrial countries that agreed to cut emissions by an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.
The United States, which refused to participate, called that accord unfair, questioning why powerful economies such as India and China were exempt from obligations. Those countries argue they were not responsible for global warming, and their first priority is to lift their people from poverty.
By ARTHUR MAX – 3 hours ago
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Negotiators meet in Ghana this week to resume work on a new climate change treaty and discuss ways to prod developing countries to join the fight against global warming.
The weeklong U.N. climate conference opens Thursday, with nearly 1,600 delegates and environmental experts from more than 150 countries in attendance, to work on an agreement to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases.
Scientists say the gases trap the earth's heat and already have begun to cause more severe tropical storms, harsher droughts in arid areas and melting ice packs in the Arctic.
U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer said it was significant the latest round of talks were being held in Ghana, where climate change already is being felt. Rainfall has decreased 20 percent in the last 30 years, he said on the eve of the conference, and rising sea levels threatens to swamp up to 385 square miles in the Volta Delta.
A report last year by the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted Africa will be among the worst hit continents if average global temperatures rise unchecked, with some 250 million people subjected to water shortages by 2020.
The agreement would succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. At least two years is needed for ratification to ensure a seamless transition.
Under Kyoto, the burden of reducing emissions fell on 37 industrial countries that agreed to cut emissions by an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.
The United States, which refused to participate, called that accord unfair, questioning why powerful economies such as India and China were exempt from obligations. Those countries argue they were not responsible for global warming, and their first priority is to lift their people from poverty.
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