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Copenhagen conference in 'disarray'
* From: NewsCore
* December 09, 2009 1:55AM
Delegates preparing for the next round of talks at UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen / File
* "Leaked climate documents enrage delegates"
* Greater power for rich countries - reports
* Hands climate change finance to World Bank
TALKS at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen have broken down over leaked documents indicating that wealthier nations would be given more power in future climate change negotiations.
The documents seem to allow a handful of rich countries to have larger emissions and more control over future talks within a "circle of commitment" and have enraged delegates from developing countries.
The US, UK, and Denmark are among the countries included in the so-called "Danish text."
The document also sets unequal limits on per capita carbon emissions for developed and developing countries in 2050; meaning that people in rich countries would be permitted to emit nearly twice as much under the proposals.
The secret draft agreement worked on by a group of individuals known as "the circle of commitment" - understood to include the UK, US and Denmark - has only been shown to a handful of countries since it was finalised this week, The Guardian reports.
The agreement, leaked to the paper, is a departure from the Kyoto protocol's principle that rich nations, which have emitted the bulk of the CO2, should take on firm and binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gases, while poorer nations were not compelled to act.
The draft hands effective control of climate change finance to the World Bank; would abandon the Kyoto protocol - the only legally binding treaty that the world has on emissions reductions; and would make any money to help poor countries adapt to climate change dependent on them taking a range of actions.
The document was described last night by one senior diplomat as "a very dangerous document for developing countries. It is a fundamental reworking of the UN balance of obligations. It is to be superimposed without discussion on the talks", the paper reports.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will attend the summit's second week, as will US President Barack Obama.
The Guardian has not stated whether Australia is among the countries included in the "Danish text."
http://www.news.com.au/world/copenhagen-conference-in-disarray/story-e6frfkyi-1225808437312
* From: NewsCore
* December 09, 2009 1:55AM
Delegates preparing for the next round of talks at UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen / File
* "Leaked climate documents enrage delegates"
* Greater power for rich countries - reports
* Hands climate change finance to World Bank
TALKS at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen have broken down over leaked documents indicating that wealthier nations would be given more power in future climate change negotiations.
The documents seem to allow a handful of rich countries to have larger emissions and more control over future talks within a "circle of commitment" and have enraged delegates from developing countries.
The US, UK, and Denmark are among the countries included in the so-called "Danish text."
The document also sets unequal limits on per capita carbon emissions for developed and developing countries in 2050; meaning that people in rich countries would be permitted to emit nearly twice as much under the proposals.
The secret draft agreement worked on by a group of individuals known as "the circle of commitment" - understood to include the UK, US and Denmark - has only been shown to a handful of countries since it was finalised this week, The Guardian reports.
The agreement, leaked to the paper, is a departure from the Kyoto protocol's principle that rich nations, which have emitted the bulk of the CO2, should take on firm and binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gases, while poorer nations were not compelled to act.
The draft hands effective control of climate change finance to the World Bank; would abandon the Kyoto protocol - the only legally binding treaty that the world has on emissions reductions; and would make any money to help poor countries adapt to climate change dependent on them taking a range of actions.
The document was described last night by one senior diplomat as "a very dangerous document for developing countries. It is a fundamental reworking of the UN balance of obligations. It is to be superimposed without discussion on the talks", the paper reports.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will attend the summit's second week, as will US President Barack Obama.
The Guardian has not stated whether Australia is among the countries included in the "Danish text."
http://www.news.com.au/world/copenhagen-conference-in-disarray/story-e6frfkyi-1225808437312
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