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China Says Climate Talks Stall on Lack of Emission Commitments
2010-10-08 05:12:49.429 GMT
By Stuart Biggs
Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- China said a failure by developed
nations to honor their commitments to cut greenhouse gas
emissions is hindering progress in talks in Tianjin aimed at
reaching an agreement to mitigate climate change.
Negotiations between delegates from about 175
governments in Tianjin, northern China, are being held up as
the host country declined to discuss the legal framework for
a second set of emissions reductions under the Kyoto Protocol
after the first expires in 2012.
China is boycotting the talks because developed
countries listed in the Protocol are trying to add a global
target rather than discuss their individual commitments, said
Huang Huikang, China's special representative for climate
change negotiations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"Our intervention is not to block discussions of the
Kyoto Protocol group, we just want to keep the group's
discussion the right way," Huang told reporters today. "The
key issue is the lack of substantive progress on the
developed countries' side."
China, the most populous country and biggest emitter of
greenhouse gases, is hosted a meeting of the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change for the first time.
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--Editors: Peter Langan
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Stuart Biggs in Tokyo at +81-3-3201-3093 or
sbiggs3@bloomberg.net.
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Reed Landberg at +44-20-7330-7862 or
landberg@bloomberg.net.
