China to blame for failure of Copenhagen climate deal, says British Secretary of Energy

[steven johnson]

Looks like the number one emitter of greenhouse gases doesn't want to slow down any dirty energy production.

China is to blame for the poor progress made during the Copenhagen climate change talks, Ed Miliband said today.

In the most direct attack on the country to date, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change accused China of hijacking the summit.

He claimed that Beijing “vetoed” moves to give legal force to the accord and blocked an agreement on global reductions in greenhouse emissions.

Its delegates even blocked attempts by advanced industrial countries to set a target of an 80 per cent reduction by 2050 for themselves, even though China is classified as a developing country.



China to blame for failure of Copenhagen climate deal, says Ed Miliband

[bridgit]

1. China isn't going to change a damn thing, they're just getting used to this billionaire...

plastic trinket, poison cat food, hydrogen sulfide/formaldehyde drywall & lead painted toy capitalism stuff

[The2ndWheel]

2. Hahahahahaha

Maybe if this failure wasn't hundreds, or thousands, of years in the making, from every corner of the globe, there might be a point in blaming China.

"Its delegates even blocked attempts by advanced industrial countries to set a target of an 80 per cent reduction by 2050 for themselves, even though China is classified as a developing country."

I think any country that wanted to set targets, could set targets. There really is no reason everyone has to do the same thing. It would probably be better if we didn't. Yet we have this urge to make everything the same.