EU threatens to boycott US climate talks

[babylonsister]

EU threatens to boycott US climate talks

By CHRIS BRUMMITT, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 46 minutes ago

BALI, Indonesia - European nations on Thursday threatened to boycott U.S.-led climate talks next month unless Washington accepts a range of numbers for negotiating deep reductions of global-warming emissions at a U.N. conference here.

The move raised the stakes as delegates from nearly 190 nations entered final-hour talks on Bali aimed at launching negotiations for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.

The United States, Japan and several other governments refuse to accept language in a draft document suggesting that industrialized nations consider cutting emissions by 25 percent to 40 percent by 2020, saying specific targets would limit the scope of future talks.

The European Union and others say the figures reflect the measures scientists say are needed to rein in global warming and head off predictions of rising sea levels, worsening floods and droughts, and the extinction of plant and animal species.

"No result in Bali means no Major Economies Meeting," said Sigmar Gabriel, top EU environment official from Germany, referring to a series of separate climate talks initiated by President Bush in September. "This is the clear position of the EU. I do not know what we should talk about if there is no target."

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[malaise]

1. Bravo EU

Ignore Bush the war criminal and enabler of the planet's destruction.

[hatrack]

2. Good. That seems to be the only thing that might get the Chimp's attention

Public humiliation, cancellations, snubs, diplomatic fiascos, walkouts.

Of course, he won't actually DO anything even if the EU is a no-show, but they shouldn't come anyway. Enough of the fucking dog-and-pony shows, and enough of those who enable them.

[Angela Shelley]

3. They are absolutely right!