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Developing nations stage walkout at climate talks in Copenhagen | The Copenhagen climate summit was headed towards a collapse on Monday with the G-77 the group representing 130 developing countries deciding to stage a walkout from negotiations en masse here. The G-77 opted for a walkout due to its concern that the existing Kyoto protocol would be abandoned. Australia's Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said that organisers were trying to fix the problem and coax back the developing world. Many countries at the UN climate summit want a brand new treaty to tackle
climate change, but the developing world wants the Kyoto protocol to continue
as well. The protocol forces rich countries to reduce or limit their greenhouse
gas emissions. Senator Wong said the walkout was "most unfortunate''. "It is regrettable
that we appear to have reached a gridlock on process,'' news.com.au quoted Wong
as saying. ''(This) is not a time to play procedural games,'' Wong added. Senator
Wong said she and others were working hard to get the problem resolved, but Wong
didn't not give any indication of when that might happen. She did not support
the developing countries' focus on the need to commit now to a future for the
Kyoto protocol. "An extension only of the Kyoto Protocol is not going to achieve
the environmental outcome the world needs,'' Senator Wong said. It is understood
that the developing countries walked out of the working groups at the summit today,
and have refused to take part in special meetings which have been organised to
tackle the biggest obstacles in the negotiations. A plenary session, for all countries,
has not started as planned because of the breakdown. Australia does not want the
Kyoto Protocol to be the only vehicle to tackle climate change because it does
not include the US, nor major developing countries like China and India, the news.com.au
report stated. Meanwhile, the Climate Change summit here seemed headed for a
collapse,
with developing countries rallying around Africa, who decided to pull out of the
talks on Monday blaming the developed countries for flouting the Kyoto protocol.
Hardening its stand just like other developing nations who have decided to rally
behind Africa, which pulled out of the talks today, India has also refused to
compromise. A Times Now report quoted Indian Environment minister Jairam Ramesh
saying: "India won't compromise on UNFCC, Kyoto protocol, and Ball plan." One
of the two negotiating tracks at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen broke up in
drama and confusion today when the Africa group of countries followed by other
developing countries accused the chair of the conference of trying to "kill" the
Kyoto protocol. They were also objecting to what they characterised as efforts
to sideline the poorest countries. The crisis was then exacerbated after Australia
said that rich countries should suspend talks about emission cuts, stated a Guardian
report on Monday. The UN and the chair of the conference, Denmark, tried hurriedly
to repair the rifts as ministers began to arrive in Copenhagen for the high level
political section of the talks. But after the talks were suspended for two hours,
observers said that it looked increasingly unlikely that an ambitious deal would
now be negotiated by Friday, the report further stated. |
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