US, other G8 members split on climate change
Differences between the United States and other Group of Eight (G8) industrialised countries were highlighted on the closing day of an environment ministers' conference in Potsdam near Berlin that ended on Saturday. German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said the US, by contrast with other members of the G8, did not want to participate in paying financial compensation to developing countries for progress in combating climate change. This affected countries like Brazil, where there had been considerable success in reforesting the Amazon rainforest, Gabriel said. Germany currently holds the G8 presidency.
A second point of conflict was the US refusal to back the Emissions Trading Scheme operating in Europe that allows companies in energy-intensive industries to trade carbon-dioxide emissions.
No comments:
Post a Comment