UN conference expected to reach agreement on watered-down climate deal
"There is a wrecking crew here in Bali, led by the Bush administration and its minions. Those minions continue to be the governments of Canada, Japan, Saudi Arabia and others," said Jennifer Morgan, of the Climate Change Network.A draft of the final report to a UN climate conference suggests Canada is about to get its wish of watered-down targets from the ones proposed by Europe and poorer countries. The 11th-hour draft strips out any reference to tough global emissions targets for 2020, which were blocked by several wealthy countries, including the United States, Japan, Russia and Canada. The draft, a copy of which was obtained by The Canadian Press, leaves in a more opaque statement that global emissions should "peak" within 10 or 15 years, and must fall to well under half of 2000 levels by 2050. The reference to 2000 will come as a letdown to many Kyoto signatories - especially the Europeans.
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