Europa aislada: se confirman los malos augurios (Act.)

AUSTRALIA, the US, Japan and Canada are resisting pressure from the UN and developing countries to adopt dramatic targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions as a major split emerges at the Bali conference on climate change.As business and industry warn of catastrophic economic effects if the ambit claims of 25-40 per cent emission cuts by 2020 are adopted at the conference, Kevin Rudd and his Climate Change Minister Penny Wong have declared Australia will not budge until it knows the full cost of adopting any targets.
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Australia, after its warm reception at Bali because of its ratification of the symbolically important Kyoto Protocol, is now getting a cooler welcome from the UN and environmental groups for not adopting the 25-40 per cent figures.Australia, always the recalcitrant under the Howard government, is now being lumped with developed doubters such as Japan, Canada and the US, which fear the cost of buying an emissions pig in a poke.This of course was always going to be the testing time for Labor’s climate change policy – the negotiations for a new global system after the Kyoto agreement expires.What it also shows – and what has surprised some people – is that the Labor Government’s outlook and attitude, which is correctly based on waiting for Ross Garnaut’s assessment of the economic cost of new targets, now appears little different to that of John Howard.During the election campaign, Rudd wanted to concentrate on the period to 2012, when ratifying Kyoto was a powerful totemic but largely hollow symbol, and never to talk about the era of the “new Kyoto”.

Rudd knew the negotiations with developing nations would be tough and could be an economic threat. That’s what he is doing now. Under the mask of being a Kyoto ratifier, he’s looking after Australia’s national interest. It’s just not what some green groups and Labor voters expected.
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Y dado que los europeos (con el Ministro alemán Gabriel a la cabeza) parecen haber decidido que, para que el planta sobreviva, hemos de reducir las emisiones de CO2 de aquí al 2050 en un 50%, la factura la vamos a pagar nosotros.

Más (permítanme que vaya actualizando este post, pues estoy seguro de que en España todo lo que lograrán leer es que Europa es la leche y lo malos, malísimos que son los USA):
Bali talks on the brink
US and EU still at loggerheads over emissions targets as UN officials voice fears that talks could collapse