Aquí nos lo venderán como el acuerdo del milenio, pero lo cierto es que la Unión europea ha tenido que poner la marcha atrás en sus pretensiones para Bali:
NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Dec 15 (Reuters) – The European Union dropped a key demand at climate talks in Bali on Saturday that guidelines for a new global climate pact should include a reference to tough 2020 emissions goals for rich countries.
“They have agreed not to insist on 25-40 but it will have a sentence refering to the IPCC report and its findings, which include the 25-40 target. To me it seems like a reasonable compromise,” said a senior delegate present at the talks, referring to cutting emissions by 25-40 percent by 2020.
The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change this year said global warming was unequivocal and laid out several emissions reductions targets, some stricter than others, to fight rising temperatures
No cabe duda que las razones para la postura USA son de peso:
The de facto negotiations are taking place between three major blocs—the European Union, United States and China. The European Union needs a climate agreement, and it hopes to control that agreement by making it an extension of the Kyoto Protocol process. Since the union already has placed carbon restrictions on its economy, effectively decreasing its global economic competitiveness, it has interests in seeing the rest of the world do the same, primarily by getting all major economies to commit to legally binding reductions of their carbon emissions.
Washington likely will pass a climate law soon, but it does not need an international treaty the way Europe does. Unlike the Europen Union, the United States is not facing dwindling energy supplies and energy dependence on a foreign neighbor (Russia). Because it does not necessarily have to come to an agreement, Washington is telling Europe that if Europe wants an agreement that includes the United States, it will be on U.S. terms. China, meanwhile, is trying to obtain as many concessions as the European Union and United States are willing to give in order to bring Beijing to the preferred negotiating table.
