In an article in the Guardian, the British climate secretary raises questions about the structure and nature of future climate negotiations.
Michael von Bülow
Michael von Bülow
According to British climate minister Ed Miliband, the UN climate conference in Copenhagen was “a chaotic process dogged by procedural games”.“The procedural wrangling was, in fact, a cover for points of serious, substantive disagreement,” Miliband writes, referring to the fact that China, “despite the support of a coalition of developed and the vast majority of developing countries” vetoed 50 percent reductions in global emissions by 2050 and 80 percent reductions by developed countries.While welcoming the progress made during the last year’s climate negotiations and the “real outcomes” in the Copenhagen Accord – including finance for poor countries – Miliband raises the question of the structure and nature of future international climate negotiations.“The last two weeks at times have presented a farcical picture to the public. We cannot again allow negotiations on real points of substance to be hijacked in this way. We will need to have major reform of the UN body overseeing the negotiations and of the way the negotiations are conducted,” he writes. (Photo: Scanpix/Reuters)
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