{"id":14916,"date":"2012-09-25T04:53:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T02:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/column-u-s-china-climate-standoff-returns-gerard-wynn\/"},"modified":"2012-09-25T04:53:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T02:53:32","slug":"column-u-s-china-climate-standoff-returns-gerard-wynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/column-u-s-china-climate-standoff-returns-gerard-wynn\/","title":{"rendered":"COLUMN-U.S., China climate standoff returns: Gerard Wynn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Gerard Wynn<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON, Sept 24<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Major developing countries have<br \/>\ndampened prospects for agreement on international carbon<br \/>\nemissions reduction targets by insisting on distinguishing<br \/>\nbetween the responsibilities of industrialised and emerging<br \/>\neconomies to act on climate change beyond 2020.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At a meeting in Durban, South Africa, last December,<br \/>\nministers agreed to negotiate a deal, for implementation from<br \/>\n2020, in which all countries participated, boosting prospects<br \/>\nfor agreement on medium-term climate targets.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Those U.N.-backed negotiations are the world&#8217;s main<br \/>\nmultilateral process for agreeing carbon cuts and can help guide<br \/>\nchoices in global energy consumption and ambition in emissions<br \/>\nmarkets. So far they have fallen short.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Durban meeting seemed to overcome a division that has<br \/>\nlong threatened U.S. participation.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The United States has complained that its main economic<br \/>\nrival, China, as well as other major emerging economies, have<br \/>\nescaped binding targets of any kind under the U.N. negotiations,<br \/>\nafter a Climate Convention in 1992 divided the responsibilities<br \/>\nof Annex 1 (developed) and non-Annex 1 (developing) countries.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last December, countries agreed a 2-page &#8220;Durban Platform<br \/>\nfor Enhanced Action&#8221; which appeared to sweep aside the<br \/>\ndichotomy, making no reference to formally divided<br \/>\nresponsibilities and so appearing to launch a fresh era in<br \/>\nnegotiations.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, on Friday, ministers from Brazil, South Africa,<br \/>\nIndia and China (dubbed &#8220;BASIC&#8221; countries, in U.N. climate<br \/>\njargon) said any deal must explicitly distinguish action between<br \/>\nindustrialised and emerging economies and by implication between<br \/>\nthe United States and China, the world&#8217;s top two emitters,<br \/>\nappearing to put negotiations back at least one year.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gerard Wynn LONDON, Sept 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Major developing countries have dampened prospects for agreement on international carbon emissions reduction targets by insisting on distinguishing between the responsibilities of industrialised and emerging economies to act on climate change beyond 2020. At a meeting in Durban, South Africa, last December, ministers agreed to negotiate a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-14916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}