{"id":6045,"date":"2011-12-13T00:11:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T22:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/analysis-durban-deal-may-do-little-to-cool-heating-planet\/"},"modified":"2011-12-13T00:11:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T22:11:11","slug":"analysis-durban-deal-may-do-little-to-cool-heating-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/analysis-durban-deal-may-do-little-to-cool-heating-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"ANALYSIS-Durban deal may do little to cool heating planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Jon Herskovitz<\/span><\/p>\n

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DURBAN<\/span> Dec 12 (Reuters) – The world is forecast to
\ngrow hotter, sea levels to rise, intense weather to wreak even
\nmore destruction and the new deal struck by governments in
\nDurban to cut greenhouse gas emissions will do little to lessen
\nthat damage.<\/p>\n

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Climate data from U.N. agencies indicates that the
\naccumulation of heat-trapping gases will rise to such levels
\nover the next eight years – before the newly agreed regime of
\ncuts in emissions is supposed to be in place – that the planet
\nis on a collision course with permanent environmental change.<\/p>\n

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Countries around the globe agreed on Sunday to forge a new
\ndeal forcing all the biggest polluters for the first time to
\nlimit greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. But critics said the
\nplan was too timid to slow global warming.<\/p>\n

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For a reduction plan to have a major impact, analysts say,
\nthe world’s largest emitter, China, needs to be weaned from
\ncoal-intensive power sources that are choking the planet with
\ncarbon dioxide (CO2) and developed countries must spend heavily
\nto change the mix of sources from which they draw their energy.<\/p>\n

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But they see little political will to implement these costly
\nplans and argue that the U.N. process showed, in two weeks of
\ntalks in the South African city of Durban, that it is bloated,
\nbroken and largely incapable of effecting sweeping change.<\/p>\n

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“The challenge is that we begin the talks from the lowest
\ncommon denominator of every party’s aspirations,” said Jennifer
\nHaverkamp, director of the international climate program for
\nEnvironmental Defense Fund, a U.S. group which campaigns against
\npollution.<\/p>\n

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“For this effort to be successful, countries need to be
\nambitious in their commitments and to refuse to use these
\nnegotiations as just another stalling tool,” she said.<\/p>\n

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Domestic political constraints make it unlikely that pledges
\nin Durban for more green projects in the developed world and
\nstepped up aid for developing countries will come to fruition
\ngiven problems for government funding in Europe, the United
\nStates and Japan.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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