{"id":109588,"date":"2009-12-11T07:30:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T12:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenerideal.com\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2009-12-11T07:30:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T12:30:46","slug":"copenhagen-climate-conference-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/109588","title":{"rendered":"Copenhagen Climate Conference: Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA war on drafts has broken out at the UN Climate Change conference, on a day which also say the European Union (EU) commit $3 billion US to climate fund, the G-77 chief negotiator of walk out of talks in anger and a divisive split over a proposed the two degree target.
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\nAs the Danish draft continues to make it round, another draft has surfaced firmly putting demands on rich countries. In November, during a closed door meeting in Beijing, India, China, South Africa and Brazil, the four major emerging economies finalised an 11-page draft- the \u201cCopenhagen Accord\u201d. It proposes a \u201cbinding\u201d amendment to the Kyoto Protocol calling for rich countries to reduce their carbon emissions by more than 40 percent compared to 1990 levels.
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\nLed by Beijing, the initiative was conceived as a rebuttal by developing countries to the \u201cCopenhagen Agreement\u201d allegedly written by the conference\u2019s host country.
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\nAccording to AFP, the \u201cCopenhagen Accord\u201d, posted on the website of French daily newspaper Le Monde, embraces the objective of limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels. It calls on rich countries, committed to CO2 reductions of at least five percent by 2012, to \u201cmultiply by eight\u201d and points out that reductions should be made \u201cmainly through domestic measures\u201d and not through the purchase of so-called \u201coffsets\u201d outside their borders.
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\nG-77 chief negotiator walks out of talks<\/strong>
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\nLumumba Stanislaus Di-Aiping, chief negotiator for 130 developing countries walked out of a consultation meeting with UN representatives in anger, claiming the climate change conference will probably be wrecked by the \u201cbad intentions of some people\u201d.
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\n\u201cThings are not going well\u201d a normally tight lipped Di-Aiping said to Danish TV.
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\nIn another development Di-Aiping called on US President Barack Obama stating it would be \u201cembarrassing for the US not to be part of a solution to save humanity\u201d. The \u201cUSA is the worlds largest emitter historically and per capita. A reduction of four percent compared to 1990 levels will not help save the world. We ask the USA to join the Kyoto Protocol and take on commitments comparable to Annex 1 countries (industrialized countries)\u201d said Di-Aiping.
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\n\u201cThis is a challenge that President Barack Obama needs to rise as a Nobel Prize winner and as an advocate of a multilateral global society. We know he is proud to be a part of that community through his family relations in Africa\u201d he added.
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\nThe Two Degree Split<\/strong>
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\nAnalysis from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shows that a temperature increase of two degrees Celsius can be said to be a threshold value. Above this value the effects of climate change would probably be more difficult to manage and would compound at a quicker pace. Now, more than 100 nations back even tougher climate goals.
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\nThe 1.5 Celsius goal would require cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by rich nations of at least 45 percent from 1990 levels by 2020.
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\nMore popular than Tiger Woods<\/strong>
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\n\u201cCopenhagen\u201d is now the number one search query on the world\u2019s leading internet search engine, thwarting US golfer Tiger Woods from the top spot.<\/p>\n

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