Saturday, May 19, 2012

Gathering urges rethink on carbon emitters

Mail and Guardian: Divisions over who should lead the fight against climate change should be laid aside say ministers from some of the world's poorest countries. The vexed issue of which countries should bear the greatest responsibility for cutting greenhouse gas emissions has been a sticking point in international negotiations for two decades. Under the original settlement reached in 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit and formalised in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, some rapidly emerging economies such as China were left out...

URL: http://mg.co.za/article/2012-05-17-gathering-urges-rethink-on-carbon-emitters/

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