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Climate discord deepens further

EU lashes out at US, China for torpedoing talks

AFP, Brussels
Europe accused the United States and China of torpedoing the Copenhagen climate summit and vowed not to back down in its push for a tough, binding accord to avert the potential disaster of global wanning.
Post-summit recriminations deepened even among the select nations, including the United States, China, India and Brazil, that convened behind closed doors to stitch together a widely panned deal in the Danish capital at the weekend.
With scientists warning of the growing threat of drought, floods, storms and rising sea levels, UN chief Ban Ki-Moon acknowledged international disappointment but called the summit an "essential beginning".
Defying the ire of bitterly disappointed environmentalists, Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said his country had emerged "quite well In Copenhagen" by thwarting moves to set binding emissions targets.
However the European Union's Swedish presidency called the summit a "disaster".
Briefing reporters after a meeting of EU environment ministers, Swedish chairman Andreas Carlgren said "disappointment and frustration" was universal among the European nations.
"We are aware that the outcome of Copenhagen doesn't at all match the needs of (the) climate and of mankind," Sweden's environment minister saidTUesday.
"Many commented that it was obvious that (the) United States and China did not want more than wc achieved in Copenhagen and that's part of what wc have regretted here," Carlgren added.
The summit promised 100 billion dollars for poor nations that risk bearing the brunt of global warming's fallout, and set a commitment to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
But it failed to spell out the concrete cuts to greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say are essential to cap a planetary rise in temperatures.
Carlgren said the EU "will continue to strive for an agreement that is legally binding for all parties and sufficiently ambitious to limit global warming... below2.0 degrees".
But he warned against one proposal floated by Belgium among others for an EU "carbon tax" on imports from climate laggards, saying this would undermine whatever chance there remains for a global deal next year.
Britain singled out China for blocking a tougher deal in Copenhagen, but Beijing hit back on Tuesday by accusing the EU heavyweight of trying to drive a wedge between develop -ing countries.
Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said "such an attack was made in order to shirk the obligations of developed countries to their developing counterparts and foment discord among devel-opihgctftintries". ’
She told the state Xinhua news agency "the attempt was doomedtofail".
The powerful Opec cartel's top official said it was up to rich nations to fight climate change.
"The mess was created by the developed countries and they should pay for it," Opec's Libyan secretary general Abdullah El-Badri said in Angola.
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva blamed US President Barack Obama for the talks' failure, saying he offered "too little" in the way of emissionscuts.
Low-lying and flood-prone Bangladesh, one of the nations most vulnerable to climate change, said that it would seek 15 percent of the first 30 billion dollars committed at the Copenhagen summiL
Environment Minister Hasan Mahmud said Bangladesh's 150 million people made up around 15 percent of the approximately one billion people estimated to be affected by global warming, and deserved "per capita compensation".
The money would be used to build cyclone shelters, reinforce coastal embankments, develop saline resistant crops and for a programme of reforestation, Mahmud said.
One measure to emerge from Copenhagen was a programme to discourage deforestation and plant new trees as a way of capturing more of the industrial carbon dioxide that scientists say is trapping atmospheric heat.
Announcing a new initiative grouping the world's main rainforest countries, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said "efforts related to rainforests may lead to one-third of the emission cuts needed by 2020".