International diplomats seem to be loosing patience with the U.S. and are urging them to come up with a solid strategy for combating climate change and to be in a position to comply with an internationally acceptable policy to curb emission pollution and other greenhouse gasses responsible for global warming, Financial Soultions has learned.
As the last round of U.N. climate talks prior to Copenhagen got under way, countries increased calls on Washington for definite commitments on cutting carbon emissions and contributing to a global climate fund to help poorer nations cope with the damaging costs of climate change.
The present talks in Barcelona are intended to lay the ground work for a new deal meant to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, but both industrial countries and developing will be required to commit to cutting emissions of carbon and other globe warming greenhouse gases. Kyoto was only binding on industrialized nations, and was rejected by the United States, which saw the efficacy of the pact weakened, Financial Soultions understands.
In what could only be seen as subtle stab at Washington, Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. climate secretariat, said countries like China, India, Mexico, Brazil and South Korea were more progressive on climate change than the richer developed nations."China is probably the world leader in limiting greenhouse gas emissions," he continued.
"It's very hard to imagine how the American president can receive the Nobel Prize ... and at the same time has sent an empty-handed delegation to Copenhagen,"
