European nations will boycott U.S.-led climate talks next month unless Washington accepts a range of numbers for negotiating deep reductions of global-warming emissions, Germany’s environment minister said Thursday.
“No result in Bali means no Major Economies Meeting,” said Sigmar Gabriel, a top EU environment official, referring to a series of separate climate talks initiated by President Bush in September.
The U.S. invited 16 other “major economies” to discuss a possible program of nationally determined, voluntary cutbacks in greenhouse gas emissions, as opposed to the binding targets favored by the EU and others now meeting in Bali.
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NUSA DUA, INDONESIA—As the United Nations climate conference here was drawing to its conclusion, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday acknowledged that the United States’ goal of deleting specific emission reduction guidelines from a draft agreement had succeeded.
“Realistically, it may be too ambitious if delegations would be expected to be able to agree on targets of greenhouse gas emission reductions” here in Bali, he told reporters. “Practically speaking, this will have to be negotiated down the road.”
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Gleichzeitig machte der Minister auch deutlich, dass die EU dem Bali-Schlussdokument auch zustimmen werde, wenn sie sich in der Frage der Ziele nicht durchsetze und nur Verhandlungen über ein neues Klimaabkommen gestartet würden. Er fände dies allerdings zu wenig und werde dann das Dokument nicht öffentlich verteidigen, sagte der Minister.
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,523080,00.html