Nusa Dua, Indonesia (Platts)--12Dec2007
The US expects all reference to an emissions reduction target to be taken
out of the latest draft of a baseline framework to guide negotiations for a
post-2012 climate change agreement, senior Bali talks officials told Platts.
When asked Wednesday whether the third draft text would include any
reference to a 25-40% emissions reductions target, Paula Dobriansky, Under
Secretary, Democracy and Global Affairs and head of the US delegation to the
UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, said: "I hope not."
Harlan Watson, the US' chief climate change negotiator agreed. "We hope
not," he said. Dobriansky added that there were quite a few nations who
supported the US stance.
She expressed surprise when told that both the G77 developing nations
group and EU had said Wednesday they were opposed to the removal of an
emissions target range the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believes
is the level of emissions cuts required to prevent average global temperatures
from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius.
Dobriansky also said the US delegation expects technology transfer to be
brought back into the negotiations. The issue had been earlier closed out and
was not scheduled to be discussed again until talks in June 2008.
The G77+China's Chairman, Pakistan's Munir Akram, said Wednesday that a
technology transfer agreement had failed over one word, the G77 preferring the
word "facility" while the US preferred "program."
"We're working on that right now," Dobriansky told Platts.
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