Ottawa now wants Kyoto deal scrapped:
"OTTAWA — Canada will not support attempts by other countries to set deeper emission-reduction targets for the Kyoto Protocol's second phase, according to private instructions to Canadian negotiators in Bonn, Germany.
The instructions obtained by The Globe and Mail also show that Canada wants the climate-change accord phased out in favour of a separate, voluntary deal.
Ottawa's public submission to United Nations talks in Bonn on the Kyoto Protocol last week indicated Canada wants more lenient targets for itself. The private instructions from the Foreign Affairs Department to the Canadian delegation show Canada will also oppose the widely held view that targets in the second phase, which begins after 2012, should be tougher than those in the first phase.
“Canada will not support agreement on language in the work program that commits developed countries to more stringent targets in the future,” states a line contained in 22 pages of instructions.
The paper also shows that Canada is threatening to pull out of the UN climate-change process unless it includes the United States and all other major polluters.
The international community is in the middle of two weeks of talks in Germany on what Kyoto will look like in its second phase. Two sets of talks are taking place simultaneously. The first is based on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, a 1994 international treaty supported by 189 countries that involves voluntary commitments to address climate change.
The second talks are about the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 addition that significantly strengthens the convention with legally binding targets for reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. While 163 countries are in the protocol, only Canada and 34 other countries took on"
Sunday, May 21, 2006
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