Copenhagen summit by Silvia Szarkova

The December 7 summit in Copenhagen about climate plan to support the 2013 Kyoto plan- the new global deal about the climate changes – is endangered. Some world seveloping states, sucha s China, are strictly about to refuse some of the restrictions. China, India, South Africa and Brazil want richer countries to do more for these topics- as they polute more, emit more and produce more. They want to see the developed countries to drawn limitating red lines where they themselves would accept them. All these are happening just five days before Copenhagen and they are refusing the core targets of the summit. The main key targets proposed by Danish host according to the ! European Union diplomats are these: halving global greenhouse gases by 2050, setting a 2020 deadline for a peak in world emissions, and limiting global warming to a maximum 2 degrees Celsius above pre- industrial times. "We cannot agree to the 50/50 (halving emissions by 2050) because it implies that ... the remaining (cuts) must be done by developing countries," said South Africa climate negotiator for this case Alf Wills. Unfortunatelly, United Nations cannot force counties to agree the statement legally, just as a part of political deal. But there is a lot of truth about what developing countries say. They point out that developed world is most to blame for greenhouse effect in the atmosphere now- after two centuries of industralization and burning fossil fuels, and wasting the energy. China- the world biggest emitter plans to cut emisions anyway- by 2020- by 45 percent per unit of economic output in compare to 2005 level. They are able to do this by improving energy! efficiency and getting more energy from renewable sources.
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