Climate Battle Moves to UN
Chaos of the Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen, manipulations and impositions registered and undefined conclusions have turned the United Nations as of today into a sure scene of new, fierce battles.
The vanguard of this crusade was established in the very same closing ceremony in the Danish capital when countries like Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Sudan (this last country in representation of the Group of 77) rejected the text presented as a culmination of the meeting.
The document was drafted without the participation of the majority of the 192 UN member countries and left undefined the most significant aspects regarding global warming and the countries' commitment to reduce their greenhouse emissions.
It also fails to reflect the financial assistance obligations that must be assumed by industrialized nations in favour of the underdeveloped in their struggle to confront climate change.
In opinion of observers in the UN headquarters, the Copenhagen gathering not even achieved a single political agreement on the matter, a variant promoted by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon after admitting the impossibility to achieve a legally binding pact.
The final text of Denmark, drafted at closed-door meetings under the pressure of US President Barack Obama, was approved through the "taking-note" trick, without the legal weight of an international treaty and amid express repudiation of several delegations.
For the moment, journalists accredited to the UN are looking forward to the first press conference to be given by Ban on Monday, in the wake of the Copenhagen failure, as the battleground of the fierce struggle against climate change is reinstalled at this UN headquarters in New York.
The vanguard of this crusade was established in the very same closing ceremony in the Danish capital when countries like Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Sudan (this last country in representation of the Group of 77) rejected the text presented as a culmination of the meeting.
The document was drafted without the participation of the majority of the 192 UN member countries and left undefined the most significant aspects regarding global warming and the countries' commitment to reduce their greenhouse emissions.
It also fails to reflect the financial assistance obligations that must be assumed by industrialized nations in favour of the underdeveloped in their struggle to confront climate change.
In opinion of observers in the UN headquarters, the Copenhagen gathering not even achieved a single political agreement on the matter, a variant promoted by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon after admitting the impossibility to achieve a legally binding pact.
The final text of Denmark, drafted at closed-door meetings under the pressure of US President Barack Obama, was approved through the "taking-note" trick, without the legal weight of an international treaty and amid express repudiation of several delegations.
For the moment, journalists accredited to the UN are looking forward to the first press conference to be given by Ban on Monday, in the wake of the Copenhagen failure, as the battleground of the fierce struggle against climate change is reinstalled at this UN headquarters in New York.
Source:
Prensa Latina
Date:
19/12/2009