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What was Paula Dobriansky thinking? We had them by the balls, if this is an accurate assessment.
| “ | Geopolitical Diary: Climate Negotiations Heat up in Bali
German
Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Thursday that if negotiators meeting
in Bali, Indonesia, for U.N. climate talks fail to reach a consensus agreement
on proceeding, "it would be meaningless" for U.S. President George W. Bush to
hold separate climate talks among the world's major greenhouse gas emitters.
Threatening not to send an EU official to the second meeting of Bush's parallel
talks in January is all the European Union can do at this point to prevent the
United States from taking the driver's seat in international climate negotiations.
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The de facto negotiations are taking place between three major blocs -- the
European Union, United States and China. The European Union needs a climate
agreement, and it hopes to control that agreement by making it an extension of
the Kyoto Protocol process. Since the union already has placed carbon
restrictions on its economy, effectively decreasing its global economic
competitiveness, it has interests in seeing the rest of the world do the same,
primarily by getting all major economies to commit to legally binding reductions
of their carbon emissions. MORE
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