After almost two weeks of negotiations, this years United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNCCC) is soon going to end, Friday being scheduled as the last day of the talks, with an extention until Saturday being possible if agreement can not be reached beforehand. While the head of the UNFCCC Sekretariat , Yvo de Boer, stressed from the onset that actual targets for emission reductions were not to be expected to be agreed on, the inclusion of a target frame for industrialized nations is being debated after all. However, his stated goal of deciding on a roadmap for negotiations, which he said needed to adress the matter of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions reductions after 2012, and would have to be concluded by 2009, is not yet achieved, there being disagreement on a matter of points. But a bigger point of contestion is that the EU and the vast majority of the 190 nations participating in the conference want to set a target of a 25-40\% cut in GHG emissions. The U.S., along with Canada and Japan, are refusing to agree to any targets at this point.
After almost two weeks of negotiations, this years United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNCCC) is soon going to end, Friday being scheduled as the last day of the talks, with an extension until Saturday being possible if agreement can not be reached beforehand. While the head of the UNFCCC Secretariat , Yvo de Boer, stressed from the onset that actual targets for emission reductions were not to be expected to be agreed on, the inclusion of a target frame for industrialized nations is being debated after all. However, his stated goal of deciding on a roadmap for negotiations, which he said needed to address the matter of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions reductions after 2012, and would have to be concluded by 2009, is not yet achieved, there being disagreement on a matter of points. But a bigger point of contention is that the EU and the vast majority of the 190 nations participating in the conference want to set a target of a 25-40\% cut in GHG emissions. The U.S., along with Canada and Japan, are refusing to agree to any targets at this point.
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