Green Options » UNFCCC http://greenoptions.com/tag/unfccc Posts tagged 'UNFCCC' Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:52:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Breakthrough at Bali: The US Signs On… At Last http://ecoworldly.com/2007/12/27/breakthrough-at-bali-the-us-signs-on-at-last/ http://ecoworldly.com/2007/12/27/breakthrough-at-bali-the-us-signs-on-at-last/#comments Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:52:04 +0000 Gavin Hudson http://ecoworldly.com/2007/12/27/breakthrough-at-bali-the-us-signs-on-at-last/ bali-convention-center.jpgThe US decade-long boycott of international progress on climate change has finally come to an end. For ten years, the United States has sent diplomats to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change Conferences (UNFCCC) with the single goal of preventing progress.

At each meeting, US delegates historically demand that the convention abandon mandatory carbon emission caps and then make a big show of walking out of the convention when this doesn’t seem likely.

In Bali, it was starting to look like more of the same. With the US demanding that it be given weaker emissions targets than the other 186 countries at the table, time was running out and another stalemate looked likely. The scene was tense and in extreme frustration Yvo de Boer, UN Climate Chief, left the table in tears.

But finally the US felt the heat. Under intense pressure from the international community and US citizens themselves, the United States agreed to move ahead with the rest of the world.

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