A top UN official on climate change said here Friday that any breakthrough to finalize a new international climate change treaty would be hardly achieved till the end of the two-year deadline.
"In this matter, nothing falls into place unless everything falls into place," Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Yvo de Boer said on the second day of the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS).
The official expected countries around the world to continue setting up their positions at various negotiating forums over the next 22 months.
Industrialized countries want major developing countries to take on mandatory greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction commitments after 2012, when the current international treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, expires.
Most developing countries have been stoutly resisting this, as they feel this would constrain their development, mainly in the fields of power generation and improving transport availability. They want industrialized countries to finance action against climate change instead, and also to provide necessary technology at low cost.
The U.S., the world's largest GHG emitter, has not signed the Kyoto Protocol and has been at the forefront of asking developing countries to take on emission reduction commitments.
Source: Xinhua
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