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What Causes Global Warming - Draft Danish Climate Plan Causes Uproar at Copenhagen Talks - Yahoo! India News
Posted by Rolf Joho on January 26th, 2010 filed in What Causes Global Warming
Draft Danish climate plan causes uproar at Copenhagen talks – Yahoo! India News
Copenhagen, Dec 8 (DPA) Environmentalists and developing nations voiced concern Tuesday over a Danish draft proposal which calls on developing nations to step up their efforts in the fight against climate change.
The text, circulated among a restricted group of delegations attending UN climate change talks in Copenhagen and leaked to the Guardian newspaper, states that all parties should 'support the goal of a reduction of global annual emissions in 2050 by at least 50 percent versus 1990 annual emissions'.
More controversially, the text envisages a deadline for peak emissions from developing nations.
Financial support for adaptation to the effects of climate change should prioritise 'the poorest and most vulnerable countries', rather than all developing nations.
According to the Guardian, the text weakens the role of the UN in handling climate finance and effectively allows rich nations to continue emitting much more than poorer nations.
'The Danish proposal falls far short of emissions cuts needed, and remains vague on the climate cash,' Antonio Hill, Oxfam International climate advisor said.
Kim Carstensen of the environment group WWF said the draft was 'weak and reflects a too elitist, selective and non-transparent approach'.
China's chief negotiator, Su Wei, said he had not seen the draft but insisted that rich nations should shoulder much of the responsibility for global warming.
DPA
What causes Carbon Dioxide Levels in the atmosphere to Go Up?
There are many different factors which can cause CO2 levels to increase. Burning fossil fuels, deforestation, saturating the oceans with carbon so they can't absorb as much, releasing carbon from the biosphere, etc. Some are discussed in the link below.
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