by Brad Johnson.

It’s just a guidepost, guys. No need to panic. Cross-posted from ThinkProgress Green.

China limits commitments

This week, China’s top climate envoy said that the nation would be open to signing a formal treaty limiting emissions after 2020—but laid down conditions for doing so that are unlikely ever to be met.

Xie Zhenhua, the head of the Chinese delegation, has refused to confirm that China would, as he had suggested, accept a binding international obligation to slow the growth in its emissions.

U.S. stance on climate risks increasingly absurd

The limit of 2 degrees C [3.6 degrees F] warming above pre-industrial levels is just a “guidepost,” U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern told reporters.

350.org’s Jamie Henn writes that “the U.S. has taken on an even more
insidious role by pushing a proposal that the international community
adopt a ‘mandate’ to negotiate a new climate treaty that will take effect in 2020,”
and “the 2020 timeline seems to be gaining traction here at the talks,”
even though it “isn’t just a delay, it’s a death sentence.”

The mandate for a climate treaty that goes into effect in 2020 was actually suggested by the European Union’s top climate diplomat, Connie Hedegaard, before the Durban talks even began.

Avaaz.org is asking Brazil, China, and the European Union to “save and strengthen the Kyoto Protocol and work together to agree
on a more ambitious legally binding deal no later than 2015.”

“A legally binding agreement after 2020 would be disastrous for humanity; global temperature will rise at least 4 degrees-plus,” Bangladesh Environment Minister Hasan Mahmud said in an interview.

A U.S. climate official admitted that it is not at all clear whether current targets will be enough to keep the world below 2 degrees C of warming, but that the pledges made in Cancun were “as far as we could go.”

“I think the U.S. position is becoming more and more paranoiac,”
said Pratap Pandey from the Center of Science and Environment in Delhi.
“It’s fine to resort to rhetoric, but it’s pathetic to take recourse to
nonsense.”

“We have not won enough under 2 1/2 years of Obama,” European
Parliament environment committee chair Jo Leinen said. “So if the
next would be a Tea Party president and Congress, the world cannot wait.”

Alex Lenferna: “In order to deviate from the Cancun Accords pathway
towards a 2 degree (never mind 1.5 degree) target, the effort that would
have to be taken from 2020, as opposed to if we implemented the new
treaty on 2015, would be monumental, and, quite frankly, politically impossible.”

Green Climate Fund framework moves forward

South Africa, which heads the current round of climate talks in
Durban, has, after informal consultations, taken the view that the climate
finance mechanism, or Green Climate Fund, will work
under the oversight “and function under the guidance” of the
Conference of Parties, or the general assembly of all the countries.

“The U.S. actions to throw obstacles in the way of any discussion on sources of finance for the Green Climate Fund risks condemning the fund to kick off as an empty shell,” said David Waskow, policy adviser for Oxfam.

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Durban dispatch: Fear of Kyoto commitment

na Brad Johnson.

Ni tu guidepost, guys. Hakuna haja ya hofu Msalaba-posted kutoka. Green ThinkProgress .

China mipaka ya ahadi

Wiki hii, China juu ya hali ya hewa mjumbe alisema kuwa taifa itakuwa wazi kwa kusaini mkataba rasmi kupunguza uzalishaji wa gesi baada ya 2020-lakini aliyatoa hali kwa kufanya hivyo kwamba ni uwezekano wa milele kuwa alikutana.

Xie Zhenhua, mkuu wa ujumbe wa China, imekataa kuthibitisha kwamba China itakuwa kama alivyokuwa alipendekeza, kukubali kisheria ya kimataifa wajibu wa kupunguza kasi ya ukuaji katika uzalishaji wake.

Marekani msimamo juu ya hali ya hewa kuna hatari inazidi kusikitisha

kikomo ya nyuzi 2 C [3.6 digrii F] inapopata joto zaidi ya viwango vya kabla ya viwanda ni "guidepost," Marekani ya hali ya hewa mjumbe Todd Stern aliwaambia waandishi wa habari .

350.org ya Jamie Henn anaandika kwamba "Marekani imechukua juu zaidi hata
insidious jukumu kwa kusukuma pendekezo kuwa jumuiya ya kimataifa
kupitisha 'mamlaka' kujadili mpya ya hali ya hewa mkataba ambayo kuchukua athari katika mwaka 2020, "
na "ratiba ya 2020 inaonekana kuwa kupata traction hapa katika mazungumzo hayo,"
hata kama ni "siyo tu kuchelewa, ni adhabu ya kifo."

mamlaka ya hali ya hewa kwa ajili ya mkataba kwamba huenda katika athari katika 2020 ilikuwa kweli alipendekeza kwa mwanadiplomasia wa Umoja wa Ulaya juu ya hali ya hewa, Connie HEDEGAARD, kabla ya mazungumzo ya Durban hata kuanza.

Avaaz.org ni kuuliza Brazil, China, na Umoja wa Ulaya na "kuokoa na kuimarisha Itifaki ya Kyoto na kufanya kazi pamoja kwa kukubaliana
juu zaidi kabambe mpango kisheria kabla ya mwaka 2015. "

"Makubaliano ya kisheria baada ya 2020 itakuwa ni janga kwa binadamu; joto duniani watafufuliwa angalau digrii 4-plus," Bangladesh Waziri wa Mazingira Hasan Mahmud alisema katika mahojiano.

Ya hali ya hewa wa serikali ya Marekani alikiri kwamba si wakati wote wazi kama malengo ya sasa itakuwa kutosha kutunza dunia chini ya nyuzi 2 C ya ongezeko la joto, lakini kwamba ahadi kufanywa katika Cancun walikuwa "mbali kama tunaweza kwenda."

"Nadhani msimamo wa Marekani ni kuwa zaidi na zaidi paranoiac,"
alisema Pratap Pandey kutoka Kituo cha Sayansi na Mazingira katika Delhi.
"Ni faini ya mapumziko kwa maneno matupu, lakini ni pathetic kuchukua kukimbilia
yasiyo na msingi. "

"Sisi mshindi wa kutosha chini ya miaka 2 1/2 ya Obama," Ulaya
Bunge mazingira ya kamati mwenyekiti Jo Leinen alisema . "Kwa hiyo kama
pili itakuwa Tea Party rais na Congress, dunia hawezi kusubiri. "

Alex Lenferna : "Ili kinyume na makubaliano ya Cancun njia
kuelekea shahada 2 (kamwe akili 1.5 shahada) lengo, jitihada hiyo ingekuwa
kuwa na kuchukuliwa kutoka mwaka 2020, kinyume na kama sisi kutekelezwa mpya
juu ya mkataba wa mwaka 2015, itakuwa ni kubwa, na, kusema ukweli kabisa, kisiasa haiwezekani. "

Green ya Hali ya Hewa Mfuko wa mfumo hatua mbele

Afrika Kusini, ambayo anaongoza duru ya sasa ya mazungumzo ya hali ya hewa katika
Durban, ina, baada ya mashauriano rasmi, kuchukuliwa mtazamo kwamba hali ya hewa
fedha wa utaratibu, au Mfuko Green Hali ya Hewa, itafanya kazi
chini ya usimamizi "na kazi chini ya uongozi" wa
Mkutano wa Wanachama, au mkutano mkuu wa nchi zote.

"Matendo ya Marekani kutupa vikwazo katika njia ya mjadala wowote juu ya vyanzo vya fedha kwa ajili ya Green hatari Mfuko wa Hali ya Hewa kulaani mfuko wa kick off kama ganda tupu," alisema David Waskow , sera ya mshauri kwa ajili ya Oxfam.

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Durban dispatch: Hofu ya ahadi ya Kyoto