Bali: Anger at US Bali proposals 'two weeks too late' - by Charles Clover
The EU wants to see formal negotiations launched for a new treaty with an end date of 2009 for signing a deal, and continued to insist on mention of a science-based target of 25 per cent to 40 per cent emissions cuts for developed countries. In the morning, Stavros Dimas, the European Environment commissioner, said: "We are entering the final hours and I can report that there has been progress."Friends of the Earth executive director Tony Juniper said: "The US are behaving like first class passengers on a jumbo jet who believe an emergency in economy class does not affect them. "But if we go down, we go down together and the US needs to realize that very quickly." Sources close to European delegations said that "big beasts" from the US, taken to mean vice-president, Dick Cheney, had been telephoning European delegations to seek out a compromise over the emission reduction figures in the agreement.
EU-Digest: The US will probably get a "consensus" because the EU has not got the courage to bi-pass the US (Bush Administration) and go ahead on setting goals with the rest of the world, or even let this conference die and wait one year to call another meeting, after the "evil forces" in the White House have been replaced by more moderate Republicans or Democrats. What is this great fear of America on issues which can mean life or death on the planet ?
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