[Mb-civic] BBC E-mail: Climate pact: For good or bad?

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"We should recognise this as a serious attempt to come up with something which is needed if the major developing nations are to be engaged," commented climate change specialist Jacqueline Karas, from Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, to the BBC News website. 

"The US has succeeded in engaging with three major developing economies in an effort to ensure they don't have to follow the same polluting path that industrialised countries followed in their development. 

"But I think at the same time it is fair to say it's a serious attempt by the US to deflect attention away from their own profligate emissions - to look at technology for tomorrow rather than at cuts for today - and it may also be timed to attempt to undermine negotiations in Montreal." 



** Climate pact: For good or bad? **
BBC environment correspondent Richard Black looks at the repercussions of the climate pact between the US and five Asia-Pacific states.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/4725681.stm >


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