Bitter Divisions at Climate Talks
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/world/14climate.html?ref=science
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia Amid growing frustration with the United States in deadlocked negotiations at a United Nations conference on global warming, the European Union threatened Thursday to boycott separate talks proposed by the Bush administration in Hawaii next month.
Humberto Rosa, the chief delegate from Portugal, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, said the talks to be hosted by the Bush Administration in Hawaii in January would be meaningless if there was no deal this week here at the conference on the resort island of Bali.
If we do not act now, climate change will increase the number of hungry people in the world, said Jacques Diouf, director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, who is in Bali this week.
Gore on America:
Over the next two years the United States is going to be somewhere it is not now, Mr. Gore said to loud applause. You must anticipate that.
Humberto Rosa, the chief delegate from Portugal, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, said the talks to be hosted by the Bush Administration in Hawaii in January would be meaningless if there was no deal this week here at the conference on the resort island of Bali.
If we do not act now, climate change will increase the number of hungry people in the world, said Jacques Diouf, director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, who is in Bali this week.
Gore on America:
Over the next two years the United States is going to be somewhere it is not now, Mr. Gore said to loud applause. You must anticipate that.
