US tough pressure on convention track talks

Under the pressure of the United States, the final compromise of the Ad hoc Working Group on long-term Cooperative action of the Convention, adding a number of options to the text, but it also created a greater obstacle to the plenary Li Hujun from Copenhagen as the Ad Hoc Working group meeting was not progressing well, too many topics were left to the plenary meetings of the Climate Change Conference.　　It also adds more variables to the Copenhagen talks.　　The Ad Hoc Working Group on long-term Cooperative action of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereinafter referred to as the Convention) closed at nearly 7 hours of early morning local time, December 17.　　As the United States was also included in the negotiations under the Convention, the text produced by the meetings of the Ad Hoc Working group would be an important basis for the outcome of the Copenhagen negotiations. The meeting was delayed by dozens of hours than the original schedule.　　Among the complications of the United States negotiating delegation, dissatisfaction with the draft submitted by the Chairman of the Working Group and the submission of a number of amendments at the last minute was one of the major reasons for the delay in the meeting. It was not until 4:50 A.M. 17th that the closing meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on long-term Cooperative action of the Convention began.　　Jonathan Pershing, the chief negotiator of the United States delegation, at the beginning of the meeting asked for a major revision of the text in an attempt to pershing its responsibility for reducing emissions. For example, Pershing asked for a description of the "legal form" (legal form) in its emission reduction responsibilities to become a choice, that is, to discuss this description.　　In addition, Pershing hopes to revise the text to allow developing countries to take on more greenhouse gas mitigation pressures. After Pershing, the representatives of the major countries expressed their attitudes or asked for amendments to the text.　　China's chief negotiator, Su, also spoke back, with a big case to lay the most important foundation for the outcome of the Copenhagen negotiations. Ultimately, some of the requests made by States were accepted, and a number of options were added to the text. One member of the environmental group was disappointed: "[they] talked for two years, but there are so many options."　　"It is clearly the United States that has been involved in the crucial moment," he said. This means that the contents of the text that remain unresolved and left to the plenary Assembly are increased. The time for negotiations in Copenhagen is getting shorter and less difficult. This article is from Hu Shuli, our network