aujourd’hui<\/a>, d’o\u00f9 est tir\u00e9 le passage ci-dessus et qui nous \u00e9claire sur l’\u00e9volution de la politique US dans le domaine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abAs Tony Blair left Washington yesterday for his last visit as Prime Minister, the Bush administration was acting to scupper international efforts to combat climate change.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbLess than 24 hours earlier, Mr Blair had basked in the apparent support of President George Bush for his stated aim of avoiding catastrophic global warming. But it seems his appeals have fallen on deaf ears. While Mr Bush was eulogising his friend in the White House rose garden, the President’s delegation at a United Nations meeting in Bonn was working to stop any progress on setting up a carbon trading scheme and emissions caps.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHarlan Watson, President Bush’s chief climate negotiator, rejected any caps on US emissions or participation in carbon trading. That’s not our agenda, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbLeading scientists and policy makers have been meeting in Germany over the past two weeks to lay the foundations for a new international agreement a son of Kyoto’, the landmark protocol designed to reduce harmful emissions of greenhouse gases. The negotiations came after economists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported earlier this month that greenhouse gas emissions, which are causing the atmosphere to warm, can be brought under control – but only if governments act decisively.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbMr Blair has long been engaged in attempts to win over the climate change sceptics in the Bush administration. But progress so far has been restricted to a change in rhetoric.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbMeanwhile away from the cameras, the US delegation to Bonn was scotching any prospect of the emissions caps and carbon trading that are needed to realise the rhetoric. We don’t believe targets and timetables are important, or a global cap and trade system, he said. It’s important not to jeopardise economic growth.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSpeaking on condition of anonymity a senior climate negotiator, party to the talks, said that the US was even stalling progress on negotiations on a successor to Kyoto which had been due to get under way at a summit in Bali later this year.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWe were not expecting a big change of stance but we need them to stop obstructing all progress across the board, said the source.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBut once again Mr Watson, described off-the-record by international colleagues as a climate change dinosaur, said it would be premature to open talks on amending the rules of how Kyoto works, a vital step to extending the pact which expires in 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbKevin Conrad, the chief negotiator for Papua New Guinea, which has emerged as a leading voice among poorer nations, said the US was \u00a0\u00bbimpotent\u00a0\u00bb on climate change and that the impotence came from the top.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThere is a huge gap between rhetoric and reality, said Mr Conrad. Saying ‘we’re taking it very seriously’ but not putting any serious tools in place to do anything. The missing link is the White House, where there’s no vision and no direction.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 19 mai 2007 \u00e0 05H01<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Blair \u00e9tait venu dire adieu \u00e0 son ami GW. La cause \u00e9tait bien difficile. Il s’agissait de conserver bonne figure, d’exalter ces relations si sp\u00e9ciales, de justifier un alignement quasiment pathologique pour des r\u00e9sultats non seulement nuls mais en plus catastrophiques et ainsi de suite. Mais l’habile Blair avait pr\u00e9vu le coup. Quittant GW, il… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[705,3392,3228,3198,5038,2766,4983],"class_list":["post-68811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-blair","tag-climatique","tag-crise","tag-gw","tag-rechauffement","tag-relations","tag-speciales"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}