L’ancien vice-Premier ministre de Tony Blair et actuel d\u00e9put\u00e9 britannique John Prescott, qui fut un des n\u00e9gociateurs de l’accord de Kyoto en 1997 et participa comme officiel europ\u00e9en (repr\u00e9sentant du Conseil de l’Europe) \u00e0 la conf\u00e9rence de Copenhague, envoie une lettre au Guardian<\/em> ce 28 d\u00e9cembre 2009<\/a>, pour d\u00e9fendre le r\u00f4le de la Chine contre les diverses attaques anglo-saxonnes (voir l’article de Mark Lynas<\/a>). Au contraire de cette version anglo-saxonne, Prescott met en cause d’une mani\u00e8re radicale le r\u00f4le des USA dans cette conf\u00e9rence.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abIn a letter to the Guardian, Prescott criticises the US climate change special envoy, Todd Stern, who said at Copenhagen emissions weren’t about morality or politics’, they were ‘just maths’, with China projected to emit 60% more CO2 than the US by 2030.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbIn his letter Prescott claims that Stern’s arguments ignored the more transparent measure of pollution per capita, which shows the US emits 20 tonnes per person every year, compared to China’s six tonnes, whilst America’s GDP per person is almost eight times greater than the Chinese. He also attacks President Barack Obama for suggesting there had been a period of two decades of talking and no action. That might have been true in America, which refused to sign up to Kyoto, but not in the case of China or Europe, who followed a lot of that protocol’s policies. Indeed Obama’s offer of a 17% cut is wholly dependent on Congressional approval and will still be less than Kyoto targets. Prescott is climate change convenor for the Council of Europe, with the role of exploring how to keep the talks on the road.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n