Danish climate text triggers outrage of emerging nations

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http://www.france24.com/en/20091209-danish-climate-text-triggers-outrage-emerging-nations

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However, the G77 group of emerging nations denounced the Danish text as a backroom stitch-up that favoured rich countries on the pivotal issues of emissions curbs and financing to combat climate change.

The text is a "serious violation that threatens the success of the Copenhagen negotiating process", said Sudanese envoy Lumumba Stanislas Dia Pin, who heads the G77 bloc including top polluter China and India.

"The G77 members will not walk out of this negotiation at this late hour because we can't afford a failure in Copenhagen," he told journalists.

"However, we will not sign an unequitable deal. We can't accept a deal that condemns 80 percent of the world population to further suffering and injustice."

The Danish draft, seen by AFP, states the conference's parties have a "shared vision" for limiting warming to a maximum of two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.

Emissions pledges are not detailed but, among other things, the draft points to a year by which developing countries, which are the big emitters of tomorrow, would see their emissions reach a maximum.

Chinese negotiator Su Wei said he had not seen the text, but added: "It is too early to talk about a peak year for developing countries."

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Developing countries, several of which are already big polluters, are refusing to budge unless rich nations slash their emissions by at least 40 percent by 2020 over 1990 levels.

And rich countries are under pressure to kick in 10 billion dollars a year in "fast-track" funding from 2010 to 2012 to transfer anti-warming technology and expertise to poorer ones.

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