Russia may not join global climate agreement
Russia, the third biggest greenhouse gas emitter in the world after China and the US, indicated on Friday that “If the conditions for the international agreement are not favorable for [Russia] we may not join such an agreement.” This sentiment was conveyed by Alexander Pankin, the deputy head of the Russian delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland, which ran from Dec. 1-12.
The Poznan Conference began negotiating a final replacement to the Kyoto Treaty to hopefully be signed in Copenhagen at the end of 2009. But Russia warned that if the new pact did not set commitments for countries based upon their economic and social standing, Russia would not sign.
Russia, which finally ratified the Kyoto Protocol in 2004 after many years of internal debate, plans to cut emissions to 30% below 1990 and then reduce them further but has not given a percentage for possible cuts by 2020.
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