EU Delegation - China Will Not Accept Any Binding Emisson Caps In Any Climate Agreement - Reuters

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BEIJING, Nov 7 (Reuters) - China will not accept binding emissions caps in any pact to tackle global warming, a European Parliament team said on Wednesday, but added the bigger obstacle was those countries who might refuse to join the fight at all.

The delegation was in China for talks ahead of a meeting of world governments in Bali next month that will begin negotiations on mapping out a plan to fight global warming to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which runs out in 2012.

"Unlike the European Parliament or the European Union, the Chinese believe that it will not be possible in the agreement which follows the Kyoto Protocol for China to accept any binding obligations," Guido Sacconi, chairman of the European Parliament's climate change committee, told a news conference.

China's emissions of carbon dioxide are expected to overtake the United States -- the world's leading emitter of the greenhouse gas -- by 2008, putting it in the spotlight of global climate change talks. But it rejects concrete caps on its emissions, saying development must be its priority and that rich countries responsible for most of the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere should do more to cut their output and transfer clean technology to poorer nations.

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[tom_paine]

1. You tell 'em China. You're not going to listen to any commie pinko enviro-crap, right?

Hey, my head just exploded. Too much doublethink.

In any case, at least some of China's carbon output is too keep all of us up to iur armpits in their cheap crap that we don't make here anymore.

Whavtever. Postcards from the decok of the Titantic.