Europe's climate [scam] chief scolds and praises China | Energy & Oil | Reuters
Connie Hedegaard's comments were delivered alongside a warning that Europe would not automatically sign up again to the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol, the main global deal to tackle climate change.
"I was a bit disappointed in Geneva," she said of U.N. climate talks earlier this month. "China was represented by an undersecretary from the local embassy -- that was not a good sign. China is a key player and they have to commit strongly."
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Hedegaard said progress looked "very difficult" in the run up to global climate talks in Cancun, Mexico in November, and that nobody should expect the EU to sign up to an extension of the Kyoto Protocol unless loopholes are closed and other big players commit.
"If we did so, we would take away the pressure to try to bring the US into a formal arrangement and we would take away the pressure on the emerging economies," Hedegaard said. "We should not sign up to something where we can see the environmental integrity will not be okay for three years to come."
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