US: No climate deal without all aboard | AlterNet

Todd Stern, the chief US climate envoy, said it was time to lay to rest the concept of a "firewall" between wealthy and developing countries that dates from the early 1990s -- before the rapid economic growth of China.

"Many developing countries, including large ones, continue to be fixated on preserving the firewall between developed and developing countries," Stern told a conference in New York, in a likely reference to China.

"We see this as both unjustified and incompatible with solving the problem," he told the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit. "We are not going to be part of a new agreement with a fixed, bright-line, 1992-vintage firewall."
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But Stern insisted that China should be part of any future deal, saying it has surpassed France in emissions even on a per capita level.

"You cannot build a system that treats China like Chad when China is now the world's second largest economy," Stern said.