US government position on climate change
Elizabeth Bast Friends of the Earth International in an interview with Real World radio
interview with Elizabeth Bast, from Friends of the Earth International
The United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 13) took place during the first two weeks of December, 2007, in Bali, Indonesia.
Friends of the Earth International demanded that the signatory countries of the Kyoto Protocol start the negotiations with reference to the period post-2012, which is when the first part of the agreement comes to an end.
Rich countries should be responsible for their environmental and climate debt. They need to start discussing the commitments they should take from 2013 on, especially considerable reductions of greenhouse gases.
Friends of the Earth International proposes wants the negotiations to end in
2009, so that the national parliament members have time to ratify the
agreements and create legislation to put them
into practice before 2013.
Friends of the Earth wants rich countries to reduce greenhouse gases emissions by at least 40 per cent by 2020, based on 1990 levels.
We call on industrialized nations to finance the activities of adaptation and mitigation of climate change in the South, and allow for the transfer of technologies to those countries, so that they can produce in a sustainable way.
Friends of the Earth highlights that the developed countries must assume the costs as a sign of responsibility for the climate, environmental and social debt they have with the developing countries and not as charity work.
In Bali, Real World Radio interviewed Elizabeth Bast, member of the Executive Committee of Friends of the Earth International on the role of the United States in the negotiations about climate change. Listen on the RMR website
