MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...
quotas, and would like this provision to be sealed in a new deal that may replace the Kyoto Protocol.Russia may increase its CO2 emissions by 30%, and Ukraine by 50%, by 2020, or sell the unused quotas. If it sells all of them, the global emissions will rise 15%.
At a pre-Copenhagen meeting between members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and President Dmitry Medvedev, one of the scientists said that an offensive was being launched against the rights of hydrocarbons-producing nations. "The offensive is spearheaded at the countries that have oil and gas," he said.
As usual, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez caused an uproar in Copenhagen by telling assembly: "If the climate were a bank, a capitalist bank, they [the rich countries] would have bailed it out." And he is absolutely right about that.
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