Ministers of Environment of the block called BASIC-Brazil, South Africa, India and China, met in Cape Town to assess how to be expedited to such an agreement to reduce global warming.
“The Ministers believe that a legally binding would result in Cancun, Mexico in 2010, or up in South Africa in 2011 “they said in a joint statement, referring to UN climate talks.
Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Environment and Forests of India, told reporters: “At this point it seems that we will return to Cape Town in 2011. There is no progress in sight … we have a long way “.
Kyoto Protocol, the U.S. has not ratified, binds about 40 developed nations to cut emissions in the period 2008-12. The UN meetings on climate have failed to achieve a legally binding agreement over what happens after 2012.
More than 100 countries have endorsed a nonbinding agreement, agreed last year Copenhagen, to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial times, but did not explain how this should be achieved. It included a target of 100,000 million dollars in aid to developing nations from 2020. &ame9bp;lt;/P>
United States supports the Copenhagen agreement, but many emerging economies do not want to supplant the UN Climate Convention 1992, which more clearly explains that rich nations must take first place in reducing emissions and combating climate change.
BASIC proposed ministers on Sunday use 10,000 million dollars in “quick-start funding” this year to test and demonstrate ways to adapt and mitigate climate change.
They said the world can not wait indefinitely to U.S. the second largest carbon emitter after China adopted national legislation required to conclude the negotiations.
A bipartisan working group on Saturday delayed a compromise bill with the U.S. climate change a top priority of President Barack Obama has been closely watched by other nations skeptical of U.S. commitment to combat global warming.
(Reporting by Wendell Roelf, editing by Spanish Patricia Avila)