U.S. and China relations go to cooling

U.S. and China relations  go to cooling
The main pollutants of the global atmosphere promises to reduce harmful emissions

The White House has officially confirmed that U.S. President Barack Obama will go to the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen.

It will appear in the capital of Denmark on 9 December, and the next day is already in Oslo, where he will hand over the Nobel Peace Prize. In Copenhagen, Barack Obama will try to justify the most daring of the powers conferred upon him by the international community hopes. In the presence of leaders from over 60 countries president is going to tell you about the ambitious task that will put in front of the United States: by 2020, reduce emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere by 17 percent compared to 2005 levels by 2025 – a 30 per cent in 2030 – on 42 per cent by 2050 – up 83 per cent. The bill already pending in Congress, and the Obama administration is working closely with legislators, ensuring that it be adopted as soon as possible.

Almost simultaneously came the encouraging news from Beijing. China, too, will be presented in Copenhagen at the very highest level – will come, Premier Wen Jiabao, and also did not come with empty hands, and with concrete plans and promises. China, as reported by the State Council (government) China, by 2020, intends to 40-45 per cent reduction in carbon emissions per unit of gross domestic product, compared to 2005. “This is a significant contribution to combating global climate change. The decision taken by China voluntarily, on the basis of national needs” – the document says the Chinese government.

China and the United States is the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases, and during his recent visit to China, Barack Obama’s theme of global warming and the upcoming conference in Copenhagen was one of the main negotiations.

Expected to be signed in Copenhagen on a new international instrument that will replace the Kyoto Protocol – the first global agreement on environmental protection. The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in December 1997, in addition to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It commits developed countries and countries with economies in transition to reduce or stabilize greenhouse gas emissions in 2008-2012 compared with 1990.

Before Barack Obama announced that he was ready to participate in the Forum in Copenhagen, only if, in his words, he “is confident that all countries have been negotiating with the firm intention, and we are on the verge of concluding a meaningful agreement.”

The reduction of industrial emissions – is expensive, especially in the global economic crisis. Therefore, many countries, even though configured to work constructively in Copenhagen, would prefer to see the output is not legally binding, but only a framework agreement.