14 DAY TRIAL // An anti-pressure group has issued a report highlighting that wealthy nations are trying to “bully” developing countries on the matter of climate change.
As the Durban summit is expected to provide efficient measures to monitor and control climate change, recent information suggests that the world's major powers want to support their position through “threats and bribery.”
The recent report accuses America and Britain of trying to use financial advantages to influence the decisions of developing countries. The group calls these nations' actions “unfair, undemocratic and even deceitful means to skew the climate change negotiations in their favour,” reports The Independent. Apparently, the US, the EU and the UK are trying to force developing countries to agree to a set of regulations believed to be less effective than the ones reflected in the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012.
According to the recent data, rich nations will try to turn the course of the summit in their favor by organizing secret meetings meant to make room for “last minute deals.”
The source reveals that the Durban summit might follow the same path adopted in Copenhagen in 2009, when representatives had only one hour to read the final document signed by 26 participant nations.
During the Copenhagen summit, the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, treated the representatives of small island states like "naughty school children," according to the Independent.
“The US, UK and EU are using the same strong-arm tactics to bribe developing countries that we saw at Copenhagen. Abandoning their previous commitments to provide finance to help developing countries deal with climate change, they are now saying finance will only be available to countries that agree to a new deal that effectively abandons the Kyoto treaty,” affirms Murray Worthy of the World Development Movement.
The new international deal is expected to offer an efficient framework, as the Durban summit represents scientists' last hope to find ways of reducing alarming rising levels of greenhouse gas emissions.