REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS - Battleground Bali: Developing countries take on industrialized countries

eTN Asia/Pacific , 9-12-2007

Australia, China and Malaysia are questioning whether Canada is trying to "rewrite" history by putting the burden of emissions control on poorer countries as the climate change conference in Bali becomes a battleground between the developing countries and industrialized countries.
China, which has been accused as the planet's worst polluters along with the United States, has accused Canada of targeting poorer countries over mandatory emission control cuts.
"I just wonder of it is fair to ask developing countries to take on binding targets," said Su Wei, a member of China's delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, ahead of the arrival of ministers for environment from 180 countries next week.

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