The last global climate meetings weren’t considered very successful in finding an acceptable successor to the Kyoto-protocol, one with emission targets that would include all the countries and not only developed ones. China recently became the world’s biggest emitter, and it will be hard to limit the temperature variation if the developing world, and more specifically the emerging economies, are left out.
At the end of this month, the global climate change conference will be held in Doha, and as an impetus, Cairo Climate Talks organised a discussion between Dr. Karsten Sach, a German negotiator, and his Egyptian counterpart Ambassador Ahmed Ihab Gamaleldin, deputy assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs. In their discussion and a follow up interview, Ambassador Ihab Gamaleldin revealed much about Egypt’s position for Doha’s COP18 conference.
But it isn’t simple; Dr. Ihab Gamaleldin argues that “there is a difference between the historic emissions and the current emissions. The African countries haven’t contributed to climate change and reductions imposed today could deny them from their right to develop.”
