By SPA
Bali, Indonesia : European nations will boycott U.S.-led climate talks next month unless Washington accepts a range of numbers for negotiating deep reductions of global-warming emissions at a U.N. conference here, Germany’s environment minister said Thursday.
No result in Bali means no Major Economies Meeting, said Sigmar Gabriel, a top EU environment official, referring to a series of separate climate talks initiated by U.S. President George W. Bush in September.
The U.S. invited 16 other major economies, including European countries, Japan, China and India, to discuss a possible program of nationally determined, voluntary cutbacks in greenhouse gas emissions, as opposed to the binding targets favored by the EU and others now meeting in
Bali, the Associated Press reported.