Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak met this weekend in Beijing and pledged in a joint statement to “work closely together through strengthened dialogue” in order to push through a new global climate deal, Bloomberg reports.
Hatoyama, who took office last month, has made climate change a focus of his administration, pledging a 25 percent reduction in Japanese greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 compared to the baseline year of the Kyoto Protocol, 1990. China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses, has so far refused to accept binding emissions targets.
"I know that China has some sort of domestic framework, but it is important for China to make an international commitment for the success of (Copenhagen)," Hatoyama told reporters according to Reuters, after a meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
According to AFP, the leaders said that success would be based on ”the establishment of an effective post-2012 international co-operation framework on climate change, consistent with the principles of the UNFCCC, in particular common but differentiated responsibilities”.
At global climate talks in Bangkok last week, several nations - including the United States, Australia and Japan - tabled proposals calling for an approach in which each country would make its own national commitments.
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