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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Obama envoy: China too must fight global warming By ARTHUR MAX,Associated Press Writer AP - Monday, March 30 BONN, Germany - President Barack Obama's climate change envoy promised a new U.S. commitment Sunday to reducing carbon emissions but insisted that rapidly developing nations like China also had to share the load in fighting climate change. ADVERTISEMENT Obama's team made their international debut Sunday at a major U.N. conference, and delegates were eager to see whether Obama would expand his aggressive domestic agenda to meet even tougher demands for a worldwide deal on global warming. The two-week meeting by 175 countries is the latest attempt to craft a global agreement to govern the emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that scientists say are dangerously warming the planet. Todd Stern, Obama's special climate envoy, broke cleanly with the reluctant attitude of the previous Bush administration. He said the new U.S. team will be "powerfully, fervently engaged" in the talks _ but added it was crucial for China and other developing nations to share the burden of reducing carbon emissions. "We all have to do this together. We don't have a magic wand," he told reporters before making his first statement to the convention. Stern defended the U.S. administration's goal of reducing U.S. carbon emissions by roughly 16 percent in the next dozen years. That goal falls far short of the target under discussion by the industrial world, which is eyeing slashing emissions by 25-40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. "The target that the United States has put forward is not going to be sufficient," said Keya Chatterjee of the Worldwide Fund for Nature. "The science is evolving. We need more, we need more from everybody." With time running out before the pact is due to be completed in December, delegates are trying to narrow vast differences over how best to fight climate change. Issues include how much countries need to reduce emissions, how to raise the tens of billions of dollars needed annually to fight global warming and how to transfer money and technology to poor countries who are most vulnerable to increasingly fierce storms, droughts and failing crops. Stern said the U.S. position will be guided by whatever deal Obama can strike with Congress on domestic legislation. "I do not think that it is realistic to believe that we will then be able to then go into an international setting and get a higher number than that," he said. At a recent conference in Copenhagen, scientists warned that climate change is happening more rapidly that previously calculated, and said the Earth could be in danger of major climatic changes that would trigger widespread social disruption. U.N. scientists reported last year that rising sea levels caused by global warming threatens to swamp coastlines and entire island states, and predicted increasing drought and water stress for arid countries, especially in Africa. In a symbolic move embraced around the world, lights dimmed Saturday night for one hour in nearly 4,000 cities and famous sites _ from the Sydney opera house to the Egyptian pyramids, from the Eiffel Tower in Paris to Times Square in New York _ to highlight concern over global warming. The Worldwide Fund for Nature, which organized the event, said hundreds of millions of people took part. "Last night's message from the masses was loud and clear: Delay no more, real action now!" said Kim Carstensen, head of WWF's Global Climate Initiative. The climate change agreement to be concluded in December in Copenhagen, Denmark, is meant to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which requires 37 industrial nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 5 percent from 1990 levels by 2012 when it expires. The United States was instrumental in negotiating Kyoto, but could not win enough support in Congress. Global talks stalled as the U.S. Bush administration refused to reduce carbon emissions. Still, the talks have barely picked up momentum since Obama's election. Everyone is waiting for the new team to clarify its stand on a host of issues, from emission targets to finances. "There is a clear reluctance to go too fast and too quickly into numbers until we know what the U.S. will say," said Harald Dovland, chairman of a key forum at the conference. Obama announced Saturday he would revive a parallel negotiating forum of the 17 nations that emit more than 80 percent of the world's greenhouse gases, including India, China, Brazil, Russia, Japan and the European Union. Stern said the Major Economies Forum was not intended as a negotiating platform, but as a place to generate ideas for the climate change accord in Copenhagen. When the forum was first launched by former President George W. Bush, many of the U.N. delegates viewed it as an attempt to undermine the U.N. process. That view has eased. Yvo de Boer, the U.N.'s top climate official, said the forum could be "a very valuable discussion platform" that could lead those countries to work for "a higher level of ambition." But De Boer also asked the major emitters group to consider financing issues, and said any agreement they could reach on targets and funding "would be welcome with open arms by the real negotiations." 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