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Home U.S. World Entertainment Sports Business Health Science Technology Politics Offbeat Environment Travel News Articles Obama, Australian PM To Meet About Copenhagen; India Pledges No Emissions Cuts November 30, 2009 9:08 a.m. EST Topics: United States, Politics, Environment Kris Alingod - AHN Contributor Washington, D.C. (AHN) - President Barack Obama meets with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at the White House on Monday, a week before a crucial United Nations climate conference is held in Copenhagen. India, the world's fourth largest emitter, said the same day that there would be no binding agreement on emissions cuts and that it would primarily protect its economic interests during the summit. The summit will be key to replacing the Kyoto Protocol and future climate legislation in developing nations, including climate change legislation making its way in the U.S. Congress. Obama and Rudd hold a bilateral in the Oval Office at 11:10 am ET. They will discuss "a range of issues including Afghanistan and climate change in the run-up to Copenhagen," according to the White House. The President will attend the third day of the Dec. 7-18 conference in Denmark, where he will commit to an emissions target in the range of 17 percent below 2005 in 2020, a reduction that is equivalent to the proposed cut in a climate measure passed by the House, the Waxman-Markey bill, but lower than that of the Kerry-Boxer bill in the Senate. The U.S. commitment seeks a long-term reduction of emissions by 83 percent by 2050. This final goal would call for a 30 percent cut in 2025, and 42 percent five years later. The United States adopted a 2°C global warming limit as part of a Group of Eight agreement in July. That G8 summit in Italy also yielded "unprecedented commitments" from the 16-member Major Economies Forum and other developing nations on the goal of reducing greenhouse emissions by half by 2050. The emissions target includes an 80 percent reduction by industrialized nations, a concession China and India had refused to accept. Funding has been another major obstacle to an agreement. The United States and other industrialized nations would need to provide at least $10 billion to help developing countries toward a clear path of low-emission growth. Last week, China made a specific pledge to cut back emissions by 40 to 45 percent by 2020. But India said on Monday it would not accept a legally binding agreement on emissions targets. Shyam Saran, the special envoy to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on climate change, said in New Delhi, "If we take all the offers which are on the table at the moment, we will end up to the 20 per cent reduction in total emissions by developed countries by 2020 compared to 1990. This is far below measures if we really want to tackle the climate change as projected by the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]." "While smaller nations or island nations are likely to get fund[s], we major developing nations would have to fend on our own," Saran added. The remarks come a day after Saran told NDTV, "Signing on to emission reduction targets in the same manner as developed countries, that's simply not possible." World leaders have been discussing a new framework in the last couple of years to replace the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012. The 1997 Protocol required 37 industrialized nations to reduce emissions from 2008 to 2012 by an average of 5 percent against 1990 levels. Earlier this month, final negotiations on a new treaty were held in Barcelona, Spain in preparation for the Copenhagen summit. No breakthrough was reached, and conservationists had criticized rich nations for "lowering expectations" of the conference. After the Barcelona meeting, Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmusen, the host of the Copenhagen summit, proposed "focus[ing] on what is possible" by working on a binding political agreement instead of a comprehensive treaty. He described a text of five to eight pages that would not be a "political declaration with niceties," but an ambitious and binding commitment to reducing emissions. "A Copenhagen Agreement could be constructed to serve the dual purpose of providing for continued negotiations on a legal agreement and for immediate action," Rasmusen Rasmussen had assured global counterparts. But Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, said last week, "The stakes are too high for any country to be focusing on national agendas... There is no Plan B for failure at Copenhagen only Plan A, and A stands for action." On Sunday, Rasmussen addressed a meeting of more than 50 world leaders at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago called for more financial resources for developing nations, and for his proposed "one agreement-two purpose" agreement at Copenhagen. "We need to take into account and respect developing countries' rights to economic and social development," Rasmussen said. "In their efforts to their development, particularly the most vulnerable developing countries are being disproportionally affected by climate change. An agreement in Copenhagen needs to address this effectively, both in the short and long run." "Our vision for Copenhagen is 'one Agreement - two purposes," Rasmussen added. We should not postpone action until a legally binding instrument is agreed....We should capture the current political momentum and start combating global warming immediately." 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