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COP15開幕 国益最優先で交渉にあたれ

The Yomiuri Shimbun (Dec. 7, 2009)
National interests key for Japan at COP15v
COP15開幕 国益最優先で交渉にあたれ(12月7日付・読売社説)

The government faces a crucial stage of negotiations on drawing up a framework to fight global warming at the 15th Conference of Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP15).
 地球温暖化対策で、公平なルール策定への道筋をつけられるのか。気候変動枠組み条約の第15回締約国会議(COP15)で、日本政府は交渉の正念場を迎える。


The U.N. climate conference will start in Copenhagen on Monday, with leaders from about 100 countries, including Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, scheduled to attend at the climax of the Dec. 7-18 meeting.
 COP15は7日、コペンハーゲンで開幕し、首脳級会合には、鳩山首相ら約100か国の首脳が出席する予定だ。

Japan will attend the conference having set a midterm goal of cutting domestic greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent from 1990 levels by 2020. By declaring that extremely ambitious goal, the government aims to persuade other nations to cut their emissions further.
 日本政府は、温室効果ガスの国内排出量を、2020年までに1990年比で25%削減するという中期目標を掲げて臨む。極めて高い目標の提示により、他国にも排出削減を促す戦略といえる。

Due to the global recession and other reasons, preliminary negotiations among countries have become bogged down. Major industrialized countries and developing nations are pressing each other to pledge tougher emissions goals, leaving them at loggerheads on the issue of how to combat global warming.
 だが、世界的な経済危機の影響もあって、各国による事前折衝は難航している。先進国と途上国が互いに積極的な取り組みを迫り、その溝は埋まっていない。

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Hatoyama out on a limb

An international framework to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of 2012, was expected to be adopted at COP15. But it was put off, with the result that the focus of attention now is whether the COP15 nations can reach a major political agreement that could lead to the adoption of a new protocol next year.
 COP15では、13年以降の削減ルールとなる「ポスト京都議定書」の採択が期待されていた。しかし、これは先送りされ、来年の新議定書採択につながる政治合意ができるかどうかが焦点である。

Japan must prevent a repeat of what occurred when the Kyoto pact was being formulated, when this nation was backed into a disadvantageous position.
 ここで大切なのは、日本が不利な削減義務を負った京都議定書の二の舞いを演じないことだ。

As a precondition to make efforts to achieve the self-proclaimed goal, Hatoyama has said that all major emitter countries must join the scheme, agreeing to set ambitious goals. The prime minister must stick firmly to this stipulation.
 鳩山首相は、自ら掲げた目標の達成に取り組む前提条件として、「すべての主要国の参加による意欲的な目標の合意」を挙げている。最後までこの条件を堅持していかなければならない。

We hope the government will launch tenacious negotiations toward creating a fair post-Kyoto Protocol framework with the United States and China--the two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, which are not obliged to cut their emissions under the current pact.
 京都議定書で削減義務を負っていない2大排出国の米国、中国を相手に、公平な枠組み作りに向けて粘り強く交渉してほしい。
by kiyoshimat | 2009-12-07 07:04 | 英字新聞

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