By Peter Harmsen (AFP) – 3 hours ago
SEOUL — The world’s 20 largest rich and emerging economies including China vowed Friday to “spare no effort” at upcoming climate change talks in Mexico, a year after Beijing stymied a deal in Copenhagen.
“We will spare no effort to reach a balanced and successful outcome in Cancun,” the Group of 20 said in a statement issued at the end of two days of talks in Seoul.
The vow came less than three weeks before 194 countries meet in the Mexican resort city of Cancun for a second go at hammering out an agreement to curb greenhouse gases after 2012, when the current arrangement expires.
The climate gathering will take place in the lingering shadow of last December’s Copenhagen summit, which ended in near-fiasco, due in no large part, critics say, to Chinese reluctance to agree to binding commitments.
“Addressing the threat of global climate change is an urgent priority for all nations,” the G20 statement said.
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