Kyoto Negotiator Prescott - Obama must do MORE!

EU Kyoto Negotiator John Prescott gives his repsonse to President Obama's speech.

He said:

"The deal President Obama has announced is still less than what European nations have observed since Kyoto.

"It's still the largest and wealthiest nation and the greatest emitter. So hopefully that speech is a statement of his position at the moment. But when he gets in the room with Gordon and others he's going to have to offer a little bit more.

"As I told the Chinese environment minister, he's got to wriggle a little bit more and Europe's got to be talking about 30% as the minimum not the maximum.

"All these three groups have got to make a change so let's hope that's going to happen in the next couple of hours so we do have a political agreement that is credible."

Former UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott was in Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Change Convention (COP15.)

Mr Prescott was there as the Rapporteur on Climate Change for the Council of Europe and leading its New Earth Deal campaign for a fairer deal for the developing countries.

You can follow his daily diary at www.newearthdeal.org

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• Barak Obama
• Copenhagen
• John Prescott
• Climate Change

[woollerE]

Gin and Tonic please steward.

What a complete waste of space this man is. The sooner he and all his cohorts are gone the better.

[Burdetski]

Are you chewing a wasp you left wing scumbag. You have ruined my country you traitor

[AM2prunejuice]

i remember when bush was president. all heard alot of how he didn't sign kyoto. but now that obama is president. you rarely hear anything about kyoto. it's a forgotten subject. it makes me think it's all b.s.

[bugledog]

You could help climate change by not having 2 cars, flying all over the world in a jet (paid for by the British tax payers) and being such a fat, flatulent waste of space.

[memorymoog123]

Piss off you fat whelk