GCC Urges EU to Join Efforts Toward Real Progress

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GCC Urges EU to Join Efforts Toward Real Progress

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GCC Urges EU to Join Efforts Toward Real Progress

Talks Must Focus on Technology Solutions, Rather than Blame

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, WASHINGTON, Mar. 30 -/E-Wire/-- The Global Climate Coalition today urged the European Union to join the United States in moving climate change policy in a new direction based on a forward-looking technology-centered approaches.

"No longer will this debate be running around in a vicious circle of economic and competitive bickering, handwringing and fingerpointing," said GCC Executive Director Glenn Kelly. "This change of course will pave the way for new progress that will benefit all parties – especially in developing countries."

Kelly urged the European Union and other parties to join with the United States to create a new approach to international climate policy based on several key elements of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, including market-based solutions, advanced technology applications and wide-ranging opportunities for technology transfer.

"A new direction based on promising technologies are how we can help the developing countries grow smarter," Kelly said. "We must work together to lift all nations to a better way of life. Already, we are making progress internationally with pilot projects focusing on cleaner power plants, alternative energies and reforestation."

Kelly said the "fresh air of a new direction should reinvigorate negotiators" when they reconvene for climate change discussions in July at Bonn. He said the building conflict and disagreement that culminated in the disastrous collapse at the November 2000 COP-6 in The Hague will be "wiped away if negotiators are serious about finally making real progress."

Kelly added pursuing this new direction together will meet the world's energy needs while at the same time addressing important climate concerns that will be far more effective than anything that has been proposed to date, including the Protocol

"This is a prudent step, and clearly the right thing to do," he said.

"It is my hope Mr. Schroeder and his colleagues in Europe will realize the time has come to end the fingerpointing and finally begin a common sense effort on climate policy that will actually show results instead of ending in disarray and more bureaucratic inaction," Kelly added.

Established in 1989, the Global Climate Coalition is a coalition of trade associations representing more than 6 million businesses, companies and corporations, providing a voice in the international policy debate on global climate change.

Global Climate Coalition

Frank Maisano, (202) 628-3622

http://www.globalclimate.org

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