یکی از نمایندگان ایالات متحده در مذاکرات جهانی چین تهدید کرد آمریکا ممکن است از چارچوب UNFCCC خارج شود.

With the formal UN climate talks getting stalled in the penultimate round of the year, US has come out in the open threatening to break away from the consensus route and try to seal a climate deal outside the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The US deputy special envoy for climate change Jonathan Pershing was quoted as having said at the on-going Tianjin talks, "It may mean that we don't use this process (the UN negotiations) exclusively as the way to move forward."

Murmurs over an attempt by US and other rich countries to get key economies to sign a `plurilateral' agreement outside the UN climate convention gained ground with the US and developed countries remaining entrenched in their recession-year position of not offering deep emission reduction targets or substantial funds.

Muted conversations about US wanting to push a deal with select influential countries outside the UN convention have been earlier noted in negotiating circles since the BASIC four -- China, India, Brazil and South Africa -- distanced themselves from the Copenhagen Accord. But the open threat by the US to break away from the consensus route, which is mandatory in the UN process, pointed to a greater rift between the developed and poor countries since the accord was signed in the Danish capital in December last year.

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