ENVIRONMENTAL organisation Greenpeace rejected the new pact announced ovenight between the United States and five Asia-Pacific nations aimed at cutting greenhouse gases in the future, calling it "absurd".
"This pact looks like yet another attempt by the US and Australia to derail (future international climate change) negotiations and condemn future generations to a world ravaged by climate change," Greenpeace said in a statement.
"The pact, rather than saving the climate, is nothing more than a trade agreement in energy technologies between the countries in question," it added. In a "vision statement" issued on the sidelines of a regional forum in Laos, the United States, Australia, India, China, South Korea and Japan announced their initiative on a non-binding compact to reduce emissions.
The new initiative does not have enforcement standards or a specific timeframe for signatories to cut emissions, unlike the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which the United States and Australia have refused to ratify.
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