An extraneous proposal entered by the back door that could compromise the success of the Conference.

I will quote a speech of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil done exactly a week ago:

" In the Kyoto negotiations, the developed countries, responsible for the majority of the greenhouse gas emissions in the planet, must face up unequivocally to their responsibility to reduce their emissions by an amount appropriate to avoid the grave consequences of climate change. It is expected, in this regard, that the developed countries must respect the international commitment adopted two years ago in Berlin and exert the leadership in solving an environmental problem caused mostly by their unsustainable patterns of consumption and of production."

This is the real yardstick of our success here in Kyoto; everything else is subsidiary, including our efforts to make the Convention finally work though our constructive proposals.

We can not accept responsibilities which are not ours.

It would be unfair, unrealistic, untimely, unscientific and unpolitical to insist on this new concept of burden sharing for poor countries.

It is against the letter and the spirit of the Convention and a Protocol should not rewrite it when we will have to be convinced of the reality of efforts, after only the reiteration of promises up to now unkept.

A global partnership was established in Rio 92. Let us not kill it in Kyoto.

I heard a previous delegate saying " if you don’t deliver we don’t deliver". I would rather say instead " until you deliver we don’t discuss".