Climate summit set for rows on flying, cash and history

EU plans on aviation, "climate aid" and the West's past CO2 output are set to be divisive at the UN climate summit.
India has tabled a paper arguing that the EU's plan to include international flights in its emissions trading scheme violates the UN climate convention.
Meanwhile, technical analysis for a group of developing countries says Western nations have a duty to absorb CO2 over the coming decades.
It also says the West is not living up to promises on climate finance.
The summit opens at the end of the month in Durban, South Africa.
Earlier this week, the powerful BASIC group - Brazil, South Africa, India and China - agreed a common position during a meeting in Beijing.
Among other things, their ministerial declaration asserts that "unilateral measures on climate change, such as the inclusion of emissions from international aviation in the EU-ETS (emission trading scheme), would violate the principles and provisions of the convention and jeopardise the effort of international co-operation in addressing climate change".
From next January, airlines operating flights beginning or ending at EU airports will be included in the carbon pricing scheme.
The EU is not going to back down from the scheme at this late stage; so the Indian paper sets the scene for a new intractable conflict within the already strife-ridden climate negotiations.
05/11/11 Richard Black/BBC.co.uk

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