With less than 5% of the Earth's population, the USA uses 25% of it's energy resources.
Press Trust of India
Saturday, December 8, 2007 (Bali)
A top UN official on Saturday expressed his worry that differences among the 187 countries gathered for the climate change summit had not been narrowed down sufficiently, and ''too many issues will slip into the high-level segment'' that starts December 12 with the arrival of ministers from these countries.
On the main point of difference, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer said, ''Some countries are calling for legally binding targets'' for developing countries after 2012 for reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) that are leading to climate change, while ''some other countries are asking for reductions by developing countries if they were helped with technological and financial resources''.
Asked to name the countries that had called for legally binding targets for developing countries, de Boer replied: ''Canada and Japan''.
He hoped the debate on this issue would come at 2009 - when the negotiations for a post-2012 agreement were supposed to end and not now, when the negotiations were supposed to start.
Asked to indicate the response of developing countries to this development, de Boer referred to the commitments already made by China in its national action plan and said: ''China has indicated that it could move further with international cooperation....
