EMM News Explorer: Todd Stern

[-said]: [In drawing up] the Kyoto protocol, there was a period of a year to year and a half of scoping out so I expect that will go on ... for a year or two,

smh 14-DEC-11

[-told]: I don't think it's going to have a big impact on the shape of a new regime and the nature of the new negotiations,

alertnet 14-DEC-11

[ said]: I think that we actually have a very positive and very substantive and very cordial relationship that's now for me three years old between the US and China,

france24 14-DEC-11

[-said]: If the discussion is what’s going to be in a new regime that includes everybody, that’s got developed and developing countries in and how that’s going to get structured, I don’t actually think that Canada being in or out of Kyoto is going to really have a big effect,

dawn 14-DEC-11

[-said]: I think Kyoto, it’s fair to say, is more the past than the future,

dawn 14-DEC-11

[-said]: I think Kyoto, it's fair to say, is more the past than the future,

smh 13-DEC-11

[-said]: If the discussion is what's going to be in a new regime that includes everybody, that's got developed and developing countries in and how that's going to get structured, I don't actually think that Canada being in or out of Kyoto is going to really have a big effect,

smh 13-DEC-11

[ said]: We got the kind of symmetry that we had been focused on since the beginning of the Obama administration. This had all the elements that we were looking for,

alertnet 12-DEC-11

[ said]: All the major players are going to have to be in,

csmonitor 12-DEC-11

[-told]: [for Congress to pass],

upi 12-DEC-11

[said:]: I think in the end it ended up quite well.

news24 11-DEC-11

[-said]: For the first time there is an agreement to negotiate a legal accord of some sort, a legal instrument that is applicable to all countries -- that is a new thing. That means China, India and Brazil -- and there is no hedging in it,

cnn 11-DEC-11

[-said]: This is a very significant package. None of us likes everything in it. Believe me, there is plenty the United States is not thrilled about,

newschannel5 11-DEC-11

[-said]: The first time you will see developing countries agreeing, essentially, to be bound by a legal agreement,

news_com_au 11-DEC-11

[-told]: It’s nonsense to suggest that what we are doing is proposing a kind of hiatus in dealing with climate change until after 2020,

aljazeera 09-DEC-11

[ said]: It's an area actually which is among the most advanced in the negotiations,

CBSnews 09-DEC-11

[ said]: We...are going to be rapidly setting up the green fund,

wsj 08-DEC-11

[said:]: If we get the kind of roadmap that countries have called for – the EU has called for, that the US supports – for preparing for and negotiating a future regime, whether it ends up being legally binding or not, we don't know yet, but we are strongly committed to a promptly starting process to move forward on that.

guardian 08-DEC-11

[-told]: What the U.S. has been going over the last two years, with all due respect, has been showing the leadership necessary to drag this process into the 21st century,

montrealgazette 08-DEC-11

[-said]: I've heard this from everywhere — from ministers to press reports, to the very sincere and passionate young woman who was in the hall when I was giving my remarks,

npr 08-DEC-11

[-told]: What the US has been going over the last two years, with all due respect, has been showing the leadership necessary to drag this process into the 21st century,

news24 08-DEC-11

[-said]: We make a proposal, you can look it up, to the secretary of the COP, a full legally binding agreement which calls for a legally binding applies for all the major countries, cover the emission need to covered if going to have the chance to solve the problem,

xinhuanet_en 08-DEC-11

[ said]: It's not a time-out. I mean, it's not remotely a time-out,

voanews 08-DEC-11

[ said]: If we get the kind of roadmap that countries have called for, that the EU has called for, that the U.S. supports, for preparing for and negotiating a future regime, whether it ends up being legally binding or not we don't know yet, but we are strongly committed to a promptly starting process to moving forward.

voanews 08-DEC-11

[-told]: It’s not my impression that there has been any change at all in the Chinese position with respect to a legally-binding agreement,

newsday 08-DEC-11

[ said]: It's politically and morally binding,

montrealgazette 07-DEC-11

[-said]: A new climate regime cannot be premised on a 1992 global economic state,

allafrica 07-DEC-11

[-said]: If we take these steps and start building the new institutions needed for a pragmatic international regime, COP 17 will be a solid success.

allafrica 07-DEC-11

[said:]: There are about 20 parties who have serious issues with the fund.

guardian 06-DEC-11

[-told]: It's not my impression that there has been any change at all in the Chinese position with respect to a legally-binding agreement,

channelnewsasia 06-DEC-11

[-said]: In order for there to be a legally-binding agreement that makes sense, all the major players are going to have to be in with obligations and commitments that have the same legal force,

trust 06-DEC-11

[-said]: obligations and commitments that have the same legal force,

smh 06-DEC-11

[-told]: We are quite open to talking about what a legally binding agreement would be, but not accepting it when major developing countries are not committed to take it,

irishsun 06-DEC-11

[ said]: There's no Swiss cheese in that kind of a (legally binding) agreement,

montrealgazette 05-DEC-11

[-told]: We are quite open to talking about what a legally binding agreement would be but not accepting it when major developing countries are not committed to take it,

irishsun 05-DEC-11

[ said]: The United States is committed to meeting the climate challenge,

latimes 04-DEC-11

[ said]: We think over time developing countries will want to contribute,

wsj 28-NOV-11

[saying that:]: Kyoto is not on the table for the U.S.

xinhuanet_en 28-NOV-11

[ said]: We wouldn't do it (agree to binding emissions commitments) if all the major economies weren't also part of it in a quite full way. So in that sense, we would need to see that action from others,

allafrica 27-NOV-11

[-also said]: problematic.

reuters 25-NOV-11

[ said]: We wouldn’t do it (agree to binding emissions commitments) if all the major economies weren’t also part of it in a quite full way. So in that sense, we would need to see that action from others,

ipsnews 24-NOV-11

[ said]: But I've also said with respect to a potential future legal regime, we wouldn't do it if all the major economies weren't also a part of it in quite a full way, so in that sense we would need to see that action from others,

voanews 23-NOV-11

[-said]: We have worked very constructively with the Chinese… all major parties have taken steps together,

japantoday 23-NOV-11

[replied:]: We wouldn’t do it if all major economies were not in in a full way.

japantoday 23-NOV-11

[-said]: The regime of dealing with climate change in the international level has to open up and grow and include all major economies. And that's what started to happen in Copenhagen and happened more in Cancun,

chinadaily 23-NOV-11

[-said]: We wouldn't do it if all major economies weren't also part of it in quite a full way,

chinadaily 23-NOV-11

[-said]: don't see the Kyoto being a logjam,

chinadaily 23-NOV-11

[said:]: the US isn't one of the two tracks ... it's up to Kyoto parties to say what they want to do about Kyoto. The other track is that track that involves all parties ... That's the one we are in, that's the one we are the most focused on. I think whether in the future ... whether we will have two tracks is an open question. We will wait and see.

chinadaily 23-NOV-11

[replied:]: We wouldn't do it if all major economies were not in, in a full way

news24 23-NOV-11

[says:]: nobody takes it lightly.

voanews 23-NOV-11

[said:]: the U.S. isn't one of the two tracks ... it's up to Kyoto parties to say what they want to do about Kyoto. The other track is that track that involves all parties ... That's the one we are in, that's the one we are the most focused on. I think whether in the future ... whether we will have two tracks is an open question. We will wait and see.

xinhuanet_en 23-NOV-11

[-said]: We have worked very constructively with the Chinese... all major parties have taken steps together,

france24 22-NOV-11

[replied:]: We wouldn't do it if all major economies were not in in a full way.

france24 22-NOV-11

[-admitted]: The Kyoto Protocol is one of the toughest if not the toughest part of the negotiations,

euractiv 20-SEP-11

[-admitted]: The Kyoto protocol is one of the toughest if not the toughest part of the negotiations,

guardian 19-SEP-11

[-told]: My sense is that the EU is the only one that is still considering signing up in some fashion to a second Kyoto commitment period. Japan clearly isn't, Russia clearly isn't, Canada clearly isn't and I think Australia appears not likely,

eubusiness 19-SEP-11

[-said]: We could consider it only if it's genuinely binding with respect to all the major players, whether developed or developing, including China and others,

eubusiness 19-SEP-11

[-said]: to life,

news 28-APR-11

[ said]: I think that there are different views about the sort of degree of necessity or not of a legally binding agreement,

trust 27-APR-11

[ said]: It is my strong impression (a legally-binding agreement) is not on the cards yet,

businessday 22-FEB-11

[-said]: The Kyoto architecture -- by that I mean developed countries have obligations and no developing countries even including China, India, etcetera have obligations -- is not a sustainable architecture over the long run,

scientificamerican 21-FEB-11

[-told]: When the time is right, a legal agreement would be a good idea, and we are for it,

scientificamerican 21-FEB-11

[-said]: What we have now is a text that, while not perfect, is certainly a good basis for moving forward,

newschannel5 21-DEC-10

[-said]: But for China or other developing countries, at this stage those are going to be relative reductions. Those are going to be reductions against the so-called business-as-usual path that they would be on,

irishsun 15-DEC-10

[-said]: And so it's an important issue -- very different views, and India found -- India made a proposal that I think people fundamentally came around. Its ultimate language wasn't exactly what India suggested, but it was really quite important, and India did that,

financialexpress 15-DEC-10

[-told]: The fiscal situation is extremely tough in the U.S., it's tough in Europe and other places as well, and we are going to have to do the best we possibly can to carry out and make good on the fast-start pledge made in Copenhagen and reiterated in Cancun,

thestar 15-DEC-10

[-said]: I think India played a particularly constructive role in Cancun,

irishsun 15-DEC-10

[-said]: I think that India was very much faithful to its own national interests and faithful to its role in the G-77, but at the same time creatively looking for solutions to difficult issues in the negotiation in a way that could bring in both, developing and developed nations,

financialexpress 15-DEC-10

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