If no Bali, no MEM

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - The European Union threatened on Thursday to boycott U.S. talks among top greenhouse gas emitting nations, accusing Washington of blocking goals for fighting climate change at U.N. talks in Bali.

“If we would have a failure in Bali it would be meaningless to have a major economies’ meeting” in the United States, Humberto Rosa, Portugal’s Secretary of State for Environment, said on the penultimate day of the two-week talks.

“We’re not blackmailing,” he said, ratcheting up a war of words with Washington at the 190-nation talks. “If no Bali, no MEM” (major emitters’ meeting).

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