EU terms for Kyoto extension unfair: Chinese negotiator

DURBAN, South Africa - The European Union's conditions to sign up for a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol are "not fair" for developing countries, but China is open to negotiation, Su Wei, the nation's leading climate negotiator, said on Wednesday.

The Kyoto Protocol, agreed in 1997, is the only international treaty that sets binding greenhouse gas reduction targets for industrialized countries. Its first commitment period expires in December 2012.

The United States never ratified the Kyoto Protocol, while China and India, as developing countries, are not obliged to meet binding emission reduction targets. Japan, Canada and Russia have already rejected extending the treaty.