Climate Change – Political Leverage…
Talks at the Climate Change conference in Copenhagen this week have stalled after the discovery of a document leaked to the UK Guardian newspaper showing a secret agreement from the “circle of commitment” hands more power in climate control to richer nations.
The document is being interpreted by developing countries as setting unequal limits on per capita carbon emissions for developed and developing countries in 2050; meaning that people in rich countries would be permitted to emit nearly twice as much under the proposals.
The so-called Danish text, a secret draft agreement worked on by a group of individuals known as “the circle of commitment” – but understood to include the UK, US and Denmark – has only been shown to a handful of countries since it was finalised this week.
The agreement, leaked to the Guardian, is a departure from the Kyoto protocol’s principle that rich nations, which have emitted the bulk of the CO2, should take on firm and binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gases, while poorer nations were not compelled to act. The draft hands effective control of climate change finance to the World Bank; would abandon the Kyoto protocol – the only legally binding treaty that the world has on emissions reductions; and would make any money to help poor countries adapt to climate change dependent on them taking a range of actions.
The document was described last night by one senior diplomat as “a very dangerous document for developing countries. It is a fundamental reworking of the UN balance of obligations. It is to be superimposed without discussion on the talks”.
A confidential analysis of the text by developing countries also seen by the Guardian shows deep unease over details of the text. In particular, it is understood to:
• Force developing countries to agree to specific emission cuts and measures that were not part of the original UN agreement;
• Divide poor countries further by creating a new category of developing countries called “the most vulnerable”;
• Weaken the UN’s role in handling climate finance;
• Not allow poor countries to emit more than 1.44 tonnes of carbon per person by 2050, while allowing rich countries to emit 2.67 tonnes.
Developing countries that have seen the text are understood to be furious that it is being promoted by rich countries without their knowledge and without discussion in the negotiations.
“It is being done in secret. Clearly the intention is to get [Barack] Obama and the leaders of other rich countries to muscle it through when they arrive next week. It effectively is the end of the UN process,” said one diplomat, who asked to remain nameless.
Source – http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/08/copenhagen-climate-summit-disarray-danish-text
We are all concerned about the health of the planet, however many of us are very concerned that the emotional potency of the environmental movement will be misused to create a treaty that results in an all powerful world government, the members of which are not elected by the people.
Copenhagen failed because people were waking up that there was more than the environment at sake. The US is a dictatorship, as their Congress has lost its powers because ‘exective rules’ from the President prevail to the extent of inconsistencies between the wishes of the people through their congress men and women, and that of the Federal government. Whilst the environment is paramount to our survival the terms of our surrender as indviduals are still being negiotiated with the new world order.
For instance, to my knowledge no government anywhere has had the fortitude to ask its citizens their permission to be a subject of the emerging invasive security controls of electronic fingerprinting, scanning of the retina of the eye, and the naked body scanning of the masses – every man, woman, and child identified and numbered.
You may disagree with these treatments, however if you wish to engage in certain ‘FREEDOMS’ such as ‘travel’ than you may be granted the ‘PRIVILEGE’ provided you give up your ‘RIGHT’ to your ‘privacy and dignity’.
The other aspect is debt. There is an economic war being waged between various corporate alliances. These alliances have more money, resources, and power than many nations. If we allow our nation to become burden with debt beyond that which our children can pay back eventually we lose our nation to those alliances. The banks stole 26 Trillian from the Americans and now they lend it back at interest. Two words you should remember BANK HOLIDAY. When the doors close and later reopen things financially around the world will never be the same.
Best regards, Lawrie from http://www.thejoke.com.au
In economy there’s a simple rule: scarcity. The less you have of something the more value it has. Why do you think oil is geting more and more expensive? Because we are running out of it. And the people who own the oil companies are aware of this, so they are planing to replace this energy source with another that fits this scarcity pattern. They don’t like the envionmental friendly and abundant energy sources, like the solar, eolic, geothermic, etc. because they can’t control the value of this sources.
But the truth is there’s no need for these fosile fuels at all, because we have enough energy to gather from the sun and the geothermal sources. In fact there is plenty of every essential resource in this planet for everyone. ¿Should we pay for the air we breathe? Of course not, because there is plenty of it for everyone and no one owns the air in the first place. So we shouldn’t pay for anything because nobody in particular own the resources of these planet.
In these times I remeber the words of John Lennon: “imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can”.
The earth belongs to everyone.
Who owns the air? Well it seems you have to pay a quarter in China now for a breath of it.Oxygen shops are setting up now all over with various scented flavors of air.Maybe they can chem-trail the air out of existence.I still have to pay to blow up my tires.Maybe they can tax air like carbon traders do.That’s a boost for another air bubble in the bank controlled stock market. If THEY controlled our water the BAILOUT in that case would most likely be more expensive than an air bailout.That would leave only a VACUUM which the universe has plenty of already …and its FREE!(the vacuum that is.)