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EARTH MEANDERS: Kyoto’s Bali Successor May Be Little More Than a Carbon and Rainforest Market via Forest Protection Blog
Paying nations to be green diverts attention from necessary resolute actions based upon what is right and sufficient to minimize climate change
I have been an obstinate supporter of the Kyoto process; whose weaknesses, including non-universal participation and inadequate emission targets, are well known. Short of revolution, I do not believe alternative international political processes exist at this late date to enable nations to cooperatively and successfully reduce emissions. Kyoto and a possible successor beginning to be negotiated now in Bali provide the basis and mechanisms for binding emission cuts that can be tightened.
I do not see how emissions can be cut by the necessary amount (> 80%) in the requisite period of time (ASAP, for sure by 2050) other than through...
EARTH MEANDERS: Kyoto’s Bali Successor May Be Little More Than a Carbon and Rainforest Market via Earth Blog
Excerpt from Earth Meanders personal essay: Paying nations to be green diverts attention from necessary resolute actions based upon what is right and sufficient to minimize climate changeI have been an obstinate supporter of the Kyoto process; whose weaknesses, including non-universal participation and inadequate emission targets, are well known. Short of revolution, I do not believe alternative international political processes exist at this late date to enable nations to cooperatively and successfully reduce emissions. Kyoto and a possible successor beginning to be negotiated now in Bali provide the basis and mechanisms for binding emission cuts that can be tightened...
This essay discusses how increasingly the international climate focus has become financial trickery rather than...
PRESS RELEASE: Australia’s Kyoto Ratification Thrills the World via Earth Blog
By Climate Ark and Ecological Internet, Inc.
http://www.climateark.org/
Contact: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
Australia ratified the Kyoto Protocol [search] on climate change this week, receiving a deserved standing ovation from Bali climate conference delegates. Ratification resulted from the election of a new Prime Minister. Ecological Internet's global network helped a bit, campaigning on many occasions over the past decade for Australia to ratify Kyoto, rejoining responsible nations."Australia's embrace of Kyoto shows environmental campaigning should focus not only upon what is easy, but rather take principled long-term positions regarding what is necessary to achieve global ecological sustainability. If Australia can ratify Kyoto, certainly pigs can fly; and coal...
Bush to Host Rival Climate Talks — Obstruction or Overdue Leadership? via Earth Blog
President Bush has announced he will host talks with government leaders on climate change [news search] some three days after the United Nations holds crucial climate talks in September. Fifteen leading economic powers and carbon emitters from the industrialized and developing world [more | more2] have been invited from September 27-28 to discuss reducing carbon emissions. Golly. If the Bush administration really has had a change of heart on the need for mandatory carbon and other greenhouse gas emission reductions, it would be fantastic. I would not hold my breathe however. This administration has been criminally negligent in not only pulling the United States out of productively participating in international climate talks and agreements; but has sought to obstruct progress by the rest...
Report China to Share Burden of CO2 Emission Cuts via Earth Blog
UPDATE: Our hopes have been dashed as China has announced it has no plans to cap their carbon emissions but will instead seek to lower the carbon intensity [search] of its economy. This is the same lame U.S. policy. The number 1 and number 2 carbon polluters in the world are increasingly international pariah states.
Japanese media reports that China will soon commit to "participate proactively in talks on an international framework to fight global warming from 2013". This could include negotiated participation in mandatory greenhouse gas emission cuts including carbon dioxide. China will soon be the largest producer of greenhouse gases, yet China has not been obligated under Kyoto [search] to make carbon cuts. This was negotiated as a matter of equity, acknowledging that developed...