The Real Climate Change Conference

Posted on September 24, 2007
Filed Under Business, News, Politics |

While George Bush and his corporate cronies try to deflect attention from the UN climate change conference, the real thing is still happening and getting more headlines.

Al Jazeera has this:

Delegates from more than 150 countries are attending a forum on climate change at the United Nations headquarters in New York as part of the 62nd UN General Assembly.

Monday’s meeting, which has been organised by Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, wants governments to commit to a climate conference this December in Bali.

The Bali conference is concerned with a timetable for negotiations that aims to conclude in 2009 with a deal to accelerate and deepen cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases.

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The US rejects the Kyoto protocol, which requires 36 industrial nations to reduce greenhouse emissions from industry, agriculture and transport by an average of five per cent below 1990 levels by 2012.

The European Union (EU) has committed to reduce emissions by at least an additional 20 per cent by 2020, but concerns remain that without US co-operation, any plan will be extremely limited in its effectiveness.

George Bush, the US president, who has opposed negotiated limits on gases, will not take part in Monday’s meeting.

He is due to attend a small dinner after the summit, joining a gathering of key leaders hosted by Ban.

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