The 300-350 Show: Halfway to Copenhagen
At the end of the UN Climate Talks in Bonn we get a close reading of the state of play from Third World Network's Meena Raman. While the elements of a possible successful Copenhagen global climate deal are on the table and mainly come from developing countries, rich countries continue to ignore their responsibilities and offer weak cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that scientists have concluded are virtually certain to guarantee dangerous climate change.
Listen now at www.climateradio.org
Here's those climate-wrecking, unilateral targets for 2020 in full:
· Australia – not clear (conditional target of 25% but they are using a base year of 2000)
· Canada – 2.7%
· EU – 20%-30% - half of which could be offsets
· Norway – 30% - a third of which could be offsets
· Japan – 8% - no offsets
· New Zealand – "we’ll tell you later"
· Russia – "later…"
· United States – 0-4% (exact number is unclear) - mainly offsets
The IPCC’s 2007 assessment (now considered to be based on old science) is that industrialised countries should be making cuts of 40% at the very least.
Head UK negotiator Jan Thompson says 40% by 2020 is “laughable”
http://adoptanegotiator.org/2009/06/11/whats-laughable-about-40/#more-863
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In other news...
Heads of State Agree Historic Climate-Saving Deal
http://iht.greenpeace.org
350 Day
http://action.350.org/t/9532/tellafriend.jsp?tell_a_friend_KEY=4869
Emergency People’s Parliament Demands a 10% cut by 2010
www.campaigncc.org/
US Direct Action Database
http://beyondtalk.net/
IARU Climate Change Conference – synthesis report just published
http://climatecongress.ku.dk/pdf/synthesisreport/
At the end of the UN Climate Talks in Bonn we get a close reading of the state of play from Third World Network's Meena Raman. While the elements of a possible successful Copenhagen global climate deal are on the table and mainly come from developing countries, rich countries continue to ignore their responsibilities and offer weak cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that scientists have concluded are virtually certain to guarantee dangerous climate change.
Listen now at www.climateradio.org
Here's those climate-wrecking, unilateral targets for 2020 in full:
· Australia – not clear (conditional target of 25% but they are using a base year of 2000)
· Canada – 2.7%
· EU – 20%-30% - half of which could be offsets
· Norway – 30% - a third of which could be offsets
· Japan – 8% - no offsets
· New Zealand – "we’ll tell you later"
· Russia – "later…"
· United States – 0-4% (exact number is unclear) - mainly offsets
The IPCC’s 2007 assessment (now considered to be based on old science) is that industrialised countries should be making cuts of 40% at the very least.
Head UK negotiator Jan Thompson says 40% by 2020 is “laughable”
http://adoptanegotiator.org/2009/06/11/whats-laughable-about-40/#more-863
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In other news...
Heads of State Agree Historic Climate-Saving Deal
http://iht.greenpeace.org
350 Day
http://action.350.org/t/9532/tellafriend.jsp?tell_a_friend_KEY=4869
Emergency People’s Parliament Demands a 10% cut by 2010
www.campaigncc.org/
US Direct Action Database
http://beyondtalk.net/
IARU Climate Change Conference – synthesis report just published
http://climatecongress.ku.dk/pdf/synthesisreport/