Thursday, November 5, 2009

No legally binding agreement, says UK


WORLD LEADERS: MAKE THE CLIMATE CALL

Isn't time we deal with the climate crisis?
Two years ago, the world's governments vowed to finalise a new treaty at next month's climate summit in Copenhagen.
Hurray! Something is finally going to happen! Right...? Well, not necessarily.
The UK government has recently said that a legally binding agreement would probably not be possible, but that they will come up with a political agreement regarding how to deal with the climate crisis. I don't even know what that would entail, but like Climate Secretary Ed Miliband says,
"...I'll be completely clear about this: I think an agreement without numbers is not a great agreement. In fact it's a wholly inadequate agreement."
I'm with Ed on this one. Anyone can say, "I promise to not be bad anymore", which they did...
"China has published a five-year plan, India has published proposals, as has Brazil - and a few weeks ago Indonesia said it would cut the rate of growth of emissions by 40%, doing 26% of that by itself (without outside aid),"
...But that doesn't mean they will actually do it. They should be able to at least start something small. They need to set boundaries for the leading nations! They do believe that within the next 6 months something will be created, which I hope is the case.
We don't have much time.

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