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Copenhagen: Day 8
Is Canada considering giving its oil and gas industries — particularly the tar sands — more leeway on greenhouse gas emissions?
A draft document obtained by CBC News and reported last night suggests the idea was to be proposed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper ahead of this week’s climate summit. That report inspired a “lie-in” today by Canadian youth at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, where international climate negotiations are under way.
"Climate impacts are already being felt — in the North, on our coasts, in our forests. Climate change is the greatest risk posed to the security and prosperity of present and future generations. By their conscious failure to act on the climate crisis, the Canadian government is knowingly committing us to climate chaos," said Megan McKeen, 18, part of the Canadian youth delegation.
Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice, in Copenhagen for the talks, told the CBC today that he hadn’t seen the draft but stressed that it did not represent the official position of the Harper government.
However, Prentice also said that the government has not ruled out special breaks on emissions for tar sands companies.
The draft documents suggested lowering the oil and gas industries’ required emissions cuts from 48 megatons below business as usual to 15 megatons below business as usual instead. The outcome would be greenhouse gas reductions three times weaker than the government initially proposed in 2007, said Matthew Bramley, director of the Pembina Institute's Climate Change Program.
Emissions from the oil and gas sector as a whole could increase 37 percent above 2006 levels by 2020, as opposed to the initial requirement of a 6 percent cut, Bramley said. On top of that, companies could comply by paying into a technology fund instead of reducing their emissions. If those changes were made, Canada would miss the goals its leaders were bringing to Copenhagen by a huge margin, he said.
Steven Guilbeault of Équiterre told reporters in Copenhagen:
“We think it’s unacceptable that one of the richest nations on the face of this planet is not willing to do its fair share when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We have one of the worst records of all 57 richest nations on the planet, second to last, just in front of Saudi Arabia.”
The Harper government has proposed a national emissions target of 20 percent below 2006 levels by 2020, equivalent to about 3 percent below 1990 levels.
Also on Tuesday,
• A new plan surfaced for the deforestation program REDD that for the first time puts a dollar figure on the table, but it still lacks funding commitments from developed countries to cover the cost. Experts following the talks say the United States and Colombia are part of the problem.
• African nations saw no progress on their calls for more ambitious reduction targets from the developed world, said Raman Mehta of ActionAid. “The developed countries have been dragging their feet,” Mehta said. Worse, added Dale Marshall of the Canada-based David Suzuki Foundation, developed countries are blaming the developing countries for the hold-up.
• Everyone is counting on the heads of state, who begin arriving on Wednesday, to change the game, said Kathrin Gutman of WWF.
The Climate Action Network, a global group of about 500 non-governmental organizations promoting worldwide action to limit climate change, offers a video overview of the day's events:
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Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Friday, Dec 18, 2009
Lord Christopher Monckton, reporting from the summit, has stated that the only goal of the conference was to implement the framework and the funding for a world government – which he asserts has been achieved.“That is the one thing that they are definitely going to succeed in doing here and they will announce that as a victory in itself, and they will be right because that is the one and only single aim of this entire global warming conference, to establish the mechanism, the structure, and above all the funding for a world government.” They are going to take from the western countries the very large financial resources required to do that.” Monckton said, adding “They will disguise it by saying they are setting up a $100 billion fund for adaptation to climate change in third world countries, but actually, this money will almost all be gobbled up by the international bureaucracy.”“The first thing they will do, and the one thing I think they were always going to succeed in doing at this conference is to agree to establish what will be delicately called ‘the institutional framework’. Now that is a code word for world government.
PS: We need to establish the truth about Climate Change from credible Scientists' stop these Climate Summits before we’re all Carbon taxed to death and acquire some UN and Elitist arrests! Like for example Al Gore! Folks we are actually dealing with criminals here! I don't know if the world figures them too big to arrest or what but our Sovereignty is in peril of being lost! Help me stop them by stepping up and making your opinions known! Check out what Government is doing behind your back at: www.youtube.com/ watch?v=VebOTc-7shU
Nothing To Do With Climate, You Want To Sign Up to Be a Slave?
Nothing To Do With Climate, You Want to Sign Up to Be a Slave?
This Copenhagen Summit has nothing to do with Climate Change or the Environment! It is about countries signing away their Sovereignty, so that they can be under the Communist Dictates of the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund that belongs to the Global Elitists!
The best deal for Canada is no deal and I hope Environment Minister Jim Prentice and Prime Minister Harper, take that attitude seriously!
There are four reasons the UN and IMF, Global Elitist Members Re: Ban Kai Moon ( Who has openly expressed his stong desire for Global Governance ), PM Gordon Brown, Bilderberg Member Henry Kissinger, Senior Bilderberg Member David Rockefeller as well as an unprecedented number of Dictators that run various countries who are members of the United Nations this Copenhagen Treaty that was designed to acquire four goals, the least of them being climate improvment or protection as Lord Moncton has stated!
(1.) To de-industrialize Sovereign Countries ( No Jobs keep you dependant on State ) ( 2.) Take your money and assets - Hence, Fraudulent Carbon Emmissions and Carbon Gases for Carbon Credits and Carbon Taxes! (3.) Take away your property (4.) Take away your Sovereignty and Freedom!
Request that PM Harper DOES NOT sign the Copenhagen Treaty, thereby causing Canadians to lose their Sovereignty and Freedom, email the PM at: pm@pm.gc.ca
You will be shocked by what you will hear in this main stream radio clip below! http://2gb.com.au/index2.php?option=com_newsmanager&task=view&id=4998
Check out what Government is doing behind your back at : http://www.youtube.com / watch?v=VebOTc -7shU
Protest the Inaccurate illegal Copenhagen Treaty: http://www.gopetition.com/online/32485.html
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