Day 7: Update on Fossil Of The Day Awards

Canada has taken the lead today, yesterday they were tied with Ukraine for 1st with 4.

Yesterday night Canada won a first place for suggesting to switch the base year from 1990 to something more contemporary. This is so that their political numbers seem bigger, and is a complete fallacy.

Croatia also supported the Canadian initiative and won a first for it as well.

Second place: Russia, for saying their commitments are just a political action and not actually going to happen or a submission to the Kyoto Protocol.

A new award, The Ray of HOPE, an award for the country that did the most to save the future was award today to Tuvalu, the fourth smallest nation, with the third smallest population size, Wikipedia it for more information.

Tuvalu: To discuss the legal outcome of the COP. They must be legally binding and enforcable.

Some interesting facts. Of the 195 countries in the UN. 194 of them have signed the Kyoto Protocol. The remaining country is the United States of America. No don't be little them for not signing. They routinely, (at least some of their politicains do), point out how signing doesn't do anything, look at Canada. Canada signed on yet hasn't attempted to meet their targets. As well, I joined in on a Tar sands protest. The Tar Sands are TARnishing Canada's reputation, and in fact Canada is stalling climate talks and negotiations more than any other Annex 1 country currently. We were in fact ranked 8th out of the G8 on a 2009 ranking of climate change policy, past, present and future in a WWF report. Shame on Us!

Day 6 Continued, Day 7: SustainUS

I spent the majority of the day with the group that accreditted me to come here because they happen to be incredibly awesome people, even though they are Americans!

Here is a big event we did at the Americans for Prosperity meeting, which is an orginization that believes that the business world will take care of the climate problems. We were called, "Crazed Hitler Youth!" Awesome! Really hilarious by the way, since we ended up being the majority of this meeting...

http://bit.ly/4FAljl

This morning I was part of a protest that was amazing, I'm not going to spoil the surprise until I can find a video of it to post, unless you see it on the news first (crossing my fingers for this), so hopefully I'll get that out by tonight.