Personally according to what I know from my personal experience, the www.gaurdian.co.uk newspaper, and the www.huffingtonpost.com as well as many other sources.
I am blaming the lack of success on China primely, then the United States of America, India, and the EU. The developed nations are not solely to blame on the lack of success, China the worlds biggest emitter, and most likely the main power in this century was the biggest problem. No I am not cutting Obama, or developed countries any slack. The current initiatives by protesters, and most news articles have a lack of focus on the emerging developing nations like China and India's move to block this climate treaty.
Although being from Canada I'm still very mad at my government for it's horrible stance and negative impact at this climate summit.
Showing posts with label United States of America. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
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!
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!
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