It’s a whirling carousel of junkets for UN climate negotiators, as the latest talks kick off in Bonn. The UN knows that the climate game is almost up, so at the same time as lining up the next fabricated crisis… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Copenhagen’
New UN climate chief appointed
You can hardly blame Yvo de Boer for stepping down after the unmitigated disaster that was Copenhagen (see here). So the hospital pass has been handed to Costa Rican Christiana Figueres: Figueres, 53, the choice of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,… Read More ›
Copenhagen Accord: only 20 countries out of 192 sign up to declare AGW strategies
And with only 10 days to go until the deadline expires… But you can bet Australia will be one of them, being the school swot at the UN (something to do with Rudd’s job application for Secretary General in 2012):… Read More ›
Tom Switzer: The Climate is Changing
Another excellent article from Tom on the changing attitudes to cap-and-trade: Nowhere is the changing climate more evident than in Australia. Last month, the Senate voted down the Labor Government’s legislation to implement an emissions-trading scheme. Polls show most Aussies… Read More ›
Rudd's New Year delusion on climate
Spinning is what Labor does best, and Kevin Rudd is a master of the art. Copenhagen was a disaster – only rescued from achieving absolutely nothing by the presence of the Obamessiah himself, who cobbled together a flimsy, eleventh-hour non-agreement… Read More ›
Brazil legislates nearly 40% CO2 cuts by 2020
Oops! Somebody forgot to tell the Brazilian delegation that the Copenhagen Accord isn’t binding! Just as the world is moving away from carbon taxes and cap ‘n’ trade, the nutty Brazilians have followed through with their half-baked promises and actually… Read More ›
US: Democrats' threat to cap and trade bill
Democrats in the US are “lining up” to argue against Obama’s Cap ‘n’ Trade bill in the wake of the non-existent outcome at Copenhagen. If the US bill is sunk, or watered down significantly, the whole face of global climate… Read More ›
Carbon Sense: Climate crusaders conned in Copenhagen
From Viv Forbes at the Carbon Sense Coalition: The Carbon Sense Coalition today called on the Australian Parliament to repudiate the Copenhagen giveaways promised by PM Rudd to the failed states of Africa and the welfare beggars of the islands…. Read More ›
Copenhagen: UN appeals for calm after "bust-up"
With the air thick with blame and recrimination, and with any hope of a global deal disappearing faster than a Himalayan glacier, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer has appealed to the various factions to stop bickering: “We need to… Read More ›
Copenhagen: climate alliance crumbles
When did it finish? Last Friday? What day is it now, Wednesday? Five days later? A week is a long time in climate change negotiations: Cracks emerged on Tuesday in the alliance on climate change formed at the Copenhagen conference… Read More ›
