Gordon Brown has launched a UN climate change fundraising group alongside the Ethiopian PM, and has criticised climate change sceptics. Photograph: AFP
Posted on 02/13/2010 9:38:06 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Gordon Brown has launched a UN climate change fundraising group alongside the Ethiopian PM, and has criticised climate change sceptics. Photograph: AFP
Prime minister Gordon Brown today accused climate change sceptics of going "against the grain" of scientific evidence, as he launched a new group to raise billions of pounds for the fight against global warming.
Mr Brown will co-chair the United Nations High Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing with Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi.
The group aims to raise $30bn (£19bn) over the next three years - rising to $100bn annually by 2020 – to help poor countries limit their contribution to global warming and adapt to its effects.
Cash raised from state and private sources will fund measures to halt deforestation, encourage low-carbon development and adapt to rising sea levels, extreme weather events and higher temperatures.
Despite the failure to reach a legally-binding compact at the Copenhagen talks in December, Mr Brown today said that he believed sufficient offers were on the table to meet some of the conference's key goals.
"66 countries have set out their plans or targets for climate change, covering 80% of global emissions," he said. "Already we can say that if promises are met, the accord will lead to a peaking of global emissions by or before 2020 and make it possible for us to hold the trajectory of global temperature increases to 2C."
Britain continues to support a legally-binding agreement at the UN conference in Cancun, Mexico, later this year, he said.
The weeks following Copenhagen have seen the science behind climate change come increasingly under attack, following the hacking of researchers' emails and the revelation......
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Man there is a lot of stuff coming out...and the Politicians are plowing ahead....
Brown is the closest thing to Neville Chamberlain.
We have the Kenyan and the Brits, Brown. tsk tsk
They were railroading this financial redistribution scheme through, and it continues to plow on through the mud somewhat even after ClimateGate derailed it.
The Bankers were counting on it.
And TINO.
Cheers!
I honestly can't keep track.
Cheers!
He is of the Labor Party,...
WHEN is the UK going to dump this dolt!
World May Not Be Warming, Say Scientists: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7026317.ece
More like when will he be investigated? I would love to have the time, energy and resources to investigate how much money the political leaders of various countries have pocketed over this false notion. It may be time to launch a full scale investigation and as always just follow the money.
So.. either he’s nuts, or there are enough nuts in England that he can keep ahead with this?
Not sure...England seems strange right now.
Shutting down here.
Agenda 21 must go forward at all costs: damn the truth, full scam ahead!
To paraphrase Brown, “Science be damned; economic control uber alles!”
Gordon Brown, behind the curve again.
Time to call for an election there.
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