Posted on 11/21/2013 7:50:52 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Poor countries pulled out of the United Nations climate talks during a fight over transferring wealth from richer countries to fight global warming.
The G77 and China bloc led 132 poor countries in a walk out during talks about “loss and damage” compensation for the consequences of global warming that countries cannot adapt to, like Typhoon Haiyan. The countries that left claim to have the support of other coalitions of poor nations, including the Least Developed Countries, the Alliance of Small Island States and the Africa Group.
Poor countries have demanded that the developed world give them $100 billion annually by 2020 to prepare for the impacts of global warming, such as heat waves and droughts. Brazil even put forward a proposal last week that would have made rich countries pay for historical greenhouse gas emissions.
“The US, EU, Australia and Norway remain blind to the climate reality that’s hitting us all, and poor people and countries much harder,” said Harjeet Singh, spokesperson for ActionAid International. “They continue to derail negotiations in Warsaw that can create a new system to deal with new types of loss and damage such as sea-level rise, loss of territory, biodiversity and other non-economic losses more systematically.”
.....U.S. diplomats were specifically instructed by the Obama administration to oppose any attempts to create an independent fund for climate reparations from rich countries to poor countries.
“A central issue will be whether loss and damage continues to fall within adaptation or whether it becomes a separate, third pillar (alongside adaption and mitigation), which we believe would lead the [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change] to focus increasingly on blame and liability, which in turn would be counterproductive from the standpoint of public support for the convention,” reads a State Department memo..........................."
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Satire ... please
Reparations paid from wealthy nations to poor nations because of global warming??? This is what they want to see??? Really??? And we should do this because why??????
Why did Jesse James rob banks?
exactly
This is really just a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
Probably makes sense in today’s WH...
Are you surprised? That was always the goal of the warm-mongers.
“They wore T-shirts and gorged on snacks throughout the negotiation.”
Hopefully, they’re setting a trend for future meetings. If so, they’ll have to set out a lot more snacks. And napkins.
So, if I have this correctly, the poor countries wanted to leech off of us.
“132 Countries Storm Out”
So long. . . . Don’t let the door hit you!
Oh, really? Does he not like the idea of an independent fund? What's up with this?
I’d like to know what bank Algore keeps his billions in.
It sounds to me that Obama (Democrat Party/EPA) wants to have the power to position the sword of Damocles over certain businesses (get and keep their attention).
The hall smells better now.
That’s what I was thinking. No independent fund that he and his minions cannot control.
With the middle-men, our 'betters', pocketing their 50%+ handling fee during the transaction.
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