Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 06/08/2009 12:23:46 PM PDT by reaganaut1
What will it take to get developing nations to sign up to a global climate agreement?
A critical part of the answer, it seems, is cold, hard cash.
Wealthy nations are considering just how much poor countries should be paid to help combat global warming. Countries in poorer parts of the world like China and India are demanding that wealthier regions like the European Union and North America fund their efforts at developing clean energy technologies and help them adapt to the effects of climate change caused largely by accumulated emissions from the industrialized West.
Money to fund these efforts is seen as a precondition for reaching an agreement at United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen in December, when nations gather to hammer out a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol.
E.U. finance ministers meeting over lunch in Luxembourg on Tuesday are expected to discuss the thorny question of what would represent a fair amount, according to E.U. diplomats.
Even though the Copenhagen summit is just six months away, there are few signs that E.U. ministers are in a position to reach an agreement this week. Poland, for example, opposes using the principle of past responsibility for emissions to calculate the amount richer countries should pay poorer countries.
Indeed, some of the numbers on the table are substantial. In one of the scenarios that is expected to be discussed by E.U. ministers on Tuesday, rich-world countries would pay developing countries more than $140 billion each year.
(Excerpt) Read more at greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com ...
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Empty your pockets.
Legalized corruption, money laundering, and neo-colonialism in one neat and shiny package.
Nothing - they’re too poor to add anything to perpetrate a hoax ....
How about... nothing!
Novel idea, isn’t it?
Here is the solution.
Instead of giving them billions in which they will cheat anyway, we should drill here, drill now, pay less and offer our products to China and India.
Then we tell the Saudis and Iranians that they should either clean up their oil wells or close them down.
That’s how this gets fixed.
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are going it alone and paying for the Algore Boondoggle?
How much for us to buy these countries outright?
Oh yeah. Did NK think this up or was it the UN ?
Poor countries like the U.S.??
Zero.
Is that some kind of joke? China practically owns us.
you'll never make it as a politician!
When the current global warming cycle reverts back to global cooling, read mile high glaciers over much of north america, billions will starve to death, most particularly in poor countries.
Global warming is a great blessing to life on earth!
This kind of money could be a game changer, bringing clean water, sanitary waste disposal, malaria and other disease eradication to the poorest countries - save millions of lives. And instead allegedly “advanced” nations will waste it on junk science. Unfrigginbelievable.
How about we build them each a coal fired power plant, a malaria production plant and call it square.
You know, teach a man to fish and all that.
When countries don’t do what we want them to, we put sanctions on them. I don’t see why we need to pay anyone outside of this country to do anything. We don’t even pay our own people to consider the climate............we penalize them. The same should go to other countries. This money will only go in someone elses pocket. Maybe that’s the plan. We need to cut the funds off.
NOTHING from us! In case those pinheads in Washington haven't noticed - we're broke; busted; tapped out; insolvent; etc.
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