Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/04/2009 8:32:12 AM PST by opentalk
A legally binding agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions is no longer a realistic goal for next month’s Copenhagen summit, the UN Secretary-General says.
According to Ban Ki Moon such an agreement will not be signed next month and the most likely outcome is voluntary targets, which countries could announce but then ignore.
He said that several key countries were not ready to sign up to binding targets and that the best the world could hope for from the summit would be “political commitments”. Mr Ban said he hoped that they would be legally binding within a year but would be dependent on each country.
His comments, made in London, marked a significant retreat from the UN’s previous plan for a new treaty to be signed at Copenhagen to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. Mr Ban said: “It may be realistic if we think Copenhagen will not be the final word on all these matters. But if we agree on a strong politically binding commitment that will be, I think, a reasonable success. Then the post-Copenhagen negotiations will continue so that we have a legally binding agreement as soon as possible.
“Each and every country has their own domestic constraints when they go back — no country will be totally free, that is the difficulty. It is a very complex process including verification systems, targets and money. It is not an easy task. That is why I am saying Copenhagen is not the final word.”
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Hallelujah! Let's hope cap and tax goes the same way...
It is issues like this the reinforce we need to have the UN out of the USA and the USA out of the UN.
Not to mention that it would be hard to find 67 US Senators willing to sign their names to outright treason.
It’s not gonna slow down the streams of hookers, booze and drugs flowing to&thru the summit attendees.
HopenHagen in DopenHagen
No agreement? Now we’re all gonna die...
This is exactly the result the Chinese want. We all sign the big “Kum Bay Yah” treaty, with “voluntary” targets. Our targets become law through cap & tax. The Chinese, though, don’t have and never had any intention of meeting ANY targets for reduction of “greenhouse gas” but instead continue their economic expansion.
That’s the way the Chinese work: “We can always fool the foreigner” is one of their cherished maxims. And the Americans are governed by fools who will continue with dismantling what was once the greatest economic machine in history.
The great Lord Monckton wins!
It’s not going away. Just being temporarily postponed.
The Muslim countries absolutely mean to collect Jizrya from the United states....
Have we dodged another bullet? I hope, I hope, I hope ...
Now take your nationalized health care Obama and shove it where the sun doesn't shine.
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