Posted on 11/30/2009 1:39:23 PM PST by george76
Hopes for a new global climate pact have risen after rich nations at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Trinidad and Tobago offered to help poorer countries bear the costs of implementing any deal.
Commonwealth countries are home to two billion people, or a third of the planet's population - including major global players like Britain and India, and smaller island states like Nauru and the Maldives.
The United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen joined 53 Commonwealth leaders to work on the issue of climate change ahead of next month's conference in Copenhagen.
"Success in Copenhagen is in sight," UN chief Ban Ki-moon told the summit.
He and Mr Rasmussen praised a move by Britain and France to launch a multi-billion-dollar fund for developing nations.
Mr Rasmussen said it was now "realistic" to expect Copenhagen to result in the framework for a treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012.
Much of the new momentum for a climate deal stemmed from a joint overture by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Mr Sarkozy.
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spruik
(sprook)
verb intr.
To make an elaborate speech, especially to attract customers.
Etymology
Of unknown origin.
Usage
“[Lee Iacocca] appeared in the first of 80 television commercials spruiking a money-back guarantee if people disliked their new Chryslers.” — Gideon Haigh; Corporate kings; The Times (London, UK); Mar 17, 2004.
You beat me to it. What means spruik???
Spruik. I learn a new word everyday around here on FR.
spruik———pronounced like sprook. Origin Australia a slang term. meaning to promote.
For those who ain’t into slang terms
Any objective info on just how well that Kyoto stuff worked out?
It means basically nothing. It’s a symbolic gesture, which is typically used when a Commonwealth nation suffers a coup.
The idea of suspending Canada over disagreement with a particular policy is frankly absurd. Those who made the call have absolutely no standing within the Commonwealth - it was Greenpeace, the Polaris Institute, and the World Development Movement.
>> I SPRUIKED YESTERDAY..........
Yeah? Well, I lost my breakfast when you “spruiked” that pic of Helen Thomas earlier today, there, “roadkill”. :-)
Hey, a new word from the land south of the elevator.
And they continue to ignore the real story......
what a splunge idea!
> Can you conjugate the verb “to spruik”?..
I’ll try. It’s most commonly used by our Aussie cousins, but it has some currency here in NZ, too — particularly in Auckland where I live.
I spruik
you spruik
he/she/it spruiks
We spruik
You spruik
They spruik
All spruik
It’s actually a beautiful word because of its onomatopea. It sounds exactly like its meaning. As does “chunder”, another Aussie classic word, which is to “spruik-with-food”...
Thanks.
I learn new stuff everyday.
Thanks, now I know what to shriek at the Watchtower people when they show up.
We can stare at each other blank-faced for a few minutes.
HOT OFF THE PRESS IN AUSTRALIA:
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,1,26424705-948,00.html
10AM UPDATE: TONY Abbott has promised a fight on climate change after rolling Malcolm Turnbull to take over the Liberal leadership.
Mr Abbott, Mr Turnbull and Joe Hockey contested a three-way spill at a special partyroom meeting in Parliament this morning. Mr Abbott won by a single vote, 42-41.
He said he was humbled but exhilarated by the win.
“We are gearing up for the fight of our lives,” he said at his first press conference as leader, adding that he was not frightened to fight an election against Kevin Rudd on climate change.
WHOOPEEE!!!
BTW, The LIBERAL PARTY in Oz are the CONSERVATIVES!
spruik? Definition please.
Thanks.
Liberals as conservative is confusing to us in the states, unless we remember Adam Smith and all...liberty.
“(sprook)”
That’s racist!
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