Chris Huhne: legally binding ambition, but slim prospects for delivery this year
Posted on 11/24/2010 8:25:00 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Keeping the show on the road" may be all governments can hope for at next week's UN climate talks, the UK admits.
Energy and Climate Secretary Chris Huhne said there was no chance of getting a legally binding deal at the summit in Cancun, Mexico.
The aim, he said, should be to get "within shouting distance".
Meanwhile, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released data showing that greenhouse gas levels continued their rise through 2009.
It follows publication of a scientific paper at the weekend suggesting that without new constraints, global carbon emissions will re-commence rising at 2-3% per year, following a brief lull caused by the recession.
And on Tuesday, the UN Environment Programme (Unep) said pledges that countries had made on constraining emissions were not enough to keep the global temperature rise within limits that most countries say they want - either 2C or 1.5C since pre-industrial times.
Chris Huhne: legally binding ambition, but slim prospects for delivery this year
Like many other governments, the UK believes there is an urgent need to turn these trends around through establishing a new legally-binding regime on emissions.
"We want to see progress [in Cancun] - we don't want to see a shambles that involves lots of name-calling," said Mr Huhne.
"If we don't get peaking of [global] emissions by 2020, the prospects for the people on the planet are looking pretty bleak, so we really do have to make progress on this."
Realistically, the government believes, progress could be made on issues such as reducing deforestation, financial pledges and bringing the unilateral carbon-cutting pledges that countries unveiled at Copenhagen into the UN framework so they can be properly analysed.
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Cancun, eh? Well, at least it won’t be snowing THERE!/s
Yeah, another posh resort for Globull Warming muckity-mucks to jet off to, nibble on expensive foods, and lecture the rest of us on "going green."
They’re going to play hell trying to park all those jets at that little airport!
We heard this same crap back in the late '70s saying if "something" isn't done, the earth would freeze over by 1990; different decade, differenet scam, same scammers!
If it is a UN meeting, the gas levels always rise
Pray for America
What in the world does that mean? Some kind of leftist double-talk? When are these creeps going to stop flogging this dead horse?
I have no idea what the words mean!
Stick all the global warming cultists on their favorite global warming barometer - the island of tuvalu.
If they can save the little island from being washed away by rising sea levels, then they’ll prove they have the answer. On the other hand should they drown, hey, that means their Rube Goldberg scheme didn’t work and the world is better off.
If these clowns were serious they would set an example by teleconferencing. The UN, U.S. Congress and all state legislatures should be conducting their business by teleconference.
If these clowns were serious they would set an example by teleconferencing.Do you hear that, MSM? Why aren't you ASKING them about this? Publicly and loudly?
Our media is the real travesty in this, and every, story.
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