Climate summit ends with meagre result

[Dreamer128]

The 12-day United Nations summit on climate control in the Argentinian capital, Buenos Aires, has ended with a meagre compromise declaration.

After arduous negotiations, all that the nearly 200 countries attending the summit managed to agree at the eleventh hour was that they would reconvene next May in the German city of Bonn for an informal seminar of several days.

A more ambitious deal failed to materialise due to irreconcilable differences between the European Union and the United States. The EU was pressing for an agreement detailing specific measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. The United States, which rejected the protocol three years ago, only proved willing to hold a seminar, and stressed it would not be bound by any agreements.

A final deal was further delayed today by a last-ditch attempt by India, China and other countries with high economic growth rates to receive guarantees that they will not be forced to implement new emission targets, a demand they did succeed in extracting.

(rnw.nl)

[Sir Degrader]

Bah, bugger the sky. We'l live in cities under the ground, and after we kick the mole people out, we can steal their houses! BTW do you have a link for this?

[Dreamer128]

To this article? As it says: www.rnw.nl If you're looking for more informations, most newssites probably carry the story.

Amazing how the United States is to blame for the whole thing not working out [img]smile.gif[/img]

Kind of odd that the rest of the world all together can't do anything positive unless the US agree's...hmmmm sounds more to me like someone is trying to run a scam and the US is the intended mark.

[Stratos]

Where does it say that the US is to be blamed for the meager results from the summit?

Quite a number of nations point the finger, and the language in the article seems to be pointing that way as well.

[Azred]

They need us to agree, MagiK, because without us then any agreement made won't make any significant impact. They know we are central to any such agreement, so if their little vacation--I mean international summit [img]tongue.gif[/img] --fails, they can blame the US. [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img]

LOL good point Azred. [img]smile.gif[/img] But as we can plainly see by their own published reports...."developing Nations will continue to pour more and more huge amounts of waste into the atmosphere for hundreds of years yet. So focusing on the US and other nations that are already working to increase efficiency and reduce waste to become ever more clean and efficient
is pretty .....silly....in my opinion of course....

I still love the way the Meteorologists are not getting any press....seems their real world observations just don't fit the models....ahh well.

[pritchke]

Originally posted by MagiK: LOL good point Azred. [img]smile.gif[/img] But as we can plainly see by their own published reports...."developing Nations will continue to pour more and more huge amounts of waste into the atmosphere for hundreds of years yet. So focusing on the US and other nations that are already working to increase efficiency and reduce waste to become ever more clean and efficient is pretty .....silly....in my opinion of course....

And thats why the Robots decided they needed to protect man from man, or man from the conservativs. Oh!! Sorry just watched I, Robot.

[ 12-21-2004, 03:15 PM: Message edited by: pritchke ]

LOL if only Pritchke that might actually be a good thing for the human race......that or a plague that wipes out 60 to 80% of the population.....