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Two of the fastest growing economies in the world China and India got a Get out of Carbon Jail Free Card from the 200 countries taking part in the climate conference in Warsaw. The two countries received vastly reduced goals for emissions as a price for their support of the final agreement.
This is a quintessentially global problem, so you have to have action all over the world. Climate change isn’t local the carbon you emit anywhere in the world affects everywhere in the world,” Stern said.
But even a narrow agreement at Warsaw, where close to 200 countries took part, could help lay the groundwork for a longer-term agreement in 2015. Negotiators are scheduled diamond princes cruise ship pictures to meet in Paris that year to discuss a potential global diamond princes cruise ship pictures climate change agreement.
On Twitter, Connie diamond princes cruise ship pictures Hedegaad, the European Union’s commissioner for climate diamond princes cruise ship pictures action, acknowledged the difficulty negotiators had in finding an agreement. “I’m sure there are more comfortable ways” to Paris in 2015, she sad, “but now we can move forward.”
Loss and damage was one of the key rows in the early stages of the meeting, as some developing countries demanded compensation from rich countries diamond princes cruise ship pictures for the damage they suffered from extreme weather. A compromise was reached with a new Warsaw international mechanism by which the victims of disaster will receive aid, but it will not be linked to any liability from developed countries.
Another success at the conference was the completion of a new mechanism to keep the world s remaining forests standing. Called REDD+, for reducing emissions diamond princes cruise ship pictures from deforestation and degradation, this has been in the works for most of the last decade.
But all countries admitted that most of the preparation work for Paris still remains to be done. Politically, the battle between the like-minded group – which is separate from, but claims to lie within, the broader G77 group of the majority diamond princes cruise ship pictures of developing nations – and the US and the EU will be key. For both sides, gaining support from the rest of the unaligned developing nations – some of which are highly vulnerable to climate change and are desperate for a deal, but others who are courting diamond princes cruise ship pictures economic investment from China – will be crucial.
It s all a useless exercise as long as the world s number one carbon emitter China and the number three India continue to receive special treatment. It isn t just that it puts the US at a competitive disadvantage. If these people were really concerned about carbon emissions, why come to an agreement that doesn t reduce CO2 by one single molecule?
I'm smelling flop-sweat, I am. The actual people doing the negotiating will be satisfied if they do no more than just keep things moving from one year to the next. Entire diamond princes cruise ship pictures careers have been built on this gas--CO2--since diamond princes cruise ship pictures the Rio Summit of 1992.