As Doha Climate Talks Convene, Report Finds Broken Promises
By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE, IHT Rendezvous, November 26, 2012
All eyes are on Doha, Qatar, this week as world leaders, politicians, academics and environmentalists gather to work on a global solution to climate change at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
O.K., not all eyes.
After deep disappointment at the Rio+20 conference in June, when nations wrestled with the related challenges of sustainable development, more and more people may be ignoring these global confabs.
Still, it is in Doha that the slow-turning wheels of global politics will try to devise plans to both mitigate climate change and adapt to it. "This conference is not merely procedural, it can also bring about important policy," said Martin Kaiser, head of the International Climate Politics unit of Greenpeace.
One important discussion during the two week conference - meetings start today and continue through Dec. 7 - will center on a new emissions cap-and-trade agreement ( which works the wrong way in actually not reducing CO2 Emissions, Ak Malten. Hit the link to learn why ) , as the famously flawed Kyoto Protocol is scheduled to expire this year.
My colleague Andrew C. Revkin posted this funny, very short video primer to explain the very complicated matter of climate treaties (above).
But how much of the talk - even the seemingly "easy" commitments to honor, like cash support to poor countries - are actually fulfilled? Not many, says a report to be released today by a British think tank. Some of the world's richest countries have failed to honor their financial pledges to some of the world's poorest.....
I just wonder when all of us, including the scientists, politicians, ngo's, and global companies, alike, but not excluding us, finally start to realize it is our heritage to our future children !!!
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