KYOTO - WHAT'S TO CELEBRATE?
While we’re on the subject of Kyoto, one group has issued a statement saying: “Kyoto: What's to Celebrate?” claiming it steals from the rich to give to the poor…
While many are celebrating the Kyoto Protocol's entering into force this week, others are finding cause for grave concern.
A coalition of NGOs, social and environmental activists, communities, scientists and economists from around the world concerned about the climate crisis, the Durban Group, charged that the 1997 climate treaty not only fails to cut greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert climate catastrophe, but also steals from the poor to give to the rich.
The Kyoto Protocol says that industrialized country signatories must reduce their emissions 5.2% below 1990 levels by 2008-2012. However, the group noted, the scientific community has called for global reductions of over 60% below 1990 levels by the year 2000.
What's more, the carbon trading promoted by the Protocol hands Northern governments and corporations lucrative tradable rights use the earth's natural carbon-cycling capacity, effectively stealing a public good away from most of the planet's inhabitants.
Just last month, Danish power utility Energi E2 sold hundreds of thousands of dollars of the rights it had been granted free by its government to Shell after mild temperatures kept the utility's carbon emissions below expected levels. (1) No such free rights have been granted to ordinary citizens.
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For further information/interviews: Heidi Bachram (UK) http://www.carbontradewatch.org
Jutta Kill (Germany/UK) http://www.sinkswatch.org
Winnie Overbeek (Brazil) winnie.fase@terra.com.br
DEMOCRAZY And finally, more on our favourite mediawhore Jeff Gannon. Where do you start? Well, he isn't a journalist. Most of what he published for 'fiercely independent' right-wing magazine and think tank The American Enterprise was nicked wholesale from official government documents. He isn't even called Jeff Gannon. He's called James Dale Guckert and he's a male prostitute. Funny old world. For two years, Guckert had been granted daily credentials by the FBI to infiltrate press conferences and lick the President's Oval office.
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