New Copenhagen Accord Draft Drops 2010 Deadline, Keeps 2ºC Overall Temp Rise
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The furious negotiations of the final days of the Copenhagen conference on climate change has produced another draft of a potential Copenhagen Accord, which would drop the 2010 deadline for establishing a binding global treaty, but would keep the absolute upper limit of an eventual 2ºC global average temperature rise above pre-industrial levels.
The conference is now slated to go “into overtime”, as negotiations will continue past the Friday deadline, into the night and through Saturday. There is hope a comprehensive framework agreement might be reached Saturday, but there is already talk of a possible extension into Sunday, if a viable global way forward is not agreed to.
The COP15 project itself, the 190 nations involved in the negotiations, the 115-plus world leaders in attendance, the two-week long conference, the YouTube/CNN debate, parallel fora in Copenhagen and other cities, and the endless online discussion around the world, have made this conference perhaps the single most widespread debate on any topic in the history of human civilization.
That fact alone is a tribute to the complexities and the virtues of the information age, but it also signals the intense pressure on all those in attendance, to meet the expectations of their own populations and governments, the international community of nations, and of the eventual backward glance of posterity, through which future generations will judge those who succeed or fail at Copenhagen.
The new draft is likely incomplete, and will be modified multiple times, perhaps redrafted altogether, before any final vote is taken on whether to approve the language and/or sign a binding treaty. It appears increasingly likely, however, that no binding legal terms will be agreed at Copenhagen, rather a legal framework that will lead to another conference to adopt the final legal terms, sometime in 2010.
While the deadline for final treaty adoption by the end of 2010 appears to have been dropped, the retention of a binding upper limit of 2ºC global average rise in temperatures, above pre-industrial levels, means the time to act to start aggressive emissions reductions is set all the same. The longer the delay in agreeing to final emissions cutting targets and methods, the more aggressive those targets and methods will have to be.
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If some countries get some “crumbs” from the financiers, it is not worth getting an unelected world government. That is what this is, it is an IMF World Bank takeover.
These agreements are kept secret, because it is a fraud.
There will be a new world government.
The agreement and the money is for the financiers.
Why don’t people accept there is not enough gold to back any world currency, any world currency has to be a fiat currency. Money has always been a token of barter trade.
If the world’s nations were really, really smart they would join a new fiat currency of their own making, without the World Bank or the IMF: simply declare them bankrupt, because they are bankrupt financially and morally. They over-extended. They gave too much unsecured credit. They have bankrupted themselves.
That would be a fine outcome.
All this touchy-feely warm stuff is a fraud.
These financiers are the despots of the world. They have the germ warfare. They finance the wars. They sell the weapons. They get both sides to fight. They do the starvation by manipulating world trade. They do the genocide.
The Copenhagen back-room scheme for unelected world government is not the benevolent Star Trek Federation.