Copenhagen Discord/whitewash
Posted on | December 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8423097.stm
US President Barack Obama defended the accord he helped broker with China and other main powers.
The non-binding pact, called the Copenhagen Accord, was not adopted by consensus at the summit in Denmark.
Instead, after two weeks of frantic negotiations, the 193-nation conference ended on Saturday with delegates merely taking note of the deal.
In other words, the ‘developed’ nations would rather ‘compensate’ for global environmental destruction than address the problems of rampant consumerism and a political system that refuses to address real, serious and unpopular issues such as Consumerism and a combination of electorally popular benefits and taxes that has socially-engineered the prevailing degradation of responsibility, understanding and vision.
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December 24th, 2009 @ 1:01 pm
"The Copenhagen Accord is based on a proposal tabled on Friday by a US-led group of five nations – including China, India, Brazil and South Africa.
It was lambasted by some delegations when put to a full session of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change at the summit.
A few developing countries said it was a cosy backroom deal between rich nations that violated UN democracy and would condemn the world to disastrous climate change. "