Note: Today is the opening day of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change COP18 climate summit. Following in the footsteps of the World Trade Organization, the UNFCCC has responded to increasing protests- including last year’s “occupation” of the COP17 climate talks- by moving its annual summit to the authoritarian oil-rich kingdom of Qatar, which leads the world with the highest carbon emissions per-capita. Global Justice Ecology Project has attended, documented, and organized against false solutions at these climate summits since 2004; this “Doha Round” is the first conference since then that GJEP doesn’t have a team on the ground.
–The GJEP Team
By Stephen Leahy, November 26 2012. Source: Inter Press Service
In this Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2012 file photo, conference flags are displayed ahead of the Doha Climate Change Conference, in Doha, Qatar. Photo: Associated Press
DOHA, Qatar – Extreme weather disasters, including floods and droughts intensified by climate change, have totalled many billions of dollars in damages this year.
And much worse is yet to come, warned the World Bank, International Energy Agency and even the big accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (PwC) in a separate reports detailing the consequences of failing to make major reductions in the fossil fuel emissions that cause climate change.
Those reports also urged all countries attending the U.N. climate change negotiations here in Doha, Qatar to agree to do far more to reduce emissions.
“The U.S. does not anticipate increasing its emission targets beyond what has already been agreed to,” said Jonathan Pershing, head of the U.S. delegation at the U.N. Climate Change negotiations known as COP18. Continue reading
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