Oh, this can’t be good. Dr. Tim Ball writes in with:
“What is going on here? It suggests they are feeling pressure for liability for their activities?”
From Fox News: U.N. Climate Organization Wants Immunities Against Charges of Conflict of Interest, Exceeding Mandate, Among Others
The organization responsible for managing a global cap-and-trade system worth billions of dollars for carbon emissions projects around the world is trying to get sweeping legal immunities for its actions, even as it plans to expand its activities dramatically in the wake of the United Nations’ Rio + 20 summit on sustainable development, which starts June 20.
Despite its name, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, legal experts ruled in 2006 that it was not to be part of the U.N. system of organizations that has enjoyed diplomatic and legal immunities since the end of World War II. Now, it is scrambling to figure out how to get them. A meeting of a UNFCCC subsidiary in Bonn last month agreed to forward a new draft treaty covering the issue to another meeting in November.
Internal UNFCCC documents, examined by Fox News, show that among other things, top officials hope to use those immunities to avoid challenges in the future based on such things as:
–possible conflicts of interest in their duties,
–breaches of confidentiality in their work,
–violations of the due process rights of those affected by UNFCCC actions,
–making decisions or actions that are beyond the legal mandate of the organization or its subsidiaries.
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Trust me:
(1) Be in charge of lots of money.
(2) Get ‘immunity’.
(3) Profit!!!
What go go wrong here? ;-))
Why do those that lie and cheat always want to be protected from their own actions or in actions?
Seems UNFCCC wants to achieve Tyranny.
That kind of document could be considered as evidence for a conspiracy to commit high crimes. Some enterprising young district attorney should probably start looking into more of the kind right away.
Despite its name, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, legal experts ruled in 2006 that it was not to be part of the U.N. system of organizations that has enjoyed diplomatic and legal immunities since the end of World War II. Now, it is scrambling to figure out how to get them.
Kojo Annan served at least one useful purpose, it seems…
Disgraceful.
One of the major problems with government is the lack of accountability. Politicians, quasi politicians and the civil service should be held responsible and accountable for their actions and if negligent they should be liable to suit. This would raise standards of decision making and tend to curb excesses.
There is a practical problem in that these people would not have the financial wherewithal to make good the damage that their actions inflict.
Nothing to hide, nothing to fear. That’s what we’re always told by TPTB.
If they’re looking for immunity it suggests to me that they have something to hide.
It’s good to be the king.
Yes. The politically connected class that would like to live their lives at our expense while dictating what we can or must not do wants immunity for doing whatever it takes.
If you listen to the broadcast of Jorgen Sanders’ recent report on what the world will look like in 2052, he justifies calling it a forecast and refuses to accede to suggestions it can only be a possible scenario. He then states that he can be so arrogant (his words) because there are already processes in place to keep international political, social, and economic decisions on his desired path.
That no further treaties are needed. Immunity is consistent with that declaration that all these machinations are in place and just going to autopilot. Just a lot of jetting around and meeting with fellow planning parasites in his world.
Who will acknowledge point blank they know nothing about their area of designated responsibility and then announce what the sought plans should be.
Pull the funding is the only answer.
Is it possible there is corruption in the UN, similar to what we saw with the Iraqi Oil for Food Program? Having lost their immunity, the officials are now scrambling?
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/14/un-cap-and-trade-system-good-for-china-and-india-but-who-else/
UN cap-and-trade system: Good for China and India, but who else?
The United Nations-administered cap and trade system to reduce planetary greenhouse gases through investment in “green” projects in developing countries has directed most of its billions of dollars in investments to China and India, two of the world’s most notorious polluters.
Indeed, China and India together have gotten more than 70 percent of the more than 4,100 projects so far registered for the system, while most developing nations, aside from a handful, have gotten hardly any at all, according to the system’s own accounts.
Perhaps they can do an IPO like Facebook and not sweat the small stuff.
“UNFCCC also hopes to manage a mammoth Green Climate Fund, intended to help mobilize as much as $100 billion a year for projects to lower global greenhouse gases.”
Connect the dots. They want to manage a $100 billion a year fund an have immunity from prosecution. Is there a better recipe for corruption?
ferd – I’m sure if there’s ever any proof it’ll be a long time in coming, but I’m still convinced that the Western Kyoto bunch agreed to look the other way at China and India gaming Kyoto up, down, and sideways as the price for their signing on the dotted line. We’ve already seen this with the credit-for-destroying-newly-manufactured-CFCs situation
The Kyoto miscreants were desperate to get those two on board.
What’s the difference between an UNFCCC official and a mosquito? One is a blood sucking parasite and the other is an insect.
Hmmm, we take your money and do whatever we want and are immune to all forms of legitimate grievance? Sounds legit.
Everybody wants to rule the world…
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine…
I started a joke…
–violations of the due process rights of those affected by UNFCCC actions,
–making decisions or actions that are beyond the legal mandate of the organization or its subsidiaries.
To me, these two are the scariest. Whose rights are they planning on violating? This in opposition to the very bones of the US Constitution. And we’ve got an administration that loves the UN.
So I buy into several investments related to CAGW, then I raise scare stories night and day that stampede people into those same investments driving up the prices. Later I quietly sell off at a HUGE profit. Then the whole scam craters.
Now I play my immunity card. [must be nice]
It would be nice to live in a world, where you can exercise authority without any responsability …
Pointman
Interesting. If organizations such as Defra on the UK take their policy guidance directly from UNFCCC, it would seem that anyone in the UK who has suffered a loss as a result of these policies could sue the UNFCCC.
King George used to think he could boss the colonies around–we now see how that all turned out.
These people are no different: They are indeed liable for their deeds; actions have consequences–especially if they use our money.
Elite jerks.
BTW, considering the UN wants control of the internet… Sites like this that are highly critical of UN organizations need to remain as visible as possible, and watch our backs.
Actually what they are asking for, in essence, is a grant of legal authority.
Why are we still enduring the UN, Obama, the Clintons, the Bushs, the EPA, and the global warming scam? Is it because we in no way other than the human form resemble our forefathers who fought and died and perservered to create this great nation? This whole nation has been corrupted and is being destroyed from within. As individuals we must begin making a stand by protesting every move made by these agencies and people who wish to control every part of our lives.
Previously there was Oil for Food, presently the UNFCCC Cap and Trade and other AGW schemes. There is no difference. The stated public description of any such program is irrelevant, it is the actual goals and intentions that matter.
* Wealth is involuntarily transferred from individuals to the bureaucracy and redistributed to others. The UN as middleman skims its cut.
* Power is diminished from individuals and strengthened in a central bureaucracy.
It is nothing more than International Socialism, the root principle of Communism, no matter how they dress it up or disguise it.
People watch the Godfather or the Sopranos and think they understand what organized crime is. Man are they wrong. The United Nations is the penultimate crime syndicate involving everything from racketeering to rape. It is without peer. The Mafia is small potatoes.
The greatest gift we could give to the future generations would be the complete destruction of the United Nations and the detention of every person involved for questioning under waterboarding. There needs to be a massive effort to determine the various money trails for all the grand schemes through the last 60 years, with every penny accounted for.