This is the draft of the Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty currently out of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change working group dated September 15th.
Thanks to Alan MacRae for providing it to me. To get an idea of the kinds of things being proposed, I provide it here with some excerpts below. Readers that wish to highlight some other excerpts should do so in comments.
Page 62:
33. Each Party’s national schedule shall include:
(a) A long-term national greenhouse gas emissions limitation or reduction pathway;
(b) A country-driven nationally appropriate mitigation strategy, differentiated in terms of the ambition, timing and scope of its mitigation commitments or actions, which could be, inter alia, project-based, sectoral or economy-wide.
(c) Each Party’s nationally appropriate mitigation strategy shall include:
(i) Except for the least developed countries and small island developing States,
quantified emissions limitation or reduction commitments for 2020, consistent
with its long-term national greenhouse gas emissions limitations or reduction
pathway, subject to regular review; and
(ii) Measurable, reportable and verifiable mitigation policies and measures to meet its quantified emissions limitation or reduction commitments for 2020, as appropriate, and to support its national greenhouse gas emissions limitations or reduction pathway, subject to regular review.
34. All countries prepare low emission development strategies. Note that further paragraphs would be required to describe in more detail their function and relationship to the national schedules described above and a potential facilitative/matching platform.
35. All Parties shall develop and regularly update and submit information relating to the implementation of their nationally appropriate mitigation strategies. Such information shall be reviewed and verified according to agreed rules and guidelines.
36. All Parties, except for the least developed countries and small island developing States, shall develop and regularly update and submit a national inventory of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol.
37. National inventories shall be:
(a) Undertaken in accordance with the latest agreed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories; and
(b) Submitted, reviewed and verified according to agreed frequencies, rules and guidelines.
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Page 122, Item 17 is quite troubling.
15. [Developed country Parties [shall][should] provide support to developing country Parties, particularly those specified in Articles 4.8 and 4.9 of the Convention, in order to allow developing country Parties to address issues related to social and environmental development, economic diversification, risk assessment, modelling and insurance to prevent the adverse effects of the spillover effects.] Alternative to paragraph 15:
[In the implementation of paragraphs 11 (c)11 and 11 (d)12 above (159.1 and 159.2 in FCCC/AWGLCA/2009/INF.1) , through the provision of financial resources, including for access, development and transfer of technology, at agreed full incremental costs in accordance with Article 4.3 of the Convention;
Recognizing that there are ways and means to reduce or avoid such impacts through careful and informed selection of policies and measures, to evaluate the effectiveness of existing tools, and to consider new ones, in order to assist developing country Parties in addressing these impacts.]
16. [Adverse economic and social consequences of response measures [shall][should] be addressed by proper economic, social and environmental actions, including promoting and supporting economic diversification and the development and dissemination of win-win technologies in the affected countries, paying particular attention to the needs and concerns of the poorest and most vulnerable developing country Parties.]
Alternative to paragraph 16:
[Adverse economic and social consequences of response measures shall be addressed by various means, including but not limited to promoting, supporting and enabling economic diversification, funding, insurance and the development, transfer and dissemination of win-win technologies in the affected countries, such as cleaner fossil fuel technologies, gas flaring reduction, and carbon capture and storage technologies.]
17. [[Developed [and developing] countries] [Developed and developing country Parties] [All Parties] [shall] [should]:]
(a) Compensate for damage to the LDCs’ economy and also compensate for lost opportunities, resources, lives, land and dignity, as many will become environmental refugees;
(b) Africa, in the context of environmental justice, should be equitably compensated for environmental, social and economic losses arising from the implementation of response measures.
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This COPENHAGEN TREATY was CREATED and WRITTEN by LEFTIST KOOKS,
who are trying to DESTROY our FREE MARKET and take away our freedoms
and rights. Climate change is part of NORMAL weather patterns that occur
4 times a year (winter,spring,summer, and fall). All that garbage about
CARBON FOOTPRINTS is all BS!!
This COPENHAGEN TREATY will require nations like ours (USA) to give up
its SOVEREIGNTY and to COMPENSATE THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES for damages
caused by supposed GREENHOUSE GASES generated by industrialized nations.
When OBAMA signs it in DECEMBER OF THIS YEAR, that will be the end of
our FREEDOM and the following important documents: THE U.S. CONSTITUTION and THE BILL OF RIGHTS. OBAMA is pushing CAP and TAX
which is a PRELUDE to this COPENHAGEN TREATY.
I pray this will never pass. This will never help the USA or any other country. Please Congress never sign this treaty, or any like it. Our forefathers never intended our Country to have anything, but freedom this is what they fought for & worked so hard for. The Constitution wasn’t just a pretty paper to put on a wall. It required blood, sweat, & tears, & much prayer.
Damn… where’s that killer asteroid when you really need it???? That should clear up every problem we’ve got…
The one thing that prevents everyone from having everything that they need is money.. remove money and you remove the needs…
Anybody that believes in this is idiots, What they are saying is because a country hasn’t develope because of their government or because of war that the rest of the world has to pay for it! We already give these countrys more money then they have ever seen without a treaty! This is just a prelude for a world order that Obama is going to sign because he only knows how to kiss ass! I cannot believe any U. S. Citizen would even go along with this! We have been limiting our CO2 emissions for a long time now without a treaty, and we would have continued to do so! Sounds like to me it’s just another way for a group of people to control the world!
But I can say one thing as far as giving up our country it will never happen get ready White House and Congress your days are limited! We have sat back and let you run this Country into the ground, But it is time for “We The People” to take back what our forefathers started for us. The day of reckoning is coming and it has been for awhile! Enjoy the power while you have it! Freedom is coming back and with such force like the world has never seen!
Joe Matthis you are so right rather you want to be or not! I couldn’t have put it any better but to say signing your Country away isn’t the solution! In the United States we have had a government that has been wanting to give this Country away for a long time! Only now they have been placed into power and I doubt it was votes that put them there! At least the last election, There has been alot of work in Washington to get us here and now the stand has to be made do we give in to the world order and go along like sheep! But Washington knows they can try but it won’t happen here! As Thomas Jefferson said “Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”.
You know this weekend I was driving by a farm in Michigan and the barn that was old and faded. But you could still read on the side of it”Get the U. S. out of the U. N.! Wow It had to be from the fifties or sixties. Just food for thought
If you want to make a storm rise, contact your congressman/senator and also sign the repudiation at: http://www.webcommentary.com/signrep.php .
It’s time to become active!
Interesting thing is….why are we expanding outwards in this manner when we can barely manage our highways , our poor , our health care…….We are a country gone wild….There is no need to sign a global treaty before this country can figure out how to communicate within its own local state and national governments..Its like an individual signing up for another credit car when they have five others ones they have figured out.
Oh and remember to watch Glenn Beck at 5:00
This is definitely pure redistribution of wealth, period. But this time it’s on a global new world order-style scale. Past practices of colonialism of undeveloped nations by ex-pats of developed ones can be debated by the leftists on numerous sociological levels (ex: corporate greed and exploitation of natural resources for “evil” capitalist gains), but when westerners colonized these areas, the indigenous populants’ standard of living increased substantially, both in terms of economic increases and health/survival issues.
Subsequently and inversely, when the leftist factions and cultural guilt-mongering elitists in academia and the media forced colonists to depart, since they were convinced that the indigenous “noble native inhabitants” didn’t need their Euro or Yankee influence anymore, and these natives were easily capable of fluorishing successfully on their own, they failed incredibly.
They regressed back to their old ways, like canibalism, drinking downstream from water that they defecated and urinated in upstream, improper agricultural processes (i.e. rotation of crops for soil remineralization, etc.), hunting endangered species into extinction, blanket Islamic conversion, and the end of using the “imperialist” supplied methods of birth and disease control, causing birth, disease, and mortality rates to skyrocket. Look at S. Africas decline, and especially Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). These nations will be new categories soon, like 4th and 5th world nations.
Without civilized influence and at least partial governance and/or outside monitoring of infrastructure, these 3rd world nations are doomed. Merely throwing western dollars at them is futile (see how well the welfare system has succeeded in US inner cities). Compare how the civilized world has progressed over the last few centuries compared to how sub-Saharan African, and the majority of Indonesian nations have regressed, especially under new “Islamic” rule.
This is not a racial issue, but a cultural…actually a lack of cultural, issue. Pull out all westerners, and especially western funding, and see how well these nations fluorish, indeed. Malthus’ theories, though they seem harsh by 21st century standards, are certainly correct. I say let nature take its’ course in these nations, without any, and I mean any, western influence and especially external funding. This is not genocide, but merely letting nature take its’ course. Isn’t that what the left wants, more nature? The hypocrisy of the socialist left is mind boggling.
Today I heard that the BELCHING BUFFALOES in our Northern Teritory are being blamed for much of Australias Greenhouse Gas Emitions and are to be CULLED to reduce our footprint.
WOW! How desperate can you get?
It’s communism for the USA if Obama signs that! Pray for the USA. Spread this message.
Our country will be lost forever to tarnney, we must stop 0bama fom signing this.
Hey! How about this satirical idea? We could kill off all the ruminants in Africa and stop tons and tons of methane from being belched and farted into the atmosphere. Then maybe the vast savannas could grow trees and sequester tons and tons of CO2. But then this might only lead to such global cooling as to again close the Berring Strait and we would have one more border to guard. But this might lead to great employment opportunities for the unemployed global warming (AKA climate change) nut cakes. But I digress for this is not a humorous thing as the proposed “solutions” to a non-existent problem are more dangerous than the very small chance that the alarmists might be right.
WE the people ARE F******@ur momisugly@@ur momisugly
viva la revolution! we need accept each others differences and rise up against the new fascist totalitarian state that was elected into office…
or else all humanity will become enslaved over time….
In order to build up their coping or adaptive capacity, developing countries
must pursue these overriding priorities to the best of their abilities. The maintenance of healthy
ecosystems and their services is necessary to maintain the life support system on earth in the face of
climate change, providing food and livelihoods, contributing to human welfare and enabling sustainable
economic development.
(page 7 article 3 last sentence)
This is absolutely ridiculous. Global warming is not real. The media is making a bigger deal about this than it really is. The corrupt governments of the world have taken this idea and run with it. They now have a way to control us and take away our freedoms even more, by regulating the amount of energy everyone can use. The major supporters of this bill are the ones who plan to gain money off of it.
The government if going to have energy ration cards which they will sell to the highest bidder, or the one who lobbies for them the most.
The reality of this fraud is being over shadowed by billions being spent in spin to major media groups who need the revenues. They do not care about the truth, but only the revenues from US taxpayers that have been paid out in grants to a network of organizations that Al Gore and cronies operate which are paying for the spin campaign. [Ironically, Gore was given over $500million to develop a high end luxury car (90,000US +) and with all his talk of outsourcing jobs needing to stop in America, his company will be in Finland.] It gets better. The Scientists backing up the claims of global warming have negotiated huge grants from the very people that are promoting the global warming scam. Start stock piling rice and beans people,… things will not be pretty in about a year from now.
In order to build up their coping or adaptive capacity, developing countries
must pursue these overriding priorities to the best of their abilities. The maintenance of healthy
ecosystems and their services is necessary to maintain the life support system on earth in the face of
climate change, providing food and livelihoods, contributing to human welfare and enabling sustainable
economic development.
(page 7 article 3 last sentence)
This is absolutely ridiculous. Global warming is not real. The media is making a bigger deal about this than it really is. The corrupt governments of the world have taken this idea and run with it. They now have a way to control us and take away our freedoms even more, by regulating the amount of energy everyone can use. The major supporters of this bill are the ones who plan to gain money off of it.
The government is going to have energy ration cards which they will sell to the highest bidder, or the one who lobbies for them the most.
More BS by the Obama Boobs to take us to the Marxist side. Someone has to stop this political nonsense and breath some common sense into this country,
they are already bleeding us into the next century.
MEN ARE THE STUPIDEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AND CAUSE MURDER< MAYHEM AND DESTRUCTION WHERE EVER THEY TREAD
How did this man slip by so many intelligent people or were the Conservatist, Repub’s and most of the “other” side sleeping and didn’t hear the words that Obama spoke: we need to change the way we look at things, the way we speak, the way we live, ETC.
What is wrong with the Dem’s –is it just power and more money or are they just typical politicians –what is wrong with caring for people in the most wonderful country in the world. PURE JEALOUSY ON OBAMA’S PART AND HE DEFINITELY IS A MAN-CHILD.. WE CALL HIM A PAPER TIGER!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our country is run by little man called Kevin Rudd…very dangerous man, who simply cannot wait to sign that treaty! God help us ALL!!!
I left communist country many years ago and now I live in one!
Very scary times.
Spread the word!
After hearing Lord Monckton’s bombshell of an interview with Alan Jones on Australian National radio blowing the story wide open it now comes to light that our Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has not only mislead the Australian Public but systematically denied them of any of the information they have rights to under our constitution. He has not taken us into his confidence and detailed what he proposes to sign us up for. Dorota you have hit it on the head. This is an instrument of communism. What I want to know is, apart from the obvious economic gains for the few, the opportunity for global corruption on an unprecedented scale, and the destruction of currently successful and free economies, what is the real agenda behind this?
Leaving aside the doomsaying, one matter is becoming very clear. There are way too many unconfirmed reports surrounding this Climate business. We should all ppreciate that the Earths climate has been affected by changes since day One. There is ample evidence that these changes have been similar course tactiles to a pendulum. How is it that we are now led to believe there is a runaway train that we need to observe and change.
Very few people believe the train is moving much, let alone in a run away condition.
Why are we all being told that we need to Rush in and sign. Why has there been no referendum, No debate No options.
I now really worry that in a small isolated position like Australia is , and given the ground swell we all saw against Mr. Howard and Mr. Bush over that War, one which saw Mr. Rudd and cohorts swept into power, we can only assume our Prime Minister
wants even more power… I say I can see a day coming… Herr Rudd.
Folks this guy is rushing us all to far, to quick and there is no way out once he commits us all.
Sorry Rudds a Dudd and I can’t see how he can be stopped unless we all tell him to Bugger Off!
The same old dream.
In 1970, the United Nations called on rich countries such as Australia to give 0.7 per cent of their wealth to the Third World – minus handling fees for the UN, of course. This was necessary to ensure “human dignity”:
(43) In recognition of the special importance of the role which can be fulfilled only by official development assistance, a major part of financial resource transfers to the developing countries should be provided in the form of official development assistance. Each economically advanced country will progressively increase its official development assistance to the developing countries and will exert its best efforts to reach a minimum net amount of 0.7 per cent of its gross national product at market prices by the middle of the Decade.
No go? Then let’s try again, this time wrapped in green.
In 2002, the United Nations called on rich countries such as Australia to give 0.7 per cent of their wealth to the Third World – minus handling fees for the UN, of course. This was necessary for “development” and to “conserve, protect and restore the health and integrity of the Earth’s ecosystem”:
Make available the increased commitments in official development assistance announced by several developed countries at the International Conference on Financing for Development. Urge the developed countries that have not done so to make concrete efforts towards the target of 0.7 per cent of gross national product as official development assistance to developing countries.
Damn. Try yet again.
In 2004, the United Nations called on rich countries such as Australia to give 0.7 per cent of their wealth to the Third World – minus handling fees for the UN, of course. This was necessary to ensure “peace”, “collective security” and a “more secure world”:
The many donor countries which currently fall short of the United Nations 0.7 per cent of gross national product (GNP) for official development assistance (ODA) should establish a timetable for reaching it.
Still not? Hmm.
In 2005, the United Nations called on rich countries such as Australia to give 0.7 per cent of their wealth to the Third World – minus handling fees for the UN, of course. This was necessary to ensure “millennium development goals” and fight poverty:
Ours is the first generation in which the world can halve extreme poverty within the 0.7 envelope. In 1975, when the donor world economy was around half its current size, the Goals would have required much more than 1 percent of GNP from the donors. Today, after two and a half decades of sustained economic growth, the Goals are utterly affordable.
Still not! OK, let’s go for broke at Copenhagen next month.
In 2009, the United Nations in a draft treaty calls on rich countries such as Australia to give 0.7 per cent of their wealth to the Third World – minus handling fees for the UN, of course. This is necessary to ensure “serious adverse effects of climate change as well as threats to their future economic potential due to insufficient access to shared global atmospheric resources”:
[Financial resources of the “Convention Adaptation Fund”] [may] [shall] include:
(a) [Assessed contributions [of at least 0.7% of the annual GDP of developed country Parties] [from developed country Parties and other developed Parties included in
Annex II to the Convention] [taking into account historical contribution to concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere];]
The excuses change, and global warming is the most recent. But the hunger for 0.7 per cent of your cash is a constant.