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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The good news is our economy will have been destroyed, so….wait, where is the good news in that?
All Parties, … 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.
If you were wondering about this provision, it is because the Montreal Protocol mandates the use of greenhouse gases known to be thousands of times more potent than CO2.
I’ve been working on an article that explores how the Montreal Protocol in the name of saving the ozone layer, contributed to greenhouse warming. I’ll try and finish it today.
“The good news is our economy will have been destroyed, so….wait, where is the good news in that?”
Our economy is already destroyed. Now it’s just a matter of setting up the final phase of the power structure and the control grid.
I can’t help but notice that the implementation dates of these international treaties keep getting pushed back, so maybe there’s hope for us yet. There’ll probably be a climate change conference in 2025 that sets targets in 2050, despite the complete failure of previous treaties.
But I still am somewhat pessimistic and believe that we’ll pay through the nose for a while until taxpayers revolt and skid the leftists out of office around the world. By then a lot of the corrupt developing world leaders will have gorged themselves on western transfers, their populations will be no better off, and maybe the media in the west will have returned to a more detached, non-partisan approach to journalism.
Anthony in the ridiculae section you can included that one (initially in French from France 2, translation google, http://info.france2.fr/environnement/Nus-pour-protéger-le-vignoble-57786388.html
“Nudes to protect the vineyard
713 volunteers pose naked in a Burgundian vineyard to expose global warming on 03/10/2009
© France 2 Over 700 volunteers have put naked Saturday in a vineyard in Burgundy alert on global warming
They posed for American photographer Spencer Tunick, the call of Greenpeace, to alert the public about the dangers of global climate for viticulture.
“What you do is halfway between a work of art and civic engagement, it is you who write history,” shouted the director of Greenpeace France.
“You install a new balance of forces that guide the behavior of our politicians before and after the Copenhagen summit” on climate in December, they did Pascal Husting.
Pics from heat, hail … According to Greenpeace, the prestigious Burgundy vineyards are particularly vulnerable. “Here we are faced with the most absolute culmination of the concept of variety. The soil and climate are very important and the smallest changes in temperature will wreak havoc because there will be more of this fine internationally recognized taste, “warned Pascal Husting.
“If people are aware of the urgency, we must draw whistleblowing, for its part says the vintner, Fabio Montrasi, allowing the operation as a vineyard Fuissé (Saône-et-Loire) in Macon.
Marc, an organic grower of Macon came with his wife to raise awareness about global warming. “We realize we harvest more and earlier,” notes the fifties, which produces white Macon for 25 years.”
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I may add as a Bourgogne Wine lover, that I shall not drink that guy’s Fuisse anytime soon…
“(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.”
Dictators of Africa, Rejoice!! They are demanding 300 billion US for the “damage” that will be caused by climate change. Of course, their peoples could develop if only there wasn’t so much corruption and repression but that is another matter! This is money that will enrich corrupt thugs throughout the continent. Incredible that this is even being considered.
Jerome wrote about Australia:
“3. It’s small. Well, it’s population is small at 15M. ”
Australia’s population is just below 21M, it hasn’t been 15M since around 1981.
“Africa … should be equitably compensated ”
Another Nigerian scam ?
A bunch of self interested pollies would be the last people to expect to do anything for the good of mankind.
Dr. Burns:
Remember that the Nigerians are paragons of good governance compared with much of the rest of the continent (South Africa excluded)!
CO2 Tax based on…nothing!
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/10/02/lawrence-solomon-the-end-is-near.aspx#ixzz0SsCHnBRz
and
icecap.us/index.php/go/in-the-news
EPA, the Blob that ate America:
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2009/10/epa-blob-that-ate-america.html
I just want everyone to know that I’m very very sorry for my selfish ways. Who the h*ll am I to want to drive a car and warm/cool my home. Shame on me! It’s time I submit myself for salvation. Forgive me Al Gore, George Monbiot and others for I have sinned. You have the shined the light on the errors of our ways. It started with slavery in this country and now we continue to hold the rest of Africa in slavery today. (Sobbing out loud) Take my SUV, take my Plasma TV, take my oversized home and release the third world from its bondage. (sarc off)
Are we really this stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think we need to do a better job of educating the average American about what the UN is really trying to do here. Most everyone I try to discuss this with, have no idea what is really being proposed. The usuall response is ” we’ll shouldn’t we be doing something about pollution?”. They have no f**king clue about what this is really about. The same applies to the Cap & Trade nonsense. Wake up America! Otherwise your about to get something shove up your you know what!!!
Nothing new here. Read the bible. It talks about the history of people hampering, hindering , taxing and interferring with others they do not like.
I went to the farm in Kansas Monday. we raise enough beef and wheat to provide meat and bread for 800 people for a year. we do it with one combine, one very large tractor, one truck a pickup truck and a car. We have enough natural gas and oil to run the equipment for 200 years. You city folks mind your own business. We take only 18 cents of your grilled cheese sandwich. You pay 2 dollars. For 120 dollars worth of bread, I gross 6 dollars for wheat.
I bought my farm when I turned 19 and was also earning my way thru 12 years of university. If you live in a city in europe, It would blow your mind how many tones we produce on how little Petrol. It is up to you, You can’t raise food and we can. Mess with us and you will be in food lines like in ?russia or starving like in Africa reall soon.
What you see is what this whole AGW smoke screen is all about. It has nothing to do with CO2 ….. and everything to do with some gigantic experiment in global socialism. It is about forcing the re-distribution of wealth.
Whilst this, in itself, may be a laudable goal, it completely ignores :
a) the creation of wealth as a function of individual creativity which always thrives from NO or LOW taxes
b) the historical lessons of the abject failure of such wealth re-distribution schemes in the past (eg. communism)
c) the lessons from history of corruption, nepotism and the subsequent human suffering that ALWAYS occurs when resources are just thrown at a problem. Just look at food aid programmes.
And the linking of this flawed ideology to the concept that hydrocarbon energy, which has been the engine of wealth creation in the west, is something environmentally undesirable, is a morally repugnant obscenity.
It’s not going to happen – the Copenhagen meeting will be a fizzer – none of the right in the US, Europe, Australia etc are going to vote for anything. China and India don’t care a damn cos they are going to do whatever they like.
For those who think that Senate approval is necessary – think again!
The Obama Administration has already said they plan on implementing the treaty with or without Senate approval.
REJECT THIS [snip] WITHOUT DISCUSSION. WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING?
“Environmental refugees.” Would that include retired couples who go to Florida for the winter each year?
I guess this excerpt centers around the UN’s “World Day to Combat Desertification,” which essentially blames all of us in the developed world for causing deserts to expand. They have a new theme every year.
Here’s the link to this year’s observance:
http://www.unccd.int/publicinfo/june17/2009/menu.php
John Tofflemire (18:56:27) :
“(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.”
Dictators of Africa, Rejoice!! They are demanding 300 billion US for the “damage” that will be caused by climate change.
Wrong. The damage by the response to climate change will cause the damage.
…economic losses arising from the implementation of response measures.”
Tom in Tex:
It’s both. Look at the previous paragraph.
Doug in Seattle (19:40:43) :
For those who think that Senate approval is necessary – think again!
The Obama Administration has already said they plan on implementing the treaty with or without Senate approval.
I’m sure I read recently that the Constitution states that any treaty needs to be ratified by 2/3 of the Senate. That’s the same Constitution that every Soldier, Marine, Sailor, and Airman (past and present, General and Private) swears to uphold.
Seems to me that Obama may be over-reaching.
I want Justice!
Do not stop hammering them till this whole farce is thrown into the dustbin of history.
Out of Copenhagen I want a full admission man-made global warming does not exist and climate change is not our fault.
Anyone from that day forward who screams of a man-made world wide climate catastrophe should be completely shunned as a crackpot and a menace to the human race. If someone has some scientific evidence to present, let them air out all the facts and data on the Internet first, for all to see if it can float. All news stories of catastrophe on the issue should come with a required warning label. The MSM should be considered Unsafe and a Danger to your mental health at all times.
evanmjones (20:07:31) :
Tom in Tex:
It’s both. Look at the previous paragraph.
My eyes had glazed over and all I saw was the comment.
Doug in Seattle (19:40:43) :
For those who think that Senate approval is necessary – think again!
The Obama Administration has already said they plan on implementing the treaty with or without Senate approval.
Friends tell me that human evolution is being retarded by greed. But I wonder… Those who lecture on greed plan to implement their agenda by usurpation. How different is greed from political thuggery? This agenda has nothing to do with altruism and everything to do with religious cult and alienation.
It will not stand.
Doug in Seattle (19:40:43) :
“For those who think that Senate approval is necessary – think again!
The Obama Administration has already said they plan on implementing the treaty with or without Senate approval”
Do you have a link for that story?