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 UK is a collection of small islands. The EC and Nulabour have destoryed the economy and wealth of the UK; the UK is by any definition bankrupt. As an undeveloped and bankrupt nation, please send me your contributions.
What happened to democracy? How many people get a chance to vote for the UN, the EC and these other NGOs? “No taxation without representation” came from you colonists. It is up to you to fight for the continuance of that ideal.
How many people are allowed to vote in favour of having a large slice of their wealth transferred to corrupt dictators such as Mugabe? Does anybody know how many African countries are run by corrupt dictators?
Does anybody know how many African countries are run by corrupt dictators?
ummmm….all of them?
We have Plane Stupids and Carbon Stupids and now we get the Utterly Stupids and shortly the Utterly Stupid Stupids!
What happened to Logic and Reality and even a hint of Democracy!
Phillip Bratby has it spot on!
The UK, through utter political stupidity is a bankrupt country. Time for a change.
C Colenaty (23:36:32) :
Basically, it’s about how, with the proper limits on limits,
China, India, Brazil, ect, will sign on to Copenhagen. They
will have something to wave around to the Senate that is
meaningless.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Mpd1ozuoa64/SsfKfCdH8QI/AAAAAAAABLA/yXMThgfEBuA/s1600-h/Cartoon+-+Cap+and+Trade.png
Consider Darfur, the Congo, Berkina Faso, Rwanda — the mass genocide, racism, abuse, and environmental degradation from within, including deforestation and exploitation of endangered animals. The West is supposed to compensate these people for a loss of dignity because the West burns gas?
I think it’s become quite clear what these people are about, and it’s not climate change. This is strictly about engaging in some sort of self flagellating punishment of developed and civilized nations and giving the wealth we’ve built to, lets put it plainly, all the non-white nations. Global reparations for committing the crime of capitalism.
Time to start buying your ammo, folks.
Roger Knights(23:45:56) :
If Copenhagen passes this draft, and if Obama and Congress take it seriously, one unanticipated side-effect would be a revitalization of the 60’s-populist movement in the US to quit the UN.
You have a gift for understatement, sir.
A prize to anyone who can point to the long term success of any socialist project that has not involved repression of the individual.
US OUT OF UN
Time to eject the UN from New York, round up all the World Federalist Society fellow travellers across the country, strip them of citizenship and deport their socialist asses to Copenhagen.
C Colenaty (22:31:10) :
I’m still trying to find the story, but it wasn’t Obama that was quoted in the story. Rather it was Obama administration people – like Holdren or Chu.
Anyway, my recollection is generally good, but this was six months or so ago and a lot has gone down since then. This was from before the House passed its bill and may have been administration huff and puff to move them along, similar to what we are now seeing wrt the Senate.
Ron de Haan (17:22:33) :
Obviously it does not matter that the entire CO2 scheme is based on a hoax and people are forced to pay a tax which will grant a significant power to the corrupt UN and the corrupt regimes of the third world countries.
I think you forgot to mention the corrupt EU.
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Indiana Bones (20:16:20) :
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.
Well, capitalism is based on greed and socialism is based on envy. Not much to choose in the ‘moral’ part of it then.
But greed can produce wealth, and even the ‘filthy capitalists’ can’t keep it all for themselves; they need customers; envy is for losers.
Capitalists want to rob us; socialists want to rob us and [snip] our lives as well. As a member of the scum, of hoi polloi, on balance, I’ll take the former.
The trouble with these ‘do-gooders’ is that they alone are allowed to decide what ‘good’ is. The rest of us will just have it done to us, whatever the cost. And you can bet your bottom dollar it won’t cost the elite anything, quite the opposite.
Don’t give anyone power over you and expect from then on to be treated with respect (or “dignity”).
It looks like the writing’s on the wall. The Irish have capitulated, President Blair could very soon rule the Eurpoean Empire, which is going to achieve what Hitler failed to do – take over the good old ex-United Kingdom, and now we are going to have lethal “guidance” about living our lives in the forlorn belief that we will “save the planet” by so doing.
Where will it end? The world’s going mad, and the inhabitants are becoming so brainwashed it would appear they unable to stop it. We are driving ourselves to our own Armageddon, and all the time the planet is doing what the planet does – probably cooling, so assisting us all on our inevitable route to self destruction.
Thank goodness I’m older, rather than younger. I sorely pity those who will have to live in this “new” era of restriction, direction and control, at least we oldies have done more or less what we want to without let or hindrance.
What I find really frightening is the way we’ve allowed it all to happen. Too late, now. Prepare for a return to the Dark Ages, to strife, warfare, desertification, to pestilence and disease, and the collapse of society as we knew it.
Philip Bratby.
Democracy is always under attack wherever it flourishes. Here in Europe the Irish voted a year ago against the theft of democracy through the Lisbon treaty and were then forced to vote again to come up with the correct answerby the EU. Fearful of the future and the power of these unelected beaurocrats to withold their erstwhile lavish largesse the Irish have ceded soveriegnty for a final suck on the nipple of EU corruption.
A delicious irony now arises whereby Tony Blair becomes their imposed EU President and almost a century of hard won free rule is tossed aside for danegeld.
Relax! Not going to happen. The tide has turned, its about over, but the laughter and the hanging.
The UN has been captured by the majority of non democratic states there are 192 member states now voting in the UN, only 27 are true democracies, another 50 odd are flawed democracies. They are outvoted by the rest which are Authoritarian governments of one sort or another with vested interests blaming the Western block for everything.
The majority will always pass proposals that benefit themselves at the expence of true democracies.
Time to trim the bloated UN budgets by about 75 % we then might get some practical proposals, flowing from this increasingly corrupt and disfunctional organisation.
http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/DEMOCRACY_TABLE_2007_v3.pdf
“and [snip] our lives as well.”
They are probably planning this also. After all, “there are far too many humans on the planet.” (These people used to be called ‘cranks’)
{Ah! my first [snip]. Takes me back forty-odd years to the memory of my first [snip].}
There seems to be a huge disconnect between those Coop-in-heaven words and the fact that carbon trading credits have gone from $7 a tonne (May 2008) to currently ten cents a tonne.
This seems like a war between those who tell others what to do and believe, whether in government, media, or scientific institutions, who have given up personal opinions to the velvet voice of “authority” and have not investigated the truth of the science outside what the institutions say, and folk who think for themselves and run their own businesses and use far less energy telling others what to believe.
This is making me think of the Pied Piper. I think the Pied Piper is the true scientist, who overcame the original problem of the rats / you-name-it. I think that the coin with which he was not paid is the freedom to follow his research wherever it led. Since he was not “paid” by the authorities he is now piping the tune that is leading their children into the mountain.
LarryOldtimer(22:39:16) :
It’s beginning to look like . . . France, circa 1789
The extortionist needs to bear in mind that the intended victim is not always going to be compliant with the plan…
The key question for this is simple:
‘Who monitors each country and who enforces the punishments for transgression?’
If it’s going to be the UN, then do you think that people should be given a VOTE on that??
This is just like the ‘Lisbon Treaty’ in the EU: the politicians have NO INTENTION of letting the people decide.
And in my opinion, politicians who do not understand that, for the most critical decisions, the people decide, give up politics.
And get a job with Goldman Sachs, who should be paying their salary for what is going on here………
Well, Carol Browner says no climate bill before copenhagen. Doh.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/03/us/politics/03climate.html?_r=1
but
“To signal its determination, the administration announced Wednesday that it was planning new rules to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from hundreds of power plants and large industrial factories, regardless of Congressional action.”
But I wouldn’t worry too much–yet. The folks over at dotearth seem very depressed. Andy had requested folks to give a list of reasons why Obama will or will not go himself to Copenhagen. I don’t know if this is specifically in response to that request, but Pat Michaels sent Andy a note which he posted in comments:
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Sent by Pat Michaels by email:
1. Cap and trade is not getting out of the Senate in any meaningful form. EPA will announce its own emissions reduction timetable (without a specific mechanism). The purpose is to give Obama something to take to Copenhagen.
2. The lack of a specific mechanism is required to stave off immediate litigation, which would impact Obama’s credibility.
3. Obama will descend upon a “deadlocked” Copenhagen, and
4. Some type of “agreement” will miraculously appear, in which China and India announce some “intent” to reduce future emissions on a schedule that lags that agreed to by the EU–which will impose restrictions upon itself slightly more intensive than what EPA announces.
5. All will declare victory. Obama will be the savior.
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Heh
10/10 to me me means full – of nonsense ?
From what I can tell, this piece of “paper” amounts to nothing less than a suicide pact for the Developed Countries (US in particular). Don’t know about anyone else, but I have no intention of blowing my own brains out. So my response to the UN, etc. is: BITE ME.
US Signatories may finally put an end to the control paradigm, demicans and republicrats alike… one can hope 😉
I doubt there will be an agreement on emissions,but I suspect that a lot of money will be promised.A lot more money will be wasted by governments building windmills and solar for little benefit.They have won,it will be years before the effect of silly policies on power supply will be felt by the public.It’s such a good scam.Such a time range they have given themselves(mainly the UN)”warming may have stopped,but it will be back” they say.I can easily see it going on for another 20 years.