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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Let’s not ignore recent political trends in Europe. The left of center SPD had their worst defeat since WWII last week. Angela Merkel’s party the center right CDU can now put together a coalition with the right wing party the FCU. The vote was a mandate for lower taxes and the continued operation of nuclear plants that the Green Party wished to shut down. It is also a recognition that the heavy industry of Germany must be protected from moving to developing countries and that Germany’s reliance on Russian gas is a matter of national security. Germany while a leader in renewable energy has determined that the wind powered capacity that they have installed only has a capacity value of 8.5%. They are in the process of permitting or building 16 new brown coal fired electric generating plants.
In the last EU parliamentary elections 23 of 24 countries swung to the right. England’s labour party actually finished third. The Labour party is finished, cabinet members are jumping ship and it is expected that in May Labour will have its worst defeat in one hundred years. Eastern Europe still relying on cheap coal has won the first round of challenging the application of the ETS (emissions trading scheme) to their economy. Meanwhile the ETS has been a failure resulting in an increase in co2 emissions except for last year when a slight reduction was due to the recession. Pollution permits have reached a new low thanks in part to the job killing efforts of Europe’s socialists. European ETS has resulted in higher energy costs that along with a strong EURO puts the EU at a competitive disadvantage with the US. The real Copenhagen story is that the EU is primarily interested that we punish ourselves with cap and trade so that we(US) will no longer have a trade advantage. Not to worry though as treaties like Kyoto must be approved by 60% approval of the US senate. Obama knows it will not happen and is anxiously watching the result of EU elections.
Peter (06:57:38) :
What it amounts to is the poor people in rich countries giving money to the rich people in poor countries.
I nominate this as WUWT quote of the week – it surely encapsulates the intent of the Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty!
If I throw a flaming pile of garbage on your lawn, don’t you have a right to be compensated by me for any damages?
If so, there is nothing wrong with the language in this treaty.
If not, you obviously have contempt for private property.
REPLY: And if the person owning the garbage never elevated themselves to any modern ways, but used a cooking fire, burned their trash (except for this instance), and spewed soot all over the neighborhood for years, would not the reverse be true? – A
Time to look for a nice piece of vacation property on a small island in nice lake. As I’m building my cottage, I’ll declare myself a small island developing state, and the UN can pay for my renovations. Um, err, make that developments instead of renovations. 😉
You can’t help but laugh at what these crackpots are proposing.
Al Gore’s Holy Hologram (05:29:46) :
The only reason Blair is being made president is to make Brits feel comfortable with EU rule. It’s like an American political party using an ethnic minority president to do the dirty work of elitists from the ethnic majority. It’s a public relations strategy.
Good grief man. Blair, when he quit, was loathed in the UK (when not forgotten, still is). His successor/colleague is loathed now. Only the chatterati have any (sycophantic) regard for them. Few people here want to hear anything of them again.
I have located the perfect place to which they can soon (as possible) retire; in their native Scotland, well away from the chance to influence anything, and will remind them daily of the way they are thought of by we (soon to be redundant) voters:
60 15′ 47″N 01 24′ 28″W
An accurate definition of democracy is, two wolves and a sheep voting on who is for dinner. The word “democracy”, or any of its derivatives, does not appear in the US Constitution. A democratic political system is nothing more than a roadmap to socialism.
Zing, I guarantee you that if you throw a flaming pile of garbage on [b]my[/b] lawn there will be some[b] very unpleasant[/b] consequences coming your way [snip – sorry, policy]
[snip – sorry none of that sort of discussion here. instigating comment snipped also]
Zing – When that “flaming pile of garbage” was responsible for feeding the people in your house and providing your family with medicine, I think you’d overlook it, especially when your “lawn” is a gaping dump and you can’t afford to feed your family.
Sorry Anthony. Curiousgeorge had me curious.
The following is NOT an incitement to violence.
Rather it is a tribute, posted in gratitude to all those who have fought, and continue to fight the lies and the fraud of catastrophic humanmade global warming.
Many of those who resisted the global warming juggernaut have paid for their convictions through loss of income, and damage to careers and personal relationships.
Some have endured personal threats, and worse.
Thank you for your intelligence and your courage.
Best regards to all of you,
Allan
__________________________
“This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian:’
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember’d;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day”
– Henry V, William Shakespeare
Jack Green (07:46:14) :
Forced “Vow of poverty” based on the religion of AGW. What’s up with that?
Wait ’til they add “Chastity” and “Obedience,” too…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_5
Global warming/Climate change hysteria summed up:
“The phrase “two plus two equals five” is a slogan used in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as an example of an obviously false dogma one must believe, similar to other obviously false slogans by the Party in Nineteen Eighty-Four. It is contrasted with the phrase “two plus two makes four”, the obvious – but politically inexpedient – truth. Orwell’s protagonist, Winston Smith, uses the phrase to wonder if the State might declare “two plus two equals five” as a fact; he ponders whether, if everybody believes in it, does that make it true? Smith writes, “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” Later in the novel, Smith attempts to use doublethink to teach himself that the statement “2 + 2 = 5” is true, or at least as true as any other answer one could come up with.
Eventually, Smith is electroshocked into declaring that he saw five fingers when in fact he only saw four (“Four! Five! Six! I don’t know!”). The Inner Party interrogator of thought-criminals, O’Brien, says of the mathematically false statement that control over physical reality is unimportant; so long as one controls their own perceptions to what the Party wills, then any corporeal act is possible, in accordance with the principles of doublethink”
Here’s some of that great wealth transfer as practised by Mugabe when he seized white owned farms:
http://www.protwit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/zimbabwe-dollar-enfant-thumb.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Rsl_LePBeKE/SIemWzSTp0I/AAAAAAAACGY/TO4ATW3LMJQ/s400/Eggs+35+Billion,+Zimbabwean+Dollar,+by+Philimon+Bulawayo.jpg
Anthony, no need to apologize for the snip. Some things just make my blood boil and Zings comment was one of them.
Tom in Texas (12:10:58) : Can’t satisfy your curiosity, since I didn’t see your comment. Sorry.
Fred from Canuckistan . . . (06:38:19) :
Well that takes all the fun out of farting in public.
I mean, if you have to fill out a form, everyone will know who did it.
Onara shita no wa doitsu da?
Goodbye Iron Curtain. Hello Freedom
Goodbye Freedom. Hello Carbon Curtain.
Kaboom (16:51:32) :
Don’t hold back. Tell us what you REALLY think!
LOL!
I’m with you.
When did CO2, which isn’t flammable, become a burning pile of garbage? It can actually be used to snuff a fire out and is necessary for human internal respiration, let alone plant photosynthesis. If anyone wants to throw a pile of CO2 on my front lawn, even IF they can get it to light, please do.
Zing, the “burning garbage” image you noted above is Prima facie evidence that rhetoric along with imagery is persuasive in a sorrowfully large number of cases.
Zing asked: If I throw a flaming pile of garbage on your lawn, don’t you have a right to be compensated by me for any damages?
Zing, your big mistake is in thinking of C02 as garbage of any sort, flaming or not. In fact, it is anything but. For the truth about C02, instead of the obvious lies you’ve been fed, try here: The Lynching of Carbon Dioxide –
The Innocent Source of Life
It is the Warmists who in fact have no respect for private property. They are out to rob you blind, and you don’t even realize it.
Phillip Bratby (23:50:06) : said
“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.”
Please note that only I (and my heirs in perpetuity) am the only official and accredited recipient of funding for the undeveloped UK-whether it comes from private, or public sources. Do not be folled by Mr Bratby’s honeyed words-send your money to me only.
Looks like Agenda 21 has finally come true
tonyb
Beware what will be aded to the list of undesirable ‘pollutants’ that we will either be forbiden to use or will require compensation to be paid to some or other country.
The new chief scientific adviser to the UK Govt says about domestic heating: ‘setting fire to chemicals like gas should be made a thermodynamic crime.’
i am not sure if this is worse than an ‘eco’ crime but it sounds very bad to me. People wonder why sceptics think the warmists have lost the plot
tonyb
Allan M (01:28:48) :
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”.
Allan M,
I agree but I did not forget to mention the EU.
I posted Motl’s publication on this subject which in my opinion makes the case in a brilliant manner, however with a little, very little ray of hope that the Lisbon treaty can be prevented, if Klaus and the new British Government play their cards right.
If Lisbon becomes law, the Europeans are no longer a free people and we have to depend on the outcome of the struggle in the US entirely.
http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/10/ireland-surrenders-what-will-klaus-do.html
Africa, in the context of environmental justice, should be equitably compensated for environmental, social and economic losses arising from the implementation of response measures.
Do they mean a recompense for the damages done from the ban on DDT?
It would be far better if we all helped Africa get electricity.
Why create a welfare state? Does the UN want to ship the conditions of Oakland and Detroit overseas?
Henry chance (19:25:50) :
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.
The methods for doing this is what the UN should be making a plea to the world to bring to Africa, not ‘environmental justice’.