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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zing (10:24:49) :
No one really pays attention to people like you zing.
“Time to start buying your ammo, folks.”
If you have been shopping around, you will likely have found that folks started buying ammo in volume last fall. Prices are up, supplies are way down, and firearm sales are following the same trend. If it fires 5.56 NATO, it is likely flying off the shelves (assuming you can find one).
Imposing carbon taxes are one thing…collecting them is quite another.
“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?”
Of course they do. We put them on welfare and give them some stupid windmills while wealthy nations keep all of Africa’s metals, gems, oil and gas for themselves. What did you think this was about?
I am all for getting electricity to Africa but in order to do it, we would need to deforest the entire continent and pave it with solar panels. These idiots have no clue when it comes to environmental responsibility. Solar is always automatically “green” no matter how much habitat destruction it requires.
Oh, and we will have to put down all that pesky wildlife, too. Can’t have monkeys jumping on the solar panels.
I was offeed a job in Northern Rhodesia in 1971. Fortunately I did not take it.
But I did research the area. It was described as haveg infrastructure “similar to rural England” That is, modern roads, schools, hospitals, etc.
It was a significant exporter of food and minerals.
All that is gone now, destroyed by the past 40 years of incompetence, corruption, and violence.
What Africa needs is not our money. It needs our system of law and order, but it appears you can’t get there from here.
I have no politically-acceptable solution to the problems of sub-Saharan Africa…
When the British empire gave aid to India, Africa and other undeveloped countries, they didn’t just hand over the money to the “Big Man” like the U.S. does today.
Instead, they built infrastructure like railroads, roads and bridges using local labor, who learned how it was done, and kept a firm hand on the spending.
The result was a much better standard of living for the local people. That method also resulted in the empire being supported by the locals, who could immediately see the benefits.
On another subject [but still re: electrical power], here’s a thought…
Russia and the U.S. are on opposite sides of the globe, more or less. So when it’s daytime in one country, it’s nighttime in the other. Little electric power is used by either country late at night.
Why couldn’t a transmission line be built across the North Polar region so U.S. hydro power, for instance, could be used by Russia when the U.S. is asleep? And vice versa. The same could apply to other countries on opposite sides of the planet.
Everyone could double their electricity supply with no added infrastructure, other than transmission lines. An added benefit would be to eliminate the threat of cutting off power, as Russia occasionally threatens Georgia with; neither side would dare, on the M.A.D. principle.
HI Smokey
I conclude that you are talking about the “re-colonization” of Africa.
That is, first one imposes external law and order, through superior force.
Then one starts re-development, and tries to replace what was built over hundreds of years, and destroyed in the past forty.
BUT this path is not politically-acceptable today.
Rather, we apparently prefer to leave the Africans to their interminable tribal war and let them slaughter each other.
I support eight children through World Vision, several of them in sub-Saharan Africa. I’m not sure that this does much, but I feel better doing so.
Regards, Allan
“What Africa needs is not our money. It needs our system of law and order”
Hear! Hear!
The massive corruption and waste in most of these countries is staggering. Political leaders treat the national treasury as if it were their personal family trust. Real democratic institutions are required. This is difficult in cultures where bribery is the cultural norm and governments are often family dynasties.
The keys are a police force that isn’t corrupt, a functioning judicial system that isn’t beholden to the political leadership, honest elections, and politicians who can leave office in a dignified manner at the end of their term of office.
I am not sure we even have all of those here in the US. Considering how many dead/fake people ACORN managed to register and cast ballots for in the last election, I am concerned for my own country.
Until you have fair elections, nothing else is possible.
rbateman (17:02:32) : wrote
“Does this treaty (treated as a blatant scourge upon mankind) include penalty/pathway for the global shippers that burn massive quantities of fuel oils to profit by moving every resource/product under the Sun as far away from origin as possible?”
That comes under the Treaty of the Sea. Any country with ocean shores or has a navy or any ships plying the waters will be taxed.
How many times has science been hijacked by politics stemming from four words from a very famous scientist (Actually it was a relative of his, but he coined the phrase anyway)? I can name serveral occasions at about the turn of the 20th century (One in particular in 1912, UK, endorsed by Winston Churchill, fortunately, was voted down by MP’s. And in 1910 USA, stuns me still today that those in authority interpreted science in a particular way, for their own political gain. Sounds familiar.), but, the concensus was that African’s (And other people’s of non-european extract) were a separate spicies to the “rulling” European eliets. This particular bit of science was a contributing factor in the start of both world wars.
“Smokey (18:56:20) :
When the British empire gave aid to India, Africa and other undeveloped countries, they didn’t just hand over the money to the “Big Man” like the U.S. does today.
Instead, they built infrastructure like railroads, roads and bridges using local labor, who learned how it was done, and kept a firm hand on the spending. ”
Well that was at a time when the rulling British elite considered Indian’s and African’s as separate species, sub-human, animal like. The sad fact is the British empire was supported by the resources extracted from these lands, diamonds, gold etc etc and while there was investment, it was not sustainable.
The British, IMO, can be blamed fairly and squarely for the troubles in the ME (Just after peak British empire – circa early 1900’s), India, Pakistan and Zimbabwe for their meddling in those regions.
What is happening now is corrupt Govn’t, officials, Police and the Army allow the contruction of, as an example, roads to no-where, in exchange for mining rights to multinationls from other countries. Example is a 2Km road in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, that starts at the end of a dirt road, and ends at the start of a dirt road. The Chinese paid for this, but they are very secretive when asked about their mining interests, and why they import their own workers. One corrupt regieme supporting another, while locals go without, which leads to conflict. Sounds like a cycle to me.
Or other nations, Italy for instance in the 1940’s, removing culrurally sensitive artifacts and placing them, on display, in Rome, like the main steele (Obelisc) from Axum (Which was returned on 2005).
I do find comments on Africa from people who’ve never been there a bit destructive.
But, what Copenhagen represents, IMO, is that anyone who is not a member of the rulling elite are a “different spicies” and require a different set of rules to live by, ie, as another posties suggests, rationing.
Allan M R MacRae:
‘Rather, we apparently prefer to leave the Africans to their interminable tribal war and let them slaughter each other.’
Too true. I imagine that if common sense and sanity do survive on our planet that, in the future, historians will conclude that our time was the fulfillment of the childish and ineffective but feel good PC fix and that the adult response needed — to stop letting psychopathic, sadistic bullies run people to death and despair — was not only not considered as a viable strategy but was seen by the premiere political actors of the day to be intrinsically more evil than allowing the massive death of innocents. Now I can sympathize fully with the adherents of the Biblical view of the human condition who state quite sanely that we are indeed a fallen people.
crosspatch (20:10:51) :
The first thing they need is Accountancy. You can’t stop people stealing money until you actually know its been stolen. Someone should set up Accountants Without Borders.
“Allan M R MacRae (19:22:48) :
Rather, we apparently prefer to leave the Africans to their interminable tribal war and let them slaughter each other.
Regards, Allan”
Just to complete my earlier post. We used to do the same to ourselves in Europe (Before it became Europe of course). In fact, some of the “punishment” administered was quite barbaric (Hanging, drawing and quartering, in fact it became a public spectacle). It was these acts which lead to many of the laws, or at least the foundation of common law, founded in the UK which most enjoy today. So, if we want to start with comments of slaughter and barbarisum, we can look a little closer to home.
mbabbitt (20:46:35) :
Allan M R MacRae:
‘Rather, we apparently prefer to leave the Africans to their interminable tribal war and let them slaughter each other.’
Too true. I imagine that if common sense and sanity do survive on our planet that, in the future, historians will conclude that our time was the fulfillment of the childish and ineffective but feel good PC fix and that the adult response needed — to stop letting psychopathic, sadistic bullies run people to death and despair — was not only not considered as a viable strategy but was seen by the premiere political actors of the day to be intrinsically more evil than allowing the massive death of innocents.
I actually heard the prospective president of the EU, Blair, when UK Prime Minister, in a press conference, use the sentence “there needs to be a blood sacrifice.” He only seems to have said it once; I suspect he was told not to repeat it. What are he and his cronies planning, I wonder? Are we to have a new Pol Pot, a new Stalin, a new Hitler, a new Montezuma? It does betray some very strange beliefs.
Oops. Sorry. Can’t even spell my own name right. I’ve tried brain death but it doesn’t improve things.
Craigo 17:08:27
You might like to ponder on the following when thinking on Africa,
population, plus 1,000,000,000 (about 14% of the world total)
20% of the worlds land mass
96% of the population still using wood to cook with.
Now if we give them all a eclectic cooker? presto you have saved the world.
Patrick Davis (20:35:27) :
I have to conclude that the average individual in sub-Saharan Africa was much better off under British colonialism than under current regimes.
I do not dispute the ugly racism that you attribute to the colonizers, but it is irrelevent to this discussion. Neither do I dispute the mining of resources, nor the plundering of historic artifacts by Europeans, but it is also irrelevent.
What is relevent is mass murder and torture within African society today, the hacking off of hands, the child soldiers, petty dictators, disease, lack of sanitation, starvation, and mayhem. The horror, the horror.
Better to be looked down upon by a colonial Brit but still have a life, than to be tortured and killed by one of your own.
The following provides a realistic sense of Africa today.
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Outrage as Black Reporter says ‘Thank God for Slavery’
A black American author has sparked anger and controversy among black nationalists “by repudiating his African roots and thanking God his ancestor was enslaved.”
“Keith Richburg has been shunned and insulted for daring to reject the Afro-centric idealism which is an article of faith in black America. In Out Of America, published in February,1997, (hardcover, 288 pages; ‘Basic Books,’ ISBN: 0465001874), after he spent three years reporting from Africa for the Washington Post, Mr Richburg hurls down a challenge to black American leaders to stop deceiving themselves and the 35 million (black) descendants of slaves, that Africa is Eden on earth.
“I’m tired of lying,’ he writes. ‘And I’m tired of all the ignorance and hypocrisy and the double standards I hear and read about Africa, much of it from people who’ve never been there, let alone spent three years walking around amid the corpses.
“Talk to me about Africa and my black roots and my kinship with my African brothers and I’ll throw it back in your face, and then I’ll rub your nose in the images of the rotting flesh.’
“Richburg spent three years covering the continent’s senseless violence, corruption, bloody and incessant cruelties–machete-wielding Hutu militiamen, a cholera epidemic in Zaire, famine in Somalia, civil war in Liberia, disease, dirt, dictatorships, killer children, AIDS, terror.
“Had my ancestor not made it out of here,’ Richburg muses, ‘I might have ended up in that crowd…maybe I would have been one of those bodies, washing over the waterfall in Tanzania or maybe my son would have been set ablaze by soldiers. Or I would be limping now from the torture I received in some rancid police cell…’
Afrocentrism ‘has become fashionable for many blacks, Richburg notes. ‘It cannot work for me. I have been here, I have lived here and seen Africa in all its horror.’
“Mr Richburg’s every word is an assault on the group identity politics which have taken hold among black intellectuals and leads, critics say, to a Balkanisation of American society. Thinking about his slave forebear, transported in chains to the Caribbean and thence to South Carolina, Mr Richburg writes: “Thank God my ancestor got out, because, now, I am not one of them [Africans]. In short, thank God I am an American.”
“Borders, a Washington D.C. book shop, was packed this month for a lecture by Mr Richburg at which hecklers accused him of racial betrayal. ‘One man demanded to know if the author had a white girlfriend,’ said Mary Ann Brownlow, who organised the lecture.
“When Mr Richburg appeared on a talk show on Black Entertainment Television, Randall Robinson, leader of the TransAfrica lobby group and one of America’s most prominent blacks, refused to join the discussion.
“Jackie Clark, producer of the show, said: ‘We African-Americans have this vision of Africa as the motherland which we see in this wonderful light, but people who have lived there can burst this bubble. It takes courage to say things you know are going to outrage people, but I think Richburg wishes he were white.’
“Out Of America is a gruesomely detailed account of barbarism and corruption across the continent, particularly in Somalia and Rwanda. The author pulls no punches in condemning it, and no…myth is spared. When sketching how his ancestor was enslaved, he says it was first ‘probably by a local chieftain.’ The suggestion that African blacks were slave owners is anathema in America…
“Mr Richburg, who is now working for the Washington Post in Hong Kong, says he is not condoning the evil of slavery, but insists that condemning it should not blind blacks to the fact that good has emerged from it…”
Reviews of Richburg’s Out of America:
E.G. Long: “Africa is a painful reality. Over the past 21 years, I have lived and worked in five African countries: Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaire and Nigeria. ..There is nothing in Richburg’s book that I could contradict. I too, experienced the horror, and hopelessnesss of that continent. I read ‘Out of America’ in one sitting… ”
Steve Wishnevsky: “This is the voice missing from the current race ‘dialogue.’ Mr. Richburg is a courageous writer and clear observer…His is an authentic voice and should be listened to closely. America is the only land where the descendants of Africans have anything approaching freedom and economic opportunity.”
H. Luther: “So much of what you hear about Africa lately is from people who have never been there. People who want to romanticize what is in fact chaos and disaster…Richburg has written what he has seen, he has presented reality with great integrity. It is a must read. ”
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Patrick Davis (00:02:41) :
Hi Patrick,
This post of yours appeared after I had posted mine.
I have no disgreement with your facts, except that of relevancy.
What matters is the facts of Africa TODAY.
This is not about “moral condemnation” or “racial superiority”, nor about the slaughter that Europeans have visited upon each other as recently as the late 20th Century in Bosnia, or earlier during WW2.
It is about Africa NOW.
Without PEACE, LAW, ORDER AND GOOD GOVERNMENT there can be no chance for individuals in Africa to achieve a decent life.
So the RELEVANT question, which you may be able to answer, is how do we get there from here?
Sending shiploads of money to the current crop of brutal African dictators, as envisaged under the draft Copenhagen treaty, will not solve the problem.
Regards, Allan
Today, Lubos Motl published a comment on the Copenhagen Climate Draft and he nails it when he states, and I quote:
http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/10/copenhagen-treaty-draft-gender.html
“Pretty much all kinds of disgraceful far-left postmodern ideologies attempting to reignite the class struggle are heavily represented in the text. You can see that this stuff has almost nothing to do with solving a problem: it’s all about left-wing utopias to reorganize the society”.
Just think.
Our politicians have been brainwashed not to discuss the “science” behind the scare any more, “the science is settled” and other mantra’s like “the problem is much bigger that the current economic crises”.
“We have to act now”.
Well, in my opinion the only way to get out of this is to sound the alarm, shock everybody awake and tell them where this is really about.
This IS about a Marxist coup by the UN, all our strategic Government posts ARE infiltrated (including the Presidency) and we have to stop it now.
Here are some other UN blunders:
1. They honored Fidel Castro as a “Hero of the World” for his relentless promotion of brotherhood and solidarity in the world.
Ask his political prisoners who were locked up, tortured and killed
by the thousands what they think about the UN.
2. The UN Nuclear Watchdog El Baradei, yesterday called the “Nuclear Israel” the Number One threat for peace in the Middle East Region.
3. The Darwin Declaration (which needs no comment)
4. The alarmist declarations declaring human civilization the biggest threat to our planet.
This is about a Marxist Coup and our climate has nothing to do with it.
So, let’s send the Copenhagen Draft and Motl’s comment to the Senate in order to wake them up so we can stop this developing disaster.
Saving the US and the Constitution from a Marxist Coup is a most honorable way out of this swamp, don’t you think.
http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/09/global-warming-profiteers-exposed-agw-is-not-and-never-was-a-crisis/
Smokey:
Why couldn’t a transmission line be built across the North Polar region so U.S. hydro power, for instance, could be used by Russia when the U.S. is asleep? And vice versa. The same could apply to other countries on opposite sides of the planet.
I’ve read enough of you posts to think you must be joking here. Transmission loss within the USA is such that you couldn’t supply the entire USA from one location. If you go across the north pole, how do you support the transmission lines? On the ice that is continually shifting, melting and freezing? And OMG, the polar bears will probably electricute themselves!
Steve M,
I was speculating, that’s all. And it makes more sense than the monumentally stupid proposal to sequester beneficial CO2 underground, when the biosphere needs more of it.
If I gave the impression that power lines would have to go straight across the North Pole, my apologies. I think I said the polar region. Here’s a map that makes it clear: click.
Patrick Davis (20:35:27),
You misunderstand. I was not advocating colonialism. I was pointing out that just shoveling money into the pockets of the tribal leaders who run most of Africa will do no good. If we assisted in building infrastructure, the benefits would flow to the common folks.
And thank you for making a good point in your following post: the entire world was different back then. At the risk of the usual name-calling, slavery was accepted almost everywhere. In fact, being a slave was often preferable to the alternative. There were slaves of every ethnicity. It was normal, accepted, routine and Constitutional until the 14th Amendment. FYI, there is still slavery in parts of the world today. Where is the outrage?
In the past people occasionally sold themselves into slavery, and often sold themselves into indentured servitude. Basing your judgement of history by today’s standards only fans the flames of hatred. Instead, we should feel proud that we’ve gotten past that part of history.
Finally, Allan M R MacRae understands the basic problems facing Africa today. The UN couldn’t care less. In fact, the UN blue helmets routinely rape and murder the people they are supposed to protect. And it’s crystal clear that the United Nations would prefer to keep Africa dependent on the dole, financed by the U.S.
The logic behind this section of the document might be illuminated by this map, showing the countries most at risk for the affects of climate change:
http://dcprogressive.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/g-o-t-d-global-climate-change-risk/
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/15434
UN Climate Report, they lie!
By Marc Sheppard, American Thinker
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/un_climate_reports_they_lie.html