CLIMATE GATE, COPENHAGEN, THE CRIMATOLOGISTS RULE!

The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing
countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will
next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich
countries and sidelines the UN's role in all future climate change
negotiations.

The document is also being interpreted by developing countries as setting
unequal limits on per capita carbon emissions for developed and developing
countries in 2050; meaning that people in rich countries would be permitted
to emit nearly twice as much under the proposals.

The so-called Danish text, a secret draft agreement worked on by a group of
individuals known as "the circle of commitment" - but understood to include
the UK, US and Denmark - has only been shown to a handful of countries since
it was finalised this week.

The agreement, leaked to the Guardian, is a departure from the Kyoto
protocol's principle that rich nations, which have emitted the bulk of the
CO2, should take on firm and binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gases,
while poorer nations were not compelled to act. The draft hands effective
control of climate change finance to the World Bank; would abandon the Kyoto
protocol - the only legally binding treaty that the world has on emissions
reductions; and would make any money to help poor countries adapt to climate
change dependent on them taking a range of actions.

The document was described last night by one senior diplomat as "a very
dangerous document for developing countries. It is a fundamental reworking
of the UN balance of obligations. It is to be superimposed without
discussion on the talks".

Full story here.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/copenhagen-climate-summit-in-disarray-after-danish-text-leak.html

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