I have been in Poznan Poland all week as the fourteenth Conference of the
Parties (COP14) for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
drags on. The goal, and it is a deadline, is to have a successor agreement
for Kyoto ready the minute the first phase of Kyoto (2008-2012) ends on December
31, 2012. There was a strong launch for this process at COP11 in Montreal in
2005, progress at COP13 in Bali last year, but this year, progress is hard to
find. This year in Poznan Poland, this conference has felt like treading
water, or worse.
http://greenparty.ca/en/blogs/7/2008-12-12/yes-we-can-goes-global
Some international reaction
Poznan: Canada replaces U.S. as "single worst" country
After eight years during which the United States was consistently deridedhttp://www.insnet.org/ins_headlines.rxml?id=34232&photo=
as the most obstructive force in international climate negotiations, Canada
moved into worst place today, receiving the "Colossal Fossil" award for having
done more than any other country to drag down talks at the UN climate
negotiations in Poznan.
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