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Is The U.S. Being Hoodwinked On Climate Change?
Tom Harris (Bio and Archives) Thursday, December 6, 2012
Canada Free Press
Obama’s climate negotiator pulling America into a new Kyoto Protocol
On December 5, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change, Todd Stern told the United Nations Climate Change Conference now underway in Qatar, that “The Durban Platform represents an agreement for the 2020s and beyond—one that will be applicable to all and therefore have the potential to achieve the ambition we all seek.”
That is what Western politicians have been telling their citizens for the past year. They must think none of us actually read the Durban Platform. For if they did, anyone could see we are being hoodwinked. It would not be “applicable to all” at all. It would be another Kyoto Protocol.
Here’s why.
At last year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference, delegates, including those from the U.S. and Canada, endorsed the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action. Under this agreement, the American, Canadian and other governments pledged to work with the U.N. to establish by 2015 a global apparatus to force countries to enable legally-binding GHG reduction plans starting in 2020.
The Durban plan advances—“in a balanced fashion,” the U.N. asserts—the implementation of the December 2010 Cancun Agreements. Stern has stated that the Cancun Agreement “is a very good step and a step that’s very much consistent with U.S. interests and will help move…the world down a path toward a broader global response to changing ‚Äì to stopping climate change.”
