133 Countries Walk Out of Climate Talks Taking Place in Poland

[pam4water]

A quick summary of what happened today at the Climate talks in Warsaw Poland. It is a long click but the summary is in the first two minutes. The rest are world head lines.

I guess they were near an agreement on compensating country like the Philippines for climate change when it all fell apart. The developing countries walked out of the conference in protest.

Is the MSM covering this at all. I have a hard tame watching MSM.

A group of 133 developing nations have walked out of a key part of the climate talks in Warsaw, Poland, amidst a conflict over how countries who have historically emitted the most greenhouse gases should be held financially responsible for some of the damage caused by extreme weather in nations with low carbon emissions. The United States, Australia, Canada and other industrialized countries are pushing for the issue — known as loss and damage — to be put off until after the 2015 climate talks in Paris. "When you see developed countries being so bold to tell you that they are not even considering reducing their emissions, that they are not even considering paying for the costs that those inactions have on the life of others, that is really rude and hard to handle it politically," says Claudia Salerno, the lead climate negotiator for Venezuela, which is a member of the G77+China group that walked out. "We are heading to a point in which countries are not ready to take responsibility for their acts, and in this case, even more pathetic, they are not wanting to be." Salerno became famous at the 2009 U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen when she banged her hand against the table in an attempt to be heard, hitting it so vigorously that it began to bleed. Her country is set to host a ministerial meeting next year ahead of the 2014 U.N. climate summit in Peru, where it will welcome the input of civil society.
Transcript

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/20/as_poor_countries_walk_out_of

Also makes a good point about the world spending 5 times more on fossil fuel subsidies (~50 billion) than it does on alternative fuels subsidies. If you've read this far no need to watch the clip LOL

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3. hoo-eee. It'll be something to hear what Amy Goodman has to say about this tomorrow morning.

She's there.

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