Doha Climate Summit Ends with no new CO2 Cuts or Spending

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http://www.nationofchange.org/doha-climate-summit-ends-no-new-co2-cuts-or-funding-1355151591

The United Nations climate talks in Doha went a full extra 24 hours and ended without increased cuts in fossil fuel emissions and without financial commitments between 2013 and 2015.

“This an incredibly weak deal,” said Samantha Smith representing the Climate Action Network, a coalition of more than 700 civil society organisations.

“Governments came here with no mandate for action,” Smith said in a press scrum moments after the meeting known as COP 18 ended and the 195 parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) approved a complex package called “The Doha Climate Gateway”.

The Doha Gateway creates a second phase of the Kyoto Protocol to cut fossil fuel emissions by industrialised nations from 2013 to 2020 but does not set new targets. There is also no financial support to help poor countries adapt to impacts of climate change – only agreement for more meetings in 2013. Talks will also begin next year to create a “mechanism” to assess damages and costs for countries suffering losses from climate change.

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1. But of course.

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2. shades of fiddles playing and Rome burning

meanwhile the one planet we all live on is getting more uninhabitable for lif e.

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3. And in tomorrow's news:

Denver Climate Summit Ends with no new CO2 Cuts or Spending

COP75 ended today in Denver with no agreement on cuts in fossil fuel emissions or financial commitments between 2050 and 2055.

As the national representatives were boarding their ships at the newly-opened Port of Denver for their return home, the general consensus was that the talks had been full and frank, and that real progress on addressing climate change should be possible within the next 50 years.

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4. !

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5. "We felt it was a positive outcome", said UN Secretary General Chelsea Clinton . . .

"Certainly, more could have been accomplished at this round, but we now have agreement on a roadmap for meaningful emissions reductions over the next 20 years", Clinton added.

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6. I the face of increasing public dismay, President Newman

appeared on all networks to reassure the nation that we live in the best of all possible worlds.

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7. Yet another colossal waste of time, money & energy.

Well done USA, China, India and the rest of the useless obstructive greed-merchants.

> “Governments came here with no mandate for action”

Not quite: *some* governments went there with the deliberate purpose to *block*
and *defeat* progress - i.e., a mandate for negative action.

And, unsurprisingly, they succeeded.

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8. Doha - opinion

Interesting piece on the Doha summit here: http://oilprice.com/The-Environment/Global-Warming/The-Doha-Climate-Joke.html