Breaking: Norway breaks impasse at world climate talks

[kgrandia]

An announcement is expected here at the UNFCCC climate talks in Bangkok today that the Norwegian government will commit to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2020. This is the first developed nation in the world to do so and it is a significant step forward in the negotiations going on prior to Copenhagen.

More: http://blogs.climatenetwork.org/?p=149

[tabatha]

1. Excellent!

[kgrandia]

4. Certainly is!

All week I have been hear completely depressed that nothing - zilch - zero - was happening and the BAM!

[Forkboy]

2. Bless them!

Now, let's get others to follow suit.

[dave29]

3. great news :)

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[kgrandia]

5. One more rec

Oh come on, could someone please give this one more rec and send it to the greatest - it's BIG news. As you can see I'm not too proud to beg :)

[excess_3]

6. Norway's scam is called LULUCF

LULUCF
land use, land use change, forestry
pert of the Kyoto treaty
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look here for something interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Treaty#Increase_in_greenhouse_gas_emission_since_1990

according to Wiki,
from 1990 to 2004
Norway's normal pollution is up 10 percent,
but is down 18.7 percent if you include LULUCF.

[kgrandia]

7. Huh?

But don't all countries get credit for LULUCF? Why would Norway's be a "scam" as you call it?

[excess_3]

8. they haven't lifted a finger, towards any effort

just an accounting windfall

............................................
Norway, can conduct 'business as usual',
as good enough,
just stop the land conversions of the 1990 era.

perhaps their oil industry has slowed down

[excess_3]

9. LULUCF, is not peculiar to Norway

to me, it is an abuse.
.........................................
consider Australia,

as a (not undeveloped, but)
'frontier' kind of country,


the more koala habitat that Australia torched in 1990,
the higher their baseline,
the less (or none) they need to suffer now

I assume there was something similar
in Norway during that era