Emissions Caps Hit a BRIC Wall
As expected...
India, China, South Africa, Brazil: Greenhouse Gas Emission Goals Opposed
Stratfor Today »-->December 2, 2009
India, China, South Africa and Brazil are opposed to the proposition of setting a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2050 and other goals being presented at the global climate conference in Copenhagen, Reuters reported Dec. 2, citing unnamed European diplomats who have seen a document by the four nations. The document reportedly also says that India, China, South Africa and Brazil oppose a target of limiting global warming to a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times and the setting of a goal of a peak in world emissions by 2020.
India, China, Brazil. Exactly the countries (among others) I've been saying wouldn't let western neuroses, and now perhaps western intellectual fraudulence, stand in the way of their economic development. Babs Boxer can bitch and moan all she likes about e-mail theft, the end result is that key developing countries see the bottom line - that the moral authority of Western science is worth nothing. Or at least now they have a convenient excuse to oppose vigorously something they never wholly bought into in the first place. No BRIC countries, no deal. Period. And only suicidal western powers would impose meaningful emission caps on themselves in the absence of a global agreement. We've all been saved from the carbon-free jail cell that was waiting for us.
India, China, South Africa, Brazil: Greenhouse Gas Emission Goals Opposed
Stratfor Today »-->December 2, 2009
India, China, South Africa and Brazil are opposed to the proposition of setting a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2050 and other goals being presented at the global climate conference in Copenhagen, Reuters reported Dec. 2, citing unnamed European diplomats who have seen a document by the four nations. The document reportedly also says that India, China, South Africa and Brazil oppose a target of limiting global warming to a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times and the setting of a goal of a peak in world emissions by 2020.
India, China, Brazil. Exactly the countries (among others) I've been saying wouldn't let western neuroses, and now perhaps western intellectual fraudulence, stand in the way of their economic development. Babs Boxer can bitch and moan all she likes about e-mail theft, the end result is that key developing countries see the bottom line - that the moral authority of Western science is worth nothing. Or at least now they have a convenient excuse to oppose vigorously something they never wholly bought into in the first place. No BRIC countries, no deal. Period. And only suicidal western powers would impose meaningful emission caps on themselves in the absence of a global agreement. We've all been saved from the carbon-free jail cell that was waiting for us.
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