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    Thailand : UN climate meeting kicks off in Bangkok

    UN climate meeting kicks off in Bangkok
    April 03, 2011

    A United Nations meeting on climate change kicked off on Sunday in Bangkok to discuss action plans following decisions made at a ministerial meeting in Mexico last year.

    Participants at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting are to map out action plans in their six-day meeting in Bangkok, the first UNFCCC meeting after the meeting in Cancun, Mexico from Nov. 29 to Dec. 10 last year.

    Pre-sessional workshops will continue from Sunday to Tuesday morning before the official opening takes place on Tuesday afternoon.

    The meetings include sixteenth session of the ad hoc working group on further commitments of developed nations under the Kyoto Protocol, and the fourteenth session of the ad hoc working group on long-term cooperative action under the UNFCCC.

    The Kyoto Protocol commits parties to the convention to reduce green house gas emissions.

    A total of 2,271 representatives from 175 countries are attending the Bangkok meeting, of which 1,417 are government officials, according to a UN official.

    Source: Xinhua

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    A total of 2,271 representatives from 175 countries are attending the Bangkok meeting,
    a bunch of hypocritical expense account junkies flying around the world every few months staying in 5 star hotels, wasting fuel, electricity and time trying to save the world from their own wastefulness.

    arselicking toads, all of them.

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    Japan's nuclear disaster felt at climate change negotiations
    Apr 3, 2011

    Bangkok - Japan's nuclear disaster will be felt at climate change talks in Bangkok this week and on countries' energy choices in the long term, a European Union official said Sunday.

    'Very clearly this will have repercussions on international climate change negotiations,' said Artur Runge-Metzger, the climate change strategy director for the EU.

    Runge-Metzger is one of the EU's chief negotiators attending a special session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change being held Sunday to Friday.

    The session coincides with Japan's worst nuclear power disaster, triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

    Efforts to contain radiation leaking from the damaged nuclear reactors in north-east Japan have been unsuccessful nearly a month after the cooling systems failed.

    Many Asian countries have been forced to re-examine their long-term nuclear plans as a result.

    'Whether it is going to reduce the level of ambition, I don't think so, because you look ahead at two kinds of evils,' Runge-Metzger said.

    'On the one hand you can say we can't use nuclear because we might have a nuclear disaster, but I think everyone at the table is saying we can't have climate change because climate change is also going to lead to a disaster.'

    The EU claims to be at the forefront of the global effort to reduce carbon emissions and assist other countries in reducing dependency on fossil fuels.

    Delegates said the union was 'on track' for reducing its carbon emissions by 20 per cent compared with 1990 levels by the year 2020.

    The EU has also spent about one-third of the 7.2 billion euros committed for 2010-12 towards assisting developing countries in reducing carbon emissions.

    Instead of going nuclear, the EU is urging developing countries to explore renewable energy sources and other technologies.

    'We will have to reconcile to having to expand on these alternatives, although it might be a bit more expensive,' Runge-Metzger said.

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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    A total of 2,271 representatives from 175 countries are attending the Bangkok meeting,
    a bunch of hypocritical expense account junkies flying around the world every few months staying in 5 star hotels, wasting fuel, electricity and time trying to save the world from their own wastefulness.

    arselicking toads, all of them.
    hear hear

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    Concern as Kyoto Sentiments Re-Emerge in Bangkok
    Michael Simire
    24 April 2011

    Kyoto Protocol, the basis of global efforts to cut the emissions liable for the earth's warming, was once again at the centre of deliberations during latest round of United Nations climate change deliberations that held recently in Bangkok, Thailand.

    As nations consistently fail to agree on new targets for developed countries when the old provisions expire next year, it is looking increasingly likely that there would be a gap between the outgoing Protocol and the incoming one.

    Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana Figueres, is worried that the commitments would expire without a new round of legally binding pledges. She said governments needed to start preparing for a gap on the expiry of pledges under the Kyoto Protocol.

    "Governments have to face the fact that a gap in this effort looks increasingly impossible to avoid," Figueres told reporters in Bangkok during the UN's first round of climate talks for the year.

    "In 2011 they need to figure out how to address this issue and how to take it forward in a collective and inclusive way. Resolving this will create a firmer foundation for an even greater collective ambition to cut emissions."

    Signed in 1997, the Kyoto Protocol saw most developed nations agree to legally binding agreements in curbing their greenhouse gas emissions. Those commitments are due to expire at the end of 2012.

    While developing countries like China, India and Brazil, favour renewing Kyoto, some developed nations prefer replacing it.

    Japan and Russia have firmly opposed extending the protocol because it excludes the world's two biggest polluters - China and the United States - and therefore only covers about 30 percent of global emissions.

    China did not have to commit to cutting emissions because of its status as a developing country, while the United States refused to ratify the protocol.

    Japanese delegates to the Bangkok talks said their country would hold firm in its opposition to signing up for a second phase of emission reduction commitments unless the United States and China did the same.

    "We will not change our position. We don't change, we haven't changed, we will not change," the deputy director general for global issues with Japan's foreign affairs ministry, Akira Yamada, said in an interview with AFP.

    There are indications that Japan may review its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent, in the light of the earthquake and tsunami that crippled the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

    Governments and observers have warned that failing to reach an agreement on fresh carbon emission reduction targets would undermine potential progress in other vital areas of the UN's efforts to tackle global warming.

    Journalists and independent observer, Rod Harbinson, described the meeting as "very frustrating" as, according to him, "they only discussed the agenda - no content."

    He said, "Japan, Russia and the US re-confirmed that they won't join a Kyoto's second commitment period. I think the old differences between pro- and anti-Kyoto re-emerged.

    And concern is growing that Kyoto 2 will not be in place by the time it expire."

    But Figueres said the Kyoto Protocol would not necessarily collapse without the legally binding commitments, and that countries could continue with other important elements.

    "There are many different components of the Kyoto Protocol and they have the possibilities of deciding which of those, and all of those if they wish, would continue to operate," she said.

    "The market mechanisms, the compliance system and the rules-based approach are very important parts of the Kyoto Protocol that parties are free to choose which ones of those they want to continue and in what form."

    The Japanese delegation in Bangkok also insisted UN efforts to combat climate change need not falter, and the Kyoto Protocol could remain effective, without a new round of legally binding emission cut pledges in time for 2013.

    The Bangkok talks were aimed at kick-starting UN negotiations for the year ahead of the world body's next summit in Durban, South Africa, in November.

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    Kyoto, global warming, climate change, its all eco fraud socialist bullshit. No wonder Mid is so in tune to it.

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