Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 11:38:59 +0100 From: "secr(MG!)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: U.S. @ COP 6 Climate talks assures: We're fucked! ----- forwarded message ----- Subject: [EF!] U.S. @ COP 6 Climate talks assures: We're fucked! Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 15:51:04 -0800 From: Climate Action NOW! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The U.S. delegation will destroy the planet if we don't wake up to the climate crisis and ACT NOW! Two things to note here: 1) The corporations and the U.S. govt., *even under Clinton (!)* will send the planet straight to Hell. 2) Earth Day next year for a major disruption of automobile business as usual is perfect timing for massive international actions for radical change. (the next COP meeting is in May 2001). For our survival, and the survival of the biosphere, please commit yourself to join the effort spearheaded by Climate Action NOW! to apply massive grassroots political and spiritual pressure in Detroit, next Earth Day to HALT Climate Destabilization NOW! We have no more time to hesitate. This is the only chance we will have to stop the inertia taking use to omnicide for Earth. We must use our bodies to rock the next president and the next Congress enough to shift industrial-consumer society away from the path to inevitable global catastrophe. It can become too late. For more information, please check out our web sites: http://www.efmedia.org/climate/default.html http://efmedia.org/climate/detroit.html Your financial support is essential to make this happen. Thanks, Andy Caffrey Climate Action NOW! http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/11/25/climate.conference.02/index.html No deal on global warming as climate talks collapse THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- United Nations climate talks have collapsed in disarray with no deal reached to stop global warming. "There isn't a deal. That's unfortunate," British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott told reporters, saying he was leaving the conference in The Hague hours before a deadline to reach for a pact. "I'm gutted," Prescott said. Delegates said talks had foundered on disagreements between the EU and the United States over ways to curb emissions of greenhouse gases believed to be causing climate change. The talks have been suspended until May 2001, a source in the 15-nation European Union said. The conference chairman, Dutch environment minister Jan Pronk, said: "We have not reached agreement. I am very disappointed." Pronk said he was not closing the conference but would resume it at a later stage. "We cannot go home just by stating, by confessing, that we did not reach an agreement," he said. "We should be aware that we have been watched by the outside world," he told the delegates in a closing plenary. "There were extremely high expectations of us." A key issue blocking agreement was that of "sinks" -- whether to let countries count the carbon absorbed by their forests against their greenhouse gas emissions. U.S. officials say nations should get credit for existing farmland and forests because they absorb carbon dioxide and offset some emissions. Opponents say such programs would reward certain countries for doing nothing. "Governments have spent two weeks essentially arguing about how they can do as little as possible to reduce the threat of global climate change," said Tony Juniper, vice chairman of Friends of the Earth. Greenpeace said the meeting "will be remembered as the moment when governments abandoned the promise of global cooperation to protect the planet Earth." Delegates had been negotiating throughout the night in an attempt to reach agreement by a deadline of 1600 GMT on Saturday. Environmental lobbyists had argued that the loopholes could be closed Earlier on Saturday, UK Environment Minister Michael Meacher had said the "crunch issues" had been resolved, with the basic elements in place. However, other negotiators warned that the talks were on the brink of collapse because of widespread opposition to what they see as U.S. reluctance to limit its own power to pollute. The U.S. and the 15-nation European Union have argued over ways to clean up the earth's atmosphere. Poor nations and green groups warned of environmental catastrophe if the talks among 180 countries failed to forge the first concrete global steps against climate change by the deadline. The talks were to set an agreement on guidelines on how nations may reach targets they accepted three years ago for reducing emissions of the greenhouse gases. The gases are blamed for the abnormal warming of the Earth and bizarre weather changes. Conference chairman Jan Pronk had submitted a compromise proposal on Thursday meant to bridge the differences between the U.S. and the EU, but both sides rejected it as inadequate. The paper was also denounced by dozens of environmental lobby groups who said it would give countries too much leeway to wriggle out of emissions-reduction targets they committed to in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan. Under the Kyoto Protocol, worldwide emissions of heat-trapping gases must decline to 5.2 percent below their 1990 levels by 2012. Reuters contributed to this report. Back to the top © 2000 Cable News Network. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you. -- ** EARTH DAY 2001 IN DETROIT** Mark your calendar!! NO MORE SUVS! No More Cars built with less than 70mpg - RETOOL NOW! 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