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Politics: Kyoto - prospects?

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    • CommentAuthorJoiner
    • CommentTimeJul 16th 2011
     
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeJul 16th 2011 edited
     
    Is it to do with this:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/15/david-king-abandon-kyoto-protocol

    I can see the TEQ's coming out again.
    • CommentAuthorJoiner
    • CommentTimeJul 16th 2011
     
    King is putting the rich man's case, which is equally likely to fail and for the same reasons as the policy he's objecting to - entrenched positions.
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      CommentAuthorfostertom
    • CommentTimeJul 16th 2011 edited
     
    Why is this the rich man's case? It would result in huge payments by developed to developing and undeveloped countries, whilst leaving the latter with much headroom to increase their emissions (if they prefer that to receiving those payments). So why shouldn't it be acceptable to everyone, to the point where it could be a binding treaty? I should think that only the rednecks in US, Aus and Canada wd insist on emitting as much as they like and paying no-one. Maybe with the Murdoch machine disabled, the rotweillers will be able to deploy less energy in the matter.
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeJul 16th 2011
     
    I think that one of the problems with any type of 'swapping" is that the resource, be it cash or technology does not reach the people that need it most. Just look at our hash up of the FITs and RHI, can you imagine the whole world having a similar interpretation of our system and then trying to trade in it across borders. Then how would it be policed or verified, we could not even find WMD in Iraq, but there may be other reasons why that did not happen. Would like the job of finding small Aboriginal tribes and checking their camp fires but would not be so keen to go to Moscow to see what their central government is doing. Thoughts on how to police and enforce this system anyone?

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