What are goals leaders should aim for during the COPENHAGEN Climate Conference 2009?
November 18th, 2009 | by admin |The general public is finally starting to realize the importance of climate control. The world is beginning to take responsibility for the pollutant it creates. Im wondering what major issues people want to be addressed and their definition of success for this global climate conference.
Dissolve Kyoto and put an end to profiteering from trading CO2.
8 Responses to “What are goals leaders should aim for during the COPENHAGEN Climate Conference 2009?”
By Ottawa Mike on Nov 19, 2009 | Reply
My definition of success for this conference is if they put off doing something really harmful for no good reason until the issue is better understood.
Generally, people who want "action now" fall into the used car salesman crowd with their high pressure sales tactics. They don’t want to lose their "mark" by letting him think about it too long lest they lose his attention (or control).
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By Didier Drogba on Nov 19, 2009 | Reply
Stop pretending that there is a genuine concern about CO2, just decide what the new tax rate will be and get on with it.
At least be honest - this is about control and money.
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By stepsheppotter on Nov 19, 2009 | Reply
Here’s a good guide of what 160 major NGOs would like to see in benchmark form:
http://www.worldwildlife.org/climate/Publications/WWFBinaryitem12616.pdf
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By Thomas on Nov 19, 2009 | Reply
Stop Subsidies on Nuclear. Stop Subsidies For Oil. Start Subsidizing Solar thermal Power Plants.
Use Satellite Data to analyze each countries forest CO2 storage capacity, track the photos and note the increase in storage, if done on a macro level we could allocate tax brackets according to storage per capita vs production per capita basis.
lbs of trees/ CO2
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By andy on Nov 19, 2009 | Reply
What I would love to see at this climate conference is either an across the board cut in ALL green house gases or the International community finally coming clean and saying that man’s greenhouse gases are just minor players in the greater scheme of things. I mean, when China, the #1 emitter of total greenhouse gases has told the World that it is not going to think about changing it’s energy policy any time soon what good will the reductions of the Developed Nations do when all that will happen is that China, India, Russia, Brazil, and other developing Nations will add as much or more greenhouse gases then is reduced?
For Thomas, there are incentives for solar and wind power. The bad thing is when the environmentalists in the United States are against any form of energy, it doesn’t matter. I mean, these people have tried to or have stopped a solar farm being put into the Sonora Desert. Or how about saying that wind farms can’t be put in anywhere where people can see them, where they can be heard, or where they can accidentally kill any bird.
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By HAHAHA on Nov 19, 2009 | Reply
Skip cap and trade and use carbon tax. Cap and trade can be used for assholes to make money off man-made climate change. Carbon tax can be used to lower regular tax for a decade or so. Man altered climate change is real and we need to do something.
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One thing. China is using the excuse of "We aren’t going to do it because you aren’t." too. Remember George W Bush? He was always undermining these conferences. Anyway you have to get past that attitude. If the USA dives in a month before China does, who really cares?
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By Moe on Nov 19, 2009 | Reply
Dissolve Kyoto and put an end to profiteering from trading CO2.
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By Starbuck on Nov 19, 2009 | Reply
Jeremy, CO2 is not a pollutant. The focus on this conference should be only for the control of pollution specifically in third world countries and emerging giants such as India and China. Pollution and natural climate change are not related. CO2 is a colorless, odorless compound necessary for life on earth.
Anything accomplished in controlling polution must include a way of controlling the human population on earth as if we do not, nothing we do now will control the scurge of pollution in the future.
Do you understand this?
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