US Angers Activists as UN Holds Largest Climate Conference Ever

no surprise of course.. :-(

http://www.forbes.com/finance/feeds/afx/2005/11/30/afx2359768.html

US balks at UN post-Kyoto talks
11.30.2005, 03:22 AM


MONTREAL (AFX) - The US has opposed any talk of extending Kyoto-style limits on greenhouse gas emissions, angering activists at a UN climate change meeting.

Some 10,000 delegates and members of environmental groups are meeting here until Dec 9 as part of the UN Climate Change Conference on and what comes after the Kyoto accord, which expires in 2012.

'The United States is opposed to any such discussions,' Harlan Watson, head of the US delegation, told reporters.

He said that Americans did not want an approach including objectives or a timetable to reduce the emissions.

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"The US contains 4% of the world's population but produces about 25% of all carbon dioxide emissions. By comparison, Britain emits 3% - about the same as India which has 15 times as many people"
BBC: The US and climate change

http://www.vexen.co.uk/USA/pollution.html#Pollution
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http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7001184261

UN to Hold Largest Climate Conference Ever

November 25, 2005 12:30 p.m. EST

Ayinde O. Chase - All Headline News Staff Writer

Bonn, Germany (AHN) – The United Nations is hosting a Climate Change Conference beginning November 28 through December 9 in Montreal, Canada. The conference is expected to gather between 8,000 and 10,000 government delegates, business and civic leaders and environmental activists.

The assembly will be the largest meeting of its kind since the Kyoto Climate Conference in 1997.

"This meeting will not only be one of the largest climate change conferences ever, it will deliver a range of substantive results", says Richard Kinley, acting head of the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat in Bonn, Germany.

Parties are expected to agree on steps to strengthen the clean development mechanism, a tool designed under the Protocol to support sustainable development projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries. The United Nations Climate Change Secretariat will be showcasing such projects at the conference.

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UN link:
http://unfccc.int/2860.php

Historic United Nations climate change conference about to start in Montreal

23 November 2005 - The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2005 will be held from 28 November to 9 December in Montreal, Canada. It is expected to assemble between 8,000 and 10,000 participants, among them government delegates, business and civic leaders and environmental activists. As such, it will be the largest such meeting since the Kyoto Climate Conference in 1997.

Or more properly, our misguided, short-sighted, ignorant "leadership". How can they look their grandchildren in the face, knowing what their insane quest for profit and power is doing to the Earth those children will inherit from us.

hence options to secure farmable land in places with breathable air.

Those who cannot afford this will suffer the Tortures of the Damned, as it were.

That's what called an 'Ownership' society. :eyes:

if the planet cannot support life.

It certainly won't be pleasant for anyone.
Also since the wealthy don't know much about farming as a rule, it would be quite a challenge. :-)

is against this, not the American people.