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: Environmental Legal BlogsBALI SUMMIT ALREADY ON VERGE OF FAILURE (NO SURPRISE)
By STEPHEN HOLZER
Other than the delegates' emitting tons of feared carbon pollution by traveling to and from the Bali summit (see earlier Post below), it is not clear just what the submitters hope to accomplish. This from the The Canadian Press today:
Greenhouse gases are continually skyrocketing - with the U.S., China, and India leading the way.
That's why [Canadian environment minister] Baird says the climate deal that replaces Kyoto in 2012 must hold those countries to binding targets, which Kyoto failed to do.
Canada's insistence on U.S. involvement is not the only sign of a stalemate in Bali. None of the big three polluters have offered any hint of accepting the targets that Baird calls a prerequisite for a deal.
The major developing economies (India, China) are not going agree to forgo development; and the United States--sensibly--is not going to agree to spin our economy into a recession (or worse). Moreover, virtually no country that signed onto Kyoto has even kept its commitments to that treaty.
The result of Bali will be the same as the result of all other "do good" international environmental schemes-- a lot of high-sounding rhetoric designed to make everyone feel good without ultimately doing much of anything. Which is probably good, since (as discussed in many previous Posts) it is not at all clear there is really "anything" to do "something" about.
Full post as published by Environmental Legal Blogs on December 09, 2007 (boomark / email).
Prison 'picnic' for Bali bombers
Prison 'picnic' for Bali bombersThree men on death row for carrying out the 2002 bombings in Bali are supposedly being held in isolation, but Andrew Harding hears how they have been communicating with the outside world from their cells.
Bali nightclub bombers file new appeal of Indonesia death sentences
[JURIST] Three Indonesian Islamic militants sentenced to death for their roles in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings [BBC backgrounder] filed a new appeal Wednesday, after withdrawing an earlier appeal [JURIST report] this week following refusal of the Cilacap district court to grant a change of venue and transport the militants to a district court in Bali...
Bali nightclub bombers withdraw second appeal of death sentences
[JURIST] Three Indonesian Islamic militants sentenced to death for their roles in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings [BBC backgrounder] withdrew their second appeal [JURIST report] Monday, after the Cilacap district court refused to grant a change of venue and transport the militants to a district court in Bali...
Bali wrap up
I think this cartoon by Alan Moir pretty much sums it up!I'll post some more thoughts soon...
Bali high - or ballyhoo
Now that Australia has ratified the Kyoto Protocol, I'd expect that Kyoto-related debate and discussion in Australia would focus on:Can we meet our emissions targets in the first commitment period (2008 - 2012)?What happens after 2012? What will the new Kyoto Protocol or alternative post-Kyoto agreement look like?For the first issue, the die is really cast: there's not much we can change now in terms of domestic policy that will pay big dividends within the next 5 years...
Live Blogging the Summit
I'll be live blogging Senator Rodney Ellis' Summit on Wrongful Convictions. It's just starting with Senator Ellis making introductory comments and recognizing the dozen or so House and Senate members attending the Summit...
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