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Europe must change tack to save UN climate talks in Montreal
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Tuesday December 06, 2005 19:38 by Oisin Coghlan - Friends of the Earth info at foe dot ie 9 Upper Mount Street, Dublin 2 01-6394653
Friends of the Earth has written to European environment ministers in advance of their arrival in Montreal calling on them to rethink the EU's negotiating strategy. The current approach risks the climate talks drifting into a dead end. The US cannot be allowed a veto on the outcome of the negotiations. Too much is at stake. The Kyoto Protocol, to which the US is not a party, provides a mechanism for the rest of the world to move forward. The EU must push for the start of negotiations to agree new targets by 2008 for deeper emission cuts by industrialised countries. Business is looking for such certainty in order to be able to plan ahead in good time. If no agreement is reached in Montreal on a timeline and a deadline for negotiations then the whole process may begin to unravel. |
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Jump To Comment: 1saw a worst case projection for 2050 and 2100 on new sea levels. & it really is quite something. The pacific atolls which average highest point between only 10 and 60 metres look set to disappear. Considering that their main source of income is either for hosting military services (USAF in the main) or tourism, the plight of Micronesia and neighbours when appealing for emission reduction can't be underplayed.
As hard scientific prediction stands, most of the atolls will disappear and what will be left won't be worth an airbase or a sandy beach holiday. Some of the atolls are particularly bitter as they are since the late 80s formally US posessions, and it seems odd therefore that the first islands to disappear under the sea will technically be American.
After that other islands including the wonderful little Tokelau are going to get submerged, and since Tokelau (an autonomous region of New Zealand) hosts a few of the the most politically sticky websites in the world, one wonders will rising sea levels finally spell an end to ".tk" registration...
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/tl.html
Of course, European islands will go too. Malta seems pretty set to lose most of its "productive" territory just like Venice. & the low bits people enjoy hiding from the international courts in on the Azores, Canarias, Cabo Verde. I suppose bull island bird reserve is fkd.