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 |  Subject: Climate Czar: Todd Stern  Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:24 pm | |
| Climate Czar: Todd Stern .. //SONofLIBERTY89 & MDgal24
Each czar can have their own topic line. If anyone hears something on a particular
czar, report it here so the lead dog of that czar can fact check it and manage
the material to best report to Glenn.
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| | Subject: Re: Climate Czar: Todd Stern Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:17 pm | |
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- SONofLIBERTY89 31 :and 4 will be in my sights
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- MDgal24 Said: Let gnanad take the border czar. Since I work in the environmental field and the global warming hoax is a pet peeve of mine, I'll take the climate czar, Todd
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| | Subject: AFL-CIO and Todd Stern working together to piss china off Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:38 pm | |
| As I read this I can't help but to think there are contradictions from one paragraph to the next, But what I do feel is IN THE NAME OF GLOBAL WARMING, these ppl are going to (if not already) piss China off
Financially, I hardly think we want to start a pissing contest over this when they can devalue our dollar over night! http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/06/10/tough-negotiations-on-climate-change-in-bonn/#more-15088 - Quote :
- Developing nations have a responsibility to act, but the Chinese
version of having your cake and eating it too is not a solution. They
didn’t like it when one U.S. negotiator responded: “China and the
developing world’s current emissions are tomorrow’s historic
responsibility.” The fact is, this is no longer the pre-Kyoto climate
change conference days of 1992. Yesterday’s developing countries are
today’s advanced developing nations and they are now on a track to
produce more than 80 percent of the growth in carbon emissions during
the next several decades.
Ambassador Todd Stern, the U.S. Special Envoy on Climate Change, acknowledged these facts in an excellent speech he gave on climate negotiations with China at the Center for American Progress.
He said that
even if every other country in the world beside China
reduced its emissions by 80 percent between now and 2050—a thoroughly
unrealistic assumption, by the way—China’s emissions under
business-as-usual assumptions would alone be so large as to put us on a
track to global concentrations of 540 ppm [parts per millimeter] of
CO2, and a 2.7 degree centigrade temperature increase, far above what
scientists consider safe. The ambassador pointed out that the impression that China refuses to
take action is both inaccurate and unfair. He cited China’s efforts in
its five-year plan to reduce energy intensity 20 percent by 2010; to
increase the share of renewable energy in the primary energy supply to
15 percent by 2020; and to increase stringent auto emissions standards.
China also created a domestic stimulus package that contains
substantial clean energy investments. Yet, as the ambassador also
noted, China now is the world’s largest pollution emitter in the midst
of unparalleled growth and so “they must do more.”
The Obama administration is now pursuing a three-track approach to addressing the Chinese:
- The current climate change negotiating process.
- A 16-nation Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate—Including
China, India, Brazil, Mexico, South Korea, South Africa and
Indonesia—which will meet in July immediately after the G8 meeting.
- Bilateral relationships, especially with China.
The latter provides a backdrop to the Bonn meetings. While we met
here, Ambassador Stern was in China pursuing a joint research and
development agenda and other cooperative steps to encourage China to
embrace a new low-carbon growth agenda.
Many here are hopeful the private U.S. discussions will open a path
to a real discussion of mutual responsibility that recognizes the
obvious. Success depends upon each nation playing a role. There also is
another obvious political reality that Ambassador Stern said everyone
must recognize:
developed countries who do agree to take strong action
won’t long accept a world in which economic competitors are allowed to
free-ride with respect to CO2 emissions. | |
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