John Howard, Prime Minster of Australia, and lap-dog to George Bush, has been granted the power to help shape the Asia-Pacific regions future goals and targets to combat global warming and increased carbon emissions by leading this year’s APEC Forum.
I have but few words to say to that: “God Help us All!”
For too long Howard has managed to stumble blindly along in Bush’s wake, acting almost as if he was Bush’s man
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It’s been a busy week for international climate change negotiations. A meeting of the United Nations and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) have some watchers feeling cautiously optimistic of future global agreements, while others are less than impressed with the semantics.
The Vienna Climate Change talks saw more than a thousand people from government, industry, and research gather in the Austrian capital to discuss ways to fight global warming. This United Nations-backed meeting is
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Finance ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) met last week in Australia to discuss how to meet the region’s energy needs and combat global warming. Key to this effort, they concluded, is to establish a framework to take the place of the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012.
Market-based strategies, like a cap-and-trade policy used in Europe, were discussed. A cap-and-trade policy sets an overall limit on emissions, and
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