Caritas charges Japan, Russia attempting to subvert climate talks
December 15, 2009
Caritas Internationalis-- the consortium of Catholic relief agencies-- has charged that Japan, Russia, and other wealthy nations are attempting to subvert climate negotiations in Copenhagen by sidelining the controversial Kyoto Protocol. Referring to poorer nations’ “fear that rich countries are trying to kill the strongest legal climate agreement we have,” an Irish Caritas representative said, “As heads of state come to Copenhagen in this second week, it’s up to rich countries to get the talks back on track by re-committing to the Kyoto Protocol.”
“Abandoning the Kyoto Protocol would be a step back for all countries, but especially for the world’s poorest. For them the negotiations are a matter of survival,” added a Caritas representative from Scotland. “Vulnerable communities across the world need a fair, ambitious and binding climate agreement, of which the Kyoto Protocol is an essential element.”
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Further information:
- Catholic development agencies say rich countries block climate talks (Caritas Internationalis)
- United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
- Kyoto Protocol (Wikipedia)
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Posted by: Chestertonian -
Dec. 16, 2009 3:02 AM ET USA
JR is correct; Kyoto aims to redistribute wealth, punishing the West and trying to transfer its economic success to 3rd world countries. It will fail, because the whole protocol is based on lies and exaggerations, and because the collapse of the strong economies of the 1st world will end aid to those countries who need it in order to develop their own economies. It takes money to make money, which is what our economic aid is meant to provide. Kyoto and Copenhagen will end that aid.
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Posted by: -
Dec. 15, 2009 10:05 AM ET USA
Caritas is pushing for the Kyoto Protocol? How will the world's poor be better off if the world's largest wealth-producing economies are strangled to death? Who, then, will provide the goods, services, and consumer markets that developing nations need in order to develop?
