Pelosi, top Dems will back Clinton’s climate aid pledge to poor nations

[kpete]

Source: The Hill


Pelosi, top Dems will back Clinton’s climate aid pledge to poor nations
By Ben Geman - 12/17/09 11:02 AM ET

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other senior Democrats vowed in Copenhagen Thursday to back up Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s pledge to increase U.S. climate aid for poor nations.

But Democrats also endorsed Clinton’s linking the commitment to China and other nations making their emissions curbs subject to outside verification, a major issue of dispute at the international climate summit.

“We salute the announcement that Secretary Clinton made earlier today,” Pelosi said at a press briefing, flanked by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and five committee chairmen. “We are fully prepared to be able to meet the commitment of the United States.”

She pointed to funding for international adaptation in the sweeping energy and climate bill the House approved in June, as well as Congress’s power of the purse. Many poor nations are vulnerable to changes such as increased frequency of climate-related diseases, drought, and displacement.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/72737-pelosi-congress-has-clintons-back-on-climate-aid-pledge

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[unabelladonna]

2. my pockets are just about empty

how can we give money that doesn't exist? this is a farce. these billions could be used for healthcare.

[Arkana]

5. get out

[Baclava]

3. $100 billion here, 100 billion there, who's counting?

Is that the point? Is all this shit going to be just about money and who pays for it?
maybe I'm naïve.

War or healthcare? Healthcare or the planet? Nice choices.


Fuck it - just get ONE thing done right...is that too much to ask?


Pick a target and stick with it. I don't care anymore.

[unabelladonna]

4. let's make it healthcare

we need it now!