"I Would LIke To Express Our Satisfaction With The Outcome" - KSA Lead Climate Rep. On Copenhagen

[hatrack]

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A number of governments and leaders, including US President Barack Obama, have since admitted that this conclusion fell short of many peoples' expectations. But Mr Al-Sabban said Saudi Arabia was content.

"I would like to express our satisfaction with the outcome," he wrote in an e-mail to BBC News. "We were among the 25 or so countries who positively negotiated the accord along with the world leaders, and we had succeeded in including the interest of OPEC countries in the Copenhagen Accord."

However, a number of politicians from industrialised nations have since blamed the developing world for blocking progress; and this, he said, would exacerbate mistrust between rich and poor.

"If so, we may be heading to the same future of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round, which is facing a total stalemate."

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8440181.stm

[joshcryer]

1. They got what they wanted. Won't have another chance like this for a decade.

By then CLARREO will probably have proven* that AGW is very real and very bad.

*Proven to a high degree of likelihood.

[wuvuj]

2. Next 10 yrs?

http://www.alternet.org/story/144968/2020%3A_china_rises%2C_the_u.s._declines_and_the_planet_strikes_back?page=entire

As the second decade of the twenty-first century begins, we find ourselves at one of those relatively rare moments in history when major power shifts become visible to all. If the first decade of the century witnessed profound changes, the world of 2009 nonetheless looked at least somewhat like the world of 1999 in certain fundamental respects: the United States remained the world’s paramount military power, the dollar remained the world’s dominant currency, and NATO remained its foremost military alliance, to name just three.

By the end of the second decade of this century, however, our world is likely to have a genuinely different look to it. Momentous shifts in global power relations and a changing of the imperial guard, just now becoming apparent, will be far more pronounced by 2020 as new actors, new trends, new concerns, and new institutions dominate the global space. Nonetheless, all of this is the norm of history, no matter how dramatic it may seem to us.

Less normal -- and so the wild card of the second decade (and beyond) -- is intervention by the planet itself. Blowback, which we think of as a political phenomenon, will by 2020 have gained a natural component. Nature is poised to strike back in unpredictable ways whose effects could be unnerving and possibly devastating.

[Nihil]

3. The Year of the Golden Ape has come round again. (n/t)

:mad:

[Dead_Parrot]

4. Fucktard. nt