RP Official On Country's Preparation For Climate Talks: "We will not commit. There will be no cuts"

[hatrack]

Well alrighty then!

THE PHILIPPINES will resist pressures for it to commit to greenhouse gas emission cuts and will demand damages from large industrial economies at next month’s talks for a global deal to fight climate change, a ranking official said late last week.

Otherwise, binding this developing country to targets would stunt local farming which already accounts for roughly a third of the country’s emissions, Agriculture Undersecretary Segfredo R. Serrano said ahead of technical working group meetings in Tianjin, China on Oct. 4-9. The stance counters several richer countries’ proposal in the 2009 Copenhagen negotiations for developing economies to contribute more to the worldwide effort to stop global warming.

The meeting was supposed to lay down new emission targets as current Kyoto Protocol commitments will last only until 2012. An unresolved standoff now remains after Europe, Japan, Australia and Canada proposed to forge a new deal separate from the earlier protocol, a move that, in effect, would have junked provisions that had distinguished between developed and developing states’ obligations. We will not commit. There will be no cuts," Mr. Serrano said in a chance interview before heading for China.

The meeting will be among "ad hoc" groups tasked to "narrow down options and advance substantive work" ahead of the leaders’ conference in Cancun, Mexico in late-November, data from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Web site show.

http://www.bworldonline.com/main/content.php?id=18158

[xchrom]

1. Um - well - that'll show em... Oy.

[mike_c]

2. proving once again...

...that Garrett Hardin was right.

Link: http://dieoff.org/page95.htm

[Nihil]

3. So was another quote:

"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here.
It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized
that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively
develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but
you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply
until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive
is to spread to another area.
There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern.
Do you know what it is? A virus.
Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet."

[pscot]

4. Philippine CO2 emossions are about 20%

of the world per capita average. There are 45 vehicles per 1000 people. Short of killing all their chickens to cut down on methane, it's hard to know what we expect of them. It might be more useful to ask the pope to allow contraceptives so their population doesn't double again in the next 40 years. Just sayin.