Friday, July 30, 2010

No trade without help on Undeniable Climate Change

..........................
Posted by at

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for this.

I have long advocated that small states (SIDS) should withdraw from the farcical UN Framework Convention Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process, because there is no genuine desire on the part of the industrialized countries (Annexe 1 countries) to combat climate change. Moreover, the process has become a behemoth, with countless, unproductive meetings in expensive capitals that focus more on language than substance; reporting requirements that swamp already overburdened SIDS technocrats; and a litany consultancies that ironically are done by "experts" from the very coutries that are the cause of the climate change problem.

The main goal of the Annexe 1 countries is to create a carbon trading mechanism which they will doubtless exploit, manipulate and abuse in the same way that they have done with the financial market.

At the same time, SIDS are not helping their cause when they continue to invest considerable time and resources in a wasteful UNFCCC process and when they fail to use other avenues to press their case on climate change. ACP SIDS missed a genuine opportunity to do this with the EPA. And so far it does not appear that the matter will be treated in the Canada-CARICOM negotiations either. It is beyond me how negotiators can envision a future in trade in goods and services through the heavy cloud of greenhouse gases that is contributing to climate change.

All the evidence suggests that SIDS will not get the quantum of money they need with the urgency they need it to adapt to climate change. It will be the worse case of folly on their part if they wait on handouts instead of taking immediate steps to build their resilience to climate change using their own resources.

CSI

July 31, 2010 at 7:53 AM
Anonymous said...

Saint Lucia has a population of about 170,000....Duh

July 31, 2010 at 3:57 PM

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)