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Copenhagen Summit And World Trade
15 hours ago ago from The White Picket Fence
Any agreement from the Copenhagen climate change conference is likely to amplify the "green" threat to wealth-creating free trade that is necessary to cut global carbon emissions. Despite the media hype there are still strong barriers to securing a Copenhagen deal. There is little convergence in negotiating positions with Europe seeking binding emissions reduction targets, America wanting scheduled commitments of unilateral action, ...
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20 hours ago ago from MAND - an adivasi-rights resource centre
Of course the forcibly driven so-called "copenhagen Agreement" has lots of smaller & poorer countries opposing it, though the US, UN Secretariat and the four 'BASIC' countries (Brasil, South Africa, India, China) - along with rich nations pushed it thru -- though poorer Latin American countries say --> it is a coup de-tat against the authority of the United Nations, African countries are calling it --> a suicide pact for African & ...
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12 hours ago ago from Earth911.com
It's been a whirlwind two weeks since we first gave you the rundown on Copenhagen , so we'll try and give you the highlights of the past few weeks so you can decide for yourself what went down. So, without further ado (and in no particular order), here our top five highlights from Copenhagen: Nothing is in stone yet - As of the writing of this article, no decisions that were made will be legally binding. The way this agreement is ...
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23 hours ago ago from Majikthise
Barack Obama declared victory and went home. Too bad it was in Copenhagen and not Kabul: Late on Friday night, President Barack Obama announced that an agreement had been reached, establishing a minimalist accord that would not set a firm schedule with hard-and-fast targets for reducing emissions. But after Obama held a press conference to declare semi-victory—"this is going to be a first step"—and jetted back to Washington, European ...
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18 hours ago ago from The Last Stand
There are no political issue more important then this one It's not about the Health Care scam (yes, it is). It's not about the Global Warming Scam (yes, it is). It's not about the national debt (that's my money you're giving away). It's not about the economy (the foxes are now guarding an empty henhouse). It's about American men and women, in a little piece of hell, as far from home as they can get and still ...
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Arbitrator Rules Against China on U.S. Media Imports
2 hours ago ago from The New York Times
GENEVA (AP) Arbitrators at the World Trade Organization upheld a ruling on Monday that China had illegally restricted imports of American music, films and books, and Washington pushed forward with a new case accusing China of manipulating the prices for key ingredients in steel and aluminum production. Monday's verdict by the W.T.O.'s appellate body knocked down China's objections to an August decision that came down decisively against ...
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3 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The delegation of African negotiators rumbled into Copenhagen rubbing their palms and licking their chops in the hope of reaping tens of billions of dollars in carbon blood money and make a quick exit. They were ultimately disappointed. There was no gold at the end of the Copenhagen rainbow. At the end of the day, the industrialized countries pledged chump change in the amount of $30 billion to the poorer countries for the 2010-2012 period. ...
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