- Fri Dec 11, 2015 9:00 am
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that negotiators are still in disagreement over how far-reaching the accord should be and who should pay for damages wrought by global warming.If this whole thing wasn't a farce they would just be talking about cutting back on pollution (a good thing) but then they turn it into a corrupt racketeering operation by setting up carbon fund managers, who's going to get what and 100's of billions dollars "which will be unaccounted" for shifting through the hands of the organizers. Just another step by Obama to move the United States to stage 4 before he leaves office and stuff the bank accounts of the chosed few.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry zipped in and out of meetings on his fifth straight day in France trying to iron out differences with developing countries such as India. Kerry said he's "hopeful" for an accord and has been working behind the scenes to reach compromises. "There was a lot of progress made last night, a long night, but still a couple of very difficult issues that we're working on," Kerry told reporters Friday at the talks outside Paris. He wouldn't elaborate on which issues. Kerry admitted any agreement will be costly to rich countries,up to hundreds of billions of dollars but he argued the cost will be cheap, because their plan will stop global warming and save millions of lives.
Pa Ousman Jarju, environment minister for the west African nation of Gambia, said: “Loss and damage is a red line for us. If it is not addressed adequately, there will be no outcome in Paris.” Mr Jarju is also chairman of the 48-nation Least Developed Countries negotiating bloc.Low-lying islands, “The industrialised world has become wealthy by polluting the atmosphere and now our rivers are running dry and our crops are turning to dust. It is therefore essential that loss and damage is well addressed in the Paris agreement,” added Mr Mwenda, whose alliance speaks for more than 1,000 farmers, churches, NGOs and other organisations in 45 African countries.such as the Maldives and the Pacific Island of Tuvalu, are also adamant that any deal will involve compensation as they gradually sink under water.
US special envoy for climate change, Todd Stern, said this week: “We won’t accept the wording that there must be liability and compensation for loss and damage.” But he indicated the U.S. could be open to financial assistance under a different name – a stance shared by much of the developing world, including Europe and the UK.
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