The Problem Now
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The latest science
confirms what most have suspected all along, that the threat of climate
change is even worse than was previously thought. Public
opinion polls around the world show overwhelming public support for positive
action to combat climate change.
The Kyoto Protocol
to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
was initially designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industrialised
countries by 5%. By the end of the Bonn negotiations last July, the effectiveness
of the Protocol had already been substantially weakened. Emission reductions
in the order of 80% are needed if dangerous climate change is to be prevented.
After two weeks of
negotiations at the latest climate negotiations in Marrakesh, Morroco,
the fine details of the implementation of the Protocol were ironed out.
Now that the architecture of the Protocol is in place, parties have no
excuse to delay ratifying and implementing it.
However, the Kyoto
Protocol is just a small start in what must be an ongoing and ever increasing
commitment to reduce greenhouse gases globally.
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Bush v. Climate
In late March, President
George W. Bush announced that the United States was abandoning the Kyoto
Protocol.
The United States'
'alternative', if it ever appears, is very likely to be strong on rhetoric,
but very weak on targets and timetables for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
It will try to postpone the hard choices to a time in the future when
they will no doubt be much harder and more expensive to take and perhaps
to a time when it is too late to reverse the damage that we are doing
to the world's climate system.
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Bush v. the Climate
US Corporate 100 Campaign
Greenpeace offices
world-wide are focusing on the top 5 US Big Oil companies that helped
to put Bush in power and are the main drivers of Bush's anti-climate policy
- Exxon/Mobil, Chevron, Texaco, Conoco and Phillips.
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US Corporate 100 Campaign
Growing Opposition
Bush's decision to
abandon the Kyoto climate treaty was met by a storm of protest, both in
the US and internationally. Governments, scientists, religious leaders,
labour and other public figures, as well as environmental organisations,
have condemned the move. Opposition continues to grow.
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Growing Opposition
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