The Conference of the Parties (COP) is about to reconvene after a 4hr break. The new text prepared by the president of the COP sets a roadmap for a comprehensive climate agreement to avoid dangerous climate change. But there is one major omission: targets. As we prepare to open negotiations on the new text, the United States and Canada have managed to block and remove any references to concrete targets and time lines for emission reductions. The US and Canada, immune to science and morality, will try to leave with as little as they can. At 8:45am in Bali, Indonesia, history has yet to be written.
About Whit
Whit recently graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, MN where he majored in International Relations and minored in Political Economy and Environmental Studies. While on campus, he and his friends worked to make Carleton carbon neutral by designing a Sustainability Revolving Fund, studying the feasibility of bringing new wind turbines to campus, and participating in Minnesota Campus Wars. He spent his summer organizing the March to ReEnergize Iowa, and is currently working on Power Shift 2007 and preparing for upcoming international climate negotiations in Bali as the Partnerships Coordinator for SustainUS
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