http://www.Pay4Rides.com/2008/12/un-climate-summit/

I agree that money is one of the key issues as we deal with a recession of the global economy. Instead of investing billions in new technologies, we need to conserve the resources we currently have. This in turn will reduce our carbon output.

UN Climate Change Conference from Bali to Copenhagen via Poznan has created Planning Process. Based on my intuition, if COP 13 can produce Bali Action Plan, COP 14 will produce Public and Private Partnerships that COP 15 is to produce Cooperative Intellectual Property.

Yours in Public and Private Partnerships

Tjahjokartiko Gondokusumo
Cooperative Planner

see http://northwardho.blogspot.com
for Reuters story on this. can you BLOG on this too? thanks. DANNY, Tufts 1971

for immediate release: December 1, 2008
contact: Dan Bloom: danbloom@gmail.com

Lawsuit against world leaders for $1 billion for global warming impact
on future?

Tags: Environment, climate treaty, crimes against humanity, global
warming, greenhouse emissions, international criminal court

In a global publicity stunt, a U.S. environmental activist is poised
to lodge a US$1 billion damages class action lawsuit at the
International Criminal Court (ICC) against all world leaders for
failing to prevent global warming.

Climate ctivist and blogger Dan Bloom, 60, a graduate of Tufts
University in 1971, says he will sue world leaders for “intent to
commit manslaughter against future generations of human beings by
allowing murderous amounts of fossil fuels to be harvested, burned and
sent into the atmosphere as CO2″.

He intends to lodge the lawsuit on Dec. 6 at the ICC in the Hague.

The prosecutor’s office at the ICC, the world’s first permanent court
(pictured below right) for war crimes, genocide and crimes against
humanity, says it is allowed to receive information on crimes that may
fall within the court’s jurisdiction from any source.

“Such information does not per se trigger a judicial proceeding,” the
prosecutor’s office hastened to add.

The question for media analysts and reporters is: will or should the
prosecutor take on the case?

One might argue in defense that world leaders are in fact trying to
impose climate-saving measures. In Vienna last year, almost all rich
nations agreed to consider cuts in greenhouse emissions of 25-40
percent below 1990 levels by 2020. Talks on a new climate treaty will
be held in Poznan, Poland, from Dec. 1-12.

Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N. Climate Panel, says the cuts are
needed to limit temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius, an amount
seen by the EU, some other nations and many environmentalists as a
threshold for “dangerous” climate change.

Granted then that there is growing consensus that climate change poses
a real threat, is it not only world leaders who are failing to prevent
global warming?

Perhaps the global collective of individuals, governments and industry
is to blame and the ICC lawsuit a valid publicity stunt in the
constant battle to raise awareness and prompt action?

Because it’s action we need ― and now, right?