Africa Threatens To Walk Out Of Climate Talks If Views Ignored

allafrica.com:

Africa's climate negotiators led by Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, threatened to walk out of talks if the December climate summit in Copenhagen failed to consider Africa's position.

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Comments

[JShep]

06:32 PM on 09/14/2009

The African leaders are not the least bit interested in reducing "global warming" or improving the environment, only profiting from it. They know the UN is full of leaders of the industrialized nations that feel enough guilt about their so called "contributions to global warming" that they are willing to be duped out of billions for "environmental reparations". I just hope the US leaders are not so gullible.

[Paulo1]

09:42 AM on 09/04/2009

"The continent demands that developed states should commit 0.5 per cent of their GDPs for climate action in developing countries."

Now that is the position on which I would say "go ahead and don't let the door hit you on the way out" This is not about reducing the impact of climate change, it is about another round of gimme hand outs to failed states with no strings attached. Africa is a dynamic place full of intelligent people who are perfectly capable of managing their own economies and responding to global warming in their own ways. Unfortunately much of Africa is also a place that is entirely too addicted to pandering and threatening the rest of the world into giving them cash.
If they need money for a project I am all in favor of supplying it. Put a plan on the table and show me how the building and maintenance will take place and I have no objections at all to international help. Come to a negotiation and start "demanding" .5 percent of GDP and you deserve nothing more than contempt.

[fbr79]

08:30 PM on 09/03/2009

Lybia, Nigeria, Algeria, Angola...all OPEC members, an organization that has played with the world economy to maximize their profits since 1960. Somehow the hundreds of billions of dollars generated by these nations did not reflect in progress for their people over the last 4 decades. They instead demand that their oil addicted customers pay the price to put in place the controls and technology needed to protect their continent. Polution that is in large part generated by their product and it's derivatives. Cute.