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Despite what Prime Minister, Gordon Brown would have us believe, the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland last week was a big disappointment. Contrary to his view, the only thing “historic” about this agreement was the rousing speech by Nobel Prize winner, Al Gore.

Despite pressure to the contrary, the UN Climate Change Conference set no target guarantees to keep temperature rises below two degrees centigrade. No commitment was made to set aside more cash to support the huge investment needed in new low carbon technologies and no other measures were put in place to help slow global warming.

Forcing the EU to cut emissions was no big deal when everyone knows that two thirds of the cuts could be made by buying carbon “offsets” from abroad.

While attending the UN Climate Change Conference, Ed Miliband, the UK climate change secretary said, “The world has to raise its game if it is to reach an agreement next year. There is no question we have to up the pace.” However, nobody, not even Miliband, seemed willing to go beyond an ambling pace quite yet.

Admittedly this year’s UN Climate Change Conference was set in the half way point between the Bali UN Climate Change Conference, where the world agreed that a deal needs to be made on climate change, and the Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference, when an agreement must be made to replace the Kyoto Protocol.

Our question is, ‘Why have a UN Climate Change Conference if you are not going to make any important decisions?’ The Tearfund charity got it right, expressing their disappointment with the UN Climate Change Conference, stating that the £23 million spent organising this conference could easily have been better spent going directly to poorer nations.

So, once again, precious little progress was made on arresting climate change. However, there was one highlight, that being the UN Climate Change Conference speech made by Nobel Prize winner Al Gore.

Hundreds of delegates packed into the UN Climate Change Conference to see the former US Presidential candidate echo President-elect Barack Obama in calling for change.

“It is wrong for this generation to destroy the habitability of the planet and ruin the prospects of every future generation. That realisation must carry us forward. Our children have a right to hold us to a high standard when the future of all human kind is hanging in the balance.”

Gore pointed out that there is new scientific evidence that claims the world is warming even faster than expected. The star of the Oscar-winning film “An Inconvenient Truth” called for the beefing up of global targets to cut carbon emissions.

In a headline grabbing moment, Mr Gore asserted that the world had lost its way, preferring to indulge in an obsession with celebrity rather than focussing on issues that really matter.

“The political systems of the developed world have become sclerotic. We have to overcome the paralysis that has prevented us from acting and focus clearly and unblinkingly on this crisis rather than spending so much time on OJ Simpson, Paris Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith.”

He did have some words of optimism however, particularly for President-elect Obama’s idea of a new “green deal”, which Gore hopes will be copied globally.

“Once he [Obama] is president, the US will engage vigorously in these negotiations and help to lead the world towards a new era on global co-operation on climate change.”

It could be the only hope for a deal on climate change after the EU went soft, watering down its target to cut carbon emissions by 20 percent by 2020.

 

You can see some of Al Gore’s UN Climate Change Conference Speech Here!

From Sam Deane,
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at www dot go solar power for homes dot com.

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