Hidden agendas being pursued behind closed doors are the most effective way to destroy confidence. Yet for the goals that COP15 had set, we need people of all nations to be onboard. If we do not have that, better go home and work harder to get support from our people, and try again later. Better a clear failure in Copenhaguen than this leaked text.
If we get anywhere with the negotiations on sharp reductions in the emissions of CO2, let us right away work on mitigation. The number of climate refugees will rise sharply in the coming decades, developped countries should at least take them in.
I invite all bloggers to discuss the pros and cons of this possibility in the following discussion groupsituated in the australian forum Climate for Change.
I suggest in that forum that countries should accept climate refugees as immigrants with a repartition in percentages corresponding to the contribution these countries made to greenhouse gases (methane and CO2). The ground for this is that the least we can do if we don't get the CO2 emissions near zero in 2050 is to take responsability for our collective past actions. Nobody chooses where one is to be born and we all belong to the same specie.Climate refugees must be right away encouraged and supported in taking court actions against countries that would not be offering a proportionate solution to their grievances.
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