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Climate Change Aid: Copenhagen Calling

Posted on September 11th, 2009 Global Changes 7 comments

Here is a key issue that will cause big discussion at the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen this December. Will the EU and other developed nations fund poor countries to help protect themselves from the impacts of climate change?

Money. You would think we would have run out of it by now after the dreadful year we have had. But the truth is the developed world has lots of it. In most cases it’s because of one thing. Fuel. Fossil fuels to be exact. The economic powerhouses of the last century became so because of their discovery, cultivation, use and export of oil, gas and coal.

Towards the end of the century it became apparent that the earth was warming. Gas emitted from burning these fuels, such as carbon dioxide, have a “greenhouse effect” on our atmosphere, trapping heat and causing “global warming”. The Industrial age, fueled by these fossil fuels, developed wealthy nations in North America and Western Europe. A new civilisation was born and a new quality of life reigned, whilst poorer third world countries were left in the dark.

Only over the past decades has poorer nations began to catch up with the developed world. These developing nations relying as their developed counterparts did on fossil fuels to power their industry, and build their future. But the last decade has seen them face new challenges.

A warming world is a more dangerous world. Climate change has become a reality in the hotter parts of the world. These already warm climates are home mostly to these developing nations. As climate change is a result of emissions from the use of fossil fuels, that surely means the nations that got rich from using them are responsible for the outcome. It is therefor unfortunate and unjust that as climate change begins to effect our world, the first countries to suffer are the poorer developing nations that have not reaped the benefits of the fuels that caused it.

2009 sets the stage for the most important meeting on climate change in history. Already an estimated 300,000 people are loosing there lives every year in climate changes related disasters, and nearly 300 Million are directly effected. 20 Million people are threatened yearly by Bangladesh floods alone. The Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen must reach a decision on how to deal with the issue of the impact of climate change on poorer nations.

The UN estimates that poor nations will need around $100 Billion (£60 Billion) to adapt to climate change. This should come from developed nations. 40% of the money is aimed to come from a carbon trading scheme that is supposed to emerge from the summit.

The European Commission believes $2 Billion – $15 Billion each year is a fair share for the EU to give to poorer nations. The commission believes that “industrialised nations and economically more advanced developing countries” will have to provide $22-50bn per year.

Will these countries step up and put the lives of other people before their own economies? After all the USA managed to fund their own banks with over $1 trillion in the last year, more than enough to end world hunger.

In all failure to reach a fair deal for aid to developing nations hit by climate change would be a sad day for humanity. For too long politicians have prioritised their economies over human lives and well, just about everything. It’s time for developed nations to accept their responsibility for climate change, and remember that people come first.
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7 responses to “Climate Change Aid: Copenhagen Calling”
1. Gordon Brown to Attend Copenhagen Climate Talks | Global Changes September 21st, 2009 at 17:21
  
  [...] The past few weeks have seen pessimism cast over the talks, claiming agreements will not be made, and not enough will be done. The conference is widely regarded as the most important meeting of climate change in history. [...]
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  [...] said his country’s cuts would be measured by unit of Gross Domestic Product. He echoed previous calls for developed nations to do more to fight climate change than developing nations, as they are more historically responsible for emissions. He also pledged to “vigorously [...]
3. John Paily September 23rd, 2009 at 05:27
  
  Fighting Global Warming and Climate Change does not need huge money, but the Knowledge of Nature and the reality that it is not the “carbon cycle” but “energy cycle” that is more important that needs to be looked at and dealt with
  
  Please give this a kind thought. This can change the very thinking and perception of Global Warming
  The cause for Global warming and climate change needs to be understood in terms of our intervention into Earth’s Energy Rhythm or Biorhythm of Earth. Earth is designed with two phases that co-exist. There is a ordering and disordering phase that balance each other. When west awakes to sunlight and goes in to disorder, east sleeps to and goes into order. When west peaks in light the east peaks in darkness and they give way to the opposite. The earth is dynamic and designed to balance it self. Thus earth is designed to keep the temperature of earth within in the limit and help life flourish. All life lives in this energy flow of earth. The system is dynamic and stable and works between two limits.
  
  All life is anti-gravitational, by instinct they work against the time directed to gravitational collapse [second law of thermodynamics]. Thus life supports nature from collapsing. However, a time direction emerges in the system towards disorder and collapse, when human mind aligns with material force and exploits nature. In the process he breaks into the ordering phase of the earth’s “energy cycle”. Thus the disorder in the world increases to a point where it becomes inevitable the system collapses. Over exploitation of material energy, intrusion into ordering phase of earth’s “energy cycle” is causing the shredding experience and is heading towards a collapse. The solution is to know the “Truth of Nature” and take steps to
  1] To reduce our intervention into nature’s dark cycle such that she gets space and time to recover.
  2] Develop nature compatible technique and technologies that does not release excess heat into environment.
  
  If you observe nature, a warming phase is part of all climatic cycle. When the “dry heat” increases and water evaporates and life is stressed, nature reacts forming clouds, which cuts the heat of the sunlight and limits the evaporation of water. This leads to build up of “wet heat” or warming. But warming is an indication of life force emerging. It is a “Good News”. Plants and animals take this signal. The physiology of plants changes in response to it. The reproductive phase gives way to vegetative phase. This phase can be dangerous if there is uncertainty and prolongation. A weeding process occurs during this period.
  
  We human are the cause for breaking the energy cycle. We need to “awaken to truth” of nature. We need to realize simple truth that exists next to our skin. We need to become conscious and truly intelligent to know our basic relationship with nature. The present time is calling out to humanity to become conscious and make advancement in our thinking. Unless humanity awakens to simple “Truth of Nature” we will only prolong the disordered state of the world calling upon humanity huge destruction.
  
  http://sites.google.com/site/awakeningtotruth/energy-secret-and-global-warming
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  [...] the 2 largest and most influential developing nations means their opinion and demands at the Copenhagen climate conference will likely be the voice of all developing nations, perhaps completely overshadowing that of [...]
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7. Judy Crayton March 5th, 2010 at 21:27
  
  Gosh you guys … that picture looks like from the 40′s and 50′s.
  
  The tendency to exaggerate makes us really uncomfortable. But then, so do the stolen emails and IPCC scandals from so many countries. Also, we were happy to hear our glacier tops weren’t going to disappear over night.
  It will be interesting to see what another year brings.
  Thanks for the article.
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