Ei mennyt paljoakaan IPPC:n raportin ensmmäisen osion julkaisemisesta kun Kiina ilmoitti haluttomuutensa päästörajoituksiin. Tarvitaan lisää aikaa, ekonomiaa ei voida vaarantaa, ilmastonmuutos on länsimaiden syytä...Kiina ei ole ollut halukas keskustelemaan roolistaan Kioton sopimuksessa vuoden 2012 jälkeen. Ja tuskin on.
Suure yhtiöt vievät tuotantoaan mm. Kiinaan, meiltä lähtee koko ajan työpaikkoja. Voisi kuvitella että rahallisen hyvän myötä positiiviset arvot kasvaisivat ahneuden sijaan. Mutta ei...lisää on saatava. Niin myös Kiinan. Mitä väliä on sillä missä jamassa on maapallo, kunhan heille rahaa syydetään? Suuruudenhullut valtiot unohtavat niin usein miten ne ovat aivan yhtälailla osa kokonaisuutta.
Mihin johtaa tämä rahanahne paskanjauhanta ilmastopoliittisissa kysymyksissä?
China blames the west for global warming
By Mure Dickie in Beijing
Published: February 6 2007 18:07 | Last updated: February 6 2007 18:07
Rich industrialised nations must take the lead in cutting greenhouse gases since they bear the “unshirkable responsibility” for causing global warming, a Chinese official said on Tuesday.
The comments by a foreign ministry spokeswoman underscore China’s determination not to allow international action on climate change to undermine its economic development.
Rapid economic growth, a huge population and inefficient industry have made China the world’s second largest carbon emitter after the US – new data show that power generating capacity in the country in 2006 expanded by an amount equal to the entire capacity of the UK and Thailand combined. But the country’s per capita emissions have remained far below the global average.
“It must be pointed out that climate change has been caused by the long-term historic emissions of developed countries and their high per-capita emissions,” Reuters news agency quoted Jiang Yu, a foreign ministry spokeswoman, at a briefing on Tuesday.
“Developed countries bear an unshirkable responsibility,” Ms Jiang said.
The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said last week that human activity was likely to cause global temperatures to rise about 3 degrees celsius by 2100, causing water shortages, heatwaves, storms and floods.
Beijing’s top weather bureau official said on Tuesday China was serious about tackling climate change but needs time to introduce the advanced environmental technology available to developed countries.
Qin Dahe, head of the China Meteorological Administration, said Chinese per capita emissions in 2000 were just 0.65 tonnes per person - one fifth of levels in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries.
There have been recent signs that Beijing is preparing to take a more activist approach on curbing emissions, following a official government enquiry that concluded warming could intensify China’s water shortages and undermine agriculture.
“The Chinese government takes the problem of climate change extremely seriously - President Hu Jintao has said that it is not just an environmental issue but a development issue,” Mr Qin said.
Wen Jiabao, the premier, was also “very seriously” pushing officials at all levels to achieve the government target of improving energy efficiency by 4 per cent a year, he said.
However, the comments by Ms Jiang and Mr Qin offer no encouragement for international critics who feel that China should impose limits on its greenhouse gas emissions.
Beijing has been reluctant to discuss what role it might play in carbon curbs after the present provisions of the Kyoto Protocol expire in 2012.
Along with India and other developing countries, China was exempted from emissions curbs under the protocol, which was anyway never ratified by the US.
Mr Qin made clear that other countries should not expect too much of China.
“As a developing country with a fast growing economy and large population, it will require a great deal of money to completely change the energy structure and adopt clean energy,” he said.
China would “need time” to catch up with the US, Europe and Japan in the use of clean energy technology, he said.
Chinese analysts have in the past expressed disappointment with the level of environmental technology transfer, a key goal of the Kyoto Protocol.
However, Beijing is benefiting from trading schemes set up under the protocol that are intended to find the most efficient ways to cut total emissions by allowing companies and countries to buy “carbon credits” that represent reductions achieved in China.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e7301c1e-b5fc-11db-9eea-0000779e2340.html
Suure yhtiöt vievät tuotantoaan mm. Kiinaan, meiltä lähtee koko ajan työpaikkoja. Voisi kuvitella että rahallisen hyvän myötä positiiviset arvot kasvaisivat ahneuden sijaan. Mutta ei...lisää on saatava. Niin myös Kiinan. Mitä väliä on sillä missä jamassa on maapallo, kunhan heille rahaa syydetään? Suuruudenhullut valtiot unohtavat niin usein miten ne ovat aivan yhtälailla osa kokonaisuutta.
Mihin johtaa tämä rahanahne paskanjauhanta ilmastopoliittisissa kysymyksissä?
China blames the west for global warming
By Mure Dickie in Beijing
Published: February 6 2007 18:07 | Last updated: February 6 2007 18:07
Rich industrialised nations must take the lead in cutting greenhouse gases since they bear the “unshirkable responsibility” for causing global warming, a Chinese official said on Tuesday.
The comments by a foreign ministry spokeswoman underscore China’s determination not to allow international action on climate change to undermine its economic development.
Rapid economic growth, a huge population and inefficient industry have made China the world’s second largest carbon emitter after the US – new data show that power generating capacity in the country in 2006 expanded by an amount equal to the entire capacity of the UK and Thailand combined. But the country’s per capita emissions have remained far below the global average.
“It must be pointed out that climate change has been caused by the long-term historic emissions of developed countries and their high per-capita emissions,” Reuters news agency quoted Jiang Yu, a foreign ministry spokeswoman, at a briefing on Tuesday.
“Developed countries bear an unshirkable responsibility,” Ms Jiang said.
The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said last week that human activity was likely to cause global temperatures to rise about 3 degrees celsius by 2100, causing water shortages, heatwaves, storms and floods.
Beijing’s top weather bureau official said on Tuesday China was serious about tackling climate change but needs time to introduce the advanced environmental technology available to developed countries.
Qin Dahe, head of the China Meteorological Administration, said Chinese per capita emissions in 2000 were just 0.65 tonnes per person - one fifth of levels in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries.
There have been recent signs that Beijing is preparing to take a more activist approach on curbing emissions, following a official government enquiry that concluded warming could intensify China’s water shortages and undermine agriculture.
“The Chinese government takes the problem of climate change extremely seriously - President Hu Jintao has said that it is not just an environmental issue but a development issue,” Mr Qin said.
Wen Jiabao, the premier, was also “very seriously” pushing officials at all levels to achieve the government target of improving energy efficiency by 4 per cent a year, he said.
However, the comments by Ms Jiang and Mr Qin offer no encouragement for international critics who feel that China should impose limits on its greenhouse gas emissions.
Beijing has been reluctant to discuss what role it might play in carbon curbs after the present provisions of the Kyoto Protocol expire in 2012.
Along with India and other developing countries, China was exempted from emissions curbs under the protocol, which was anyway never ratified by the US.
Mr Qin made clear that other countries should not expect too much of China.
“As a developing country with a fast growing economy and large population, it will require a great deal of money to completely change the energy structure and adopt clean energy,” he said.
China would “need time” to catch up with the US, Europe and Japan in the use of clean energy technology, he said.
Chinese analysts have in the past expressed disappointment with the level of environmental technology transfer, a key goal of the Kyoto Protocol.
However, Beijing is benefiting from trading schemes set up under the protocol that are intended to find the most efficient ways to cut total emissions by allowing companies and countries to buy “carbon credits” that represent reductions achieved in China.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e7301c1e-b5fc-11db-9eea-0000779e2340.html
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Vanhimmat
kun keskitytään vain yhteen asiaan, eikä enää nähdä muuta. Siinä on jotain magiaa, lupausta paremmasta.. invidualismi on parasta.
Miten intiaanit amerikassa olivatkaan tyytyväisiä elämäänsä,vaikkei ollutkaan rahaa? heille luonto ei ollut uhka vaan ystävä, kun taas valkoiselle luonto oli vihamielinen, koska valkoinen ei osannut sopeutua, vaan vaati enemmänkin luontoa sopeutumaan omaan asenteensa.. Nyt sitä sitten mennään.
Intiaaneille kotiplaneetta on Äiti Maa, rahanahneille hyödyke mistä repiä tuottoa ja mitä voi saastuttaa. Minkälainen eläin kusee omaan pesäänsä? Mistä parempia johtajia viemään meitä eteenpäin?
On ironista ajatella että Pohjois-Amerikan intiaanien kotimaa on muuttunut maailman pahimmaksi saastuttajaksi. Muuttuko ilmastopolitiikka USA:ssa Bushin valtakauden päätyttyä?
Suomessa eduskuntavaalit lähestyvät. Moni ystävä aikoo äänestää. Monet kokevat että eduskunnassa on liikaa julkkispellejä ihmissuhdeselvityksineen, liian vähän asiantuntijoita.
Vai intiaanit sinuja luonnon kanssa. Lintujen sulatkin pääkoristeina. Tappoivat toisiaan ja hävittivät minkä kerkisivät. Jopa kulttuureja. Olisivat myös tuhonneet luonnonkin, jos keinot olisivat keksineet. Ainoastaa erot rotujen älykkyydessä aiheutti intiaanien häviön. Ja hyvä niin, näin valkonaaman vinkkelistä katsoen. Turha luulla että joku ryhmä tyytyisi olotilaansa jos siitä eteenpäin pääsee.
Äänestä lompakollasi. Boikoitoi saastuttajamaiden tuotteita.
Miten käy suomalaisen työläisen jos ei tuotteet mene kaupaksi. Suomihan on suurimpia saastuttajia henkilöä kohti laskettuna. Näin ainakin piiperöt väittävät olevansa. Minä itse en saastuta, enkä halua että tekemiäni tuotteita poikotoidaa. Olen kyllä huomannut että naapurin piipusta tulee savua aina silloin tällöin.
Ja "meidän tulee toimia esimerkkinä maailmalle" EU-Suomessa häviäjät.
Ei pojat. Ei ne opintotuet näin nouse! Mennäänpäs nyt tuon suon yli niin, että heilahtaa.
Tuolla on hyvä kirjoitus aiheesta
http://kurkiaura.blogspot.com/2007/01/luonnonvarojen-riittvyys.html
täällä hurraamaaan Kiinan puolesta, siinä teille esimerkkivaltio!