Blair campaigns for climate action
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has become an activist on the issue of Climate Change. Making speeches and calling for action on the Climate Crisis.
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On Friday in Japan, where the G8 summit of global leaders will convene next week, Blair released a global warming report titled "Breaking the Climate Deadlock" that he'd helped guide with the Climate Group, a London-based environmental NGO. The study plots a roadmap for international climate negotiations between now and the end of 2009, when the world's nations will meet in Copenhagen to hammer out a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. More than 10 years after the Protocol was signed, the world is still has yet to achieve a fairer and more effective climate deal — even as the scientific consensus on global warming has darkened considerably. Politics haven't caught up with climatology.
Blair's choice of venues wasn't an accident — global warming is likely to be high on the agenda at the G8, where leaders from the world's biggest economies, along with representatives from major developing nations like China and India, will try to set a long-term goal for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. Speaking in Tokyo, Blair urged world leaders to commit to cutting global carbon emissions 50% by 2050 — including developing nations, which have no obligations under Kyoto — and paving the way toward a firm interim target for cuts by developed nations by 2020. Without near-term goals, a promise to cut emissions four decades in the future is virtually meaningless. But for years many developed nations — most significantly but not solely the U.S. — have been reluctant to fix themselves to carbon caps while major developing nations remain unbound to any commitments. China and India, however, refuse to consider carbon-cutting action that could slow their exploding economic growth. Hence the climate deadlock — an appropriate word — the former Prime Minister has set himself to break. "Now is the moment to get serious about a solution," Blair said in a speech Friday. "Such a solution has to be global."
Full Article released by Time Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1818783,0...
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On Friday in Japan, where the G8 summit of global leaders will convene next week, Blair released a global warming report titled "Breaking the Climate Deadlock" that he'd helped guide with the Climate Group, a London-based environmental NGO. The study plots a roadmap for international climate negotiations between now and the end of 2009, when the world's nations will meet in Copenhagen to hammer out a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. More than 10 years after the Protocol was signed, the world is still has yet to achieve a fairer and more effective climate deal — even as the scientific consensus on global warming has darkened considerably. Politics haven't caught up with climatology.
Blair's choice of venues wasn't an accident — global warming is likely to be high on the agenda at the G8, where leaders from the world's biggest economies, along with representatives from major developing nations like China and India, will try to set a long-term goal for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. Speaking in Tokyo, Blair urged world leaders to commit to cutting global carbon emissions 50% by 2050 — including developing nations, which have no obligations under Kyoto — and paving the way toward a firm interim target for cuts by developed nations by 2020. Without near-term goals, a promise to cut emissions four decades in the future is virtually meaningless. But for years many developed nations — most significantly but not solely the U.S. — have been reluctant to fix themselves to carbon caps while major developing nations remain unbound to any commitments. China and India, however, refuse to consider carbon-cutting action that could slow their exploding economic growth. Hence the climate deadlock — an appropriate word — the former Prime Minister has set himself to break. "Now is the moment to get serious about a solution," Blair said in a speech Friday. "Such a solution has to be global."
Full Article released by Time Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1818783,0...
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Is it just me or do these people find ways to stay in the media for a reason or are they just really self absorbed?
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- jason1973tl
- 3 months ago
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Maybe he should have thought about the environment before he helped Bush destroy Iraq?
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- Marilynn_Murray
- 3 months ago
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Corporate tool. I don't believe a WORD. Convince me you're not all lies, please.
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Another wolf in sheep's clothing. It's funny how politicians crap all over the world, but once they are out of office, they all become humanitarian advocates.
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Is it me, or does he look about 20 years older than yesterday, in that photo...????
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He belongs in prison with Bushie and Chehey and the ier co-horts in the killing of 100,000 puls innocent people.
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war criminal who sold out the very idea of a Labour party.
or Alright guy who plays a guitar.
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- Owwmykneecap
- 3 months ago
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Al Gore version 2
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- cubbingabout
- 3 months ago
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Post-Downing St PR gone wrong.
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- Mr_Costello
- 3 months ago
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I'm impressed. He's a changed man. Sure he helped destroy Iraq, would help if he could destroy Iran. But now he has shown a softer side of Tony. He is out to save the planet. If he can get this ball rolling maybe no one will blame him when the entire middle east is a ball of fire. You go Tony, who knows some people will believe you. There are about twenty-five people that still believe in George Bush. He doesn't seem to suffer much from it because he is filthy rich, I'm fairly sure you got your pile of money socked away too. Now it's time to work on the PR. When the war crimes trials start maybe they won't include you if you keep busy on the environment.
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- Marilynn_Murray
- 3 months ago
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This man disgusts me.
He had 11 years to make a direct impact on the gamut of global issues and instead spent it on a vain attempt to be personally remembered as history's great saviour.
His choreographed posturing on the UK stage and spinelessness in collusion with Bush and his businessmen have sent the world into a new dark age.-
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- sybaritical
- 3 months ago
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