So I am watching the cbs news tonight and they are interviewing an EAHS alum in Copenhagen. That was weird seeing someone I knew. Here is what she thought of Obama’s so called sucess…
Below are my initial impressions upon listening to Barack Obama’s announcement about the so-called agreement reached in Copenhagen. Tune in tomorrow for a full analysis of the negotiations and the outcomes.
Initial reactions:
This was a total subversion of the UNFCCC COP process. The Obama Administration succeeded in throwing aside the legally binding Kyoto Protocol, and the two track process agreed in Bali.
The agreement reached is not only undemocratic, it is not legally binding, it is voluntary, and its commitments made on a country by country basis.
Obama made an agreement with “key players” in the game and essentially flipped off the rest–especially the ALBA countries. The African countries were outraged by the backroom dealings with Ethiopia by Obama and by France–which were carried out in the name of all of Africa without their consent.
Is Global Justice Ecology Project shocked at these developments? Nope. It is business as usual, as predicted. This was the reason we participated in the founding of Climate Justice Action and the organizing of the Reclaim Power action that brought together social movements around the world to begin to discuss what the new world we know we need will look like.
More tomorrow,
Anne Petermann
Executive Director
