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2006-01-10 Science & Technology

What to expect from the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2006-01-10 14:48|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "...UN becomes more irrelivant...."

To become irrelivant you must first be relevant.

I was in Las Vegas last weekend. Did some world shattering event happen that I missed?

Posted by kelly 2006-01-10 16:33|| 2006-01-10 16:33|| Front Page Top

#2 New Zealand makes an interesting Kyoto case study. They originally signed up believing they would get a net financial benefit from Kyoto, since then costs have steadily increased and are now well north of a billion dollars (for a very small economy). Energy costs to the consumer have increased sharply. And all kinds of distortions and adverse environmental consequences have resulted such as large scale clearing of forests.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-01-10 17:09|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-01-10 17:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Right, phil_b. Saw this in NZ last year. They did not pencil it out first, but went with their feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelings. And now they regret it.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-01-10 17:43|| 2006-01-10 17:43|| Front Page Top

#4 I knew when I read "Holy Schitskis!" that it was your post AP...lol!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-01-10 18:00|| 2006-01-10 18:00|| Front Page Top

#5 An agreement that actually means something. I means people are acting out of self interest not out of some loonie half science half religious Tranzi political agenda.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2006-01-10 18:11|| 2006-01-10 18:11|| Front Page Top

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