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Deep Pacific disappointment over Polish climate talks

A United Nations climate change conference in Poland has failed to meet the expectations of its Pacific participants.

The executive director of Oxfam New Zealand says NGOs are deeply disappointed at the lack of concrete progress made at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change conference, which officially ends tomorrow.

More than 10 Pacific countries are parties to the Convention, which aimed at this meeting to make significant progress towards a new international pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.

But Barry Coates says a heroic performance by Pacific countries has not been enough to galvanise the richer countries into action.

“Tuvalu made an absolutely emotive and powerful appeal at the assembly today. Other Pacific countries have really stepped up to the mark. They’ve also quoted science, they’ve tried to keep the richer countries honest in terms of what their commitments should be...I think it’d be good if when they came back to the Pacific they were celebrated as really having done a good job”

IBD: The U.N.'s Global Warming Muzzle

The wasteful, corrupt, dictatorship-dominated U.N. may not be successful in fulfilling very many of its supposed objectives — world peace, the end of poverty, mutual understanding, etc. — but when it comes to suppressing contrarian points of view that interfere with official U.N. stances, the organization ranks with the best.
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It increasingly seems that ideology and a wish to see the industrialized free West reduced in economic status is what motivates U.N. climate policy, not science. But these hundreds of competent scientists dedicated to the truth are not about to let their mouths be covered — even by a United Nations olive branch.