UN climate official defends global emissions program

International Herald Tribune by Elisabeth Rosenthal | Dec. 5, 2008 (News Report)

After a U.S. government report this week called into question the efficacy of the United Nations' global trading scheme to reduce greenhouse emissions, the top UN climate official defended the program Friday and said he expected the United States to commit to emissions targets under a new administration.

Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, called the report, released this week by the U.S. General ... Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Dec. 7, 2008

The story shows the juncture of bush, climate change, the UN, and the change in the political climate with the new administration.

The U.S. report, released Tuesday, said that the system did not always have the desired effect because it was hard to monitor and assess the distant projects. Some people were gaming the system, getting offsets for projects that would have occurred anyway or which not actually have beneficial environmental effect.

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