[Vision2020] Attendees At UN Climate Conference Pay For Conference Associated CO2 Emissions

[Ted Moffett]

Roger et. al.

Many bought carbon credits to offset their CO2 emissions associated
with attending the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali.  So they are
practicing what they preach.  If all of us now started to pay for the
current and future economic costs of our CO2 emissions, economies and
lifestyles would adjust, and CO2 reducing technologies become more
widespread, to lower the carbon loading of the atmosphere.

These economic issues are very complex, and integrating a wise use of
regulation with free market incentives is a difficult problem.  Some
approaches will not work.  But experimenting with ways for the real
long term costs of CO2 emissions to now start being paid for, must be
accomplished one way or another.

The so called free market will not be faced with the extreme costs of
catastrophic climate change soon enough for the marketplace to address
the problem before atmospheric CO2 levels become dangerously high.
The pursuit of profit in the short term offers weak incentives to
address severe economic impacts that are 50-100 years away.  But as
the Stern report, and other economic and scientific studies of
anthropogenic climate change have revealed, the costs of significantly
lowering CO2 emissions now, and lessening climate change, are less
than ignoring the problem and facing the long term climate change
related economic impacts, that will occur without significant lowering
of emissions.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601170&refer=home&sid=aPbfclqokwcw

>From website above:

The U.K.'s 40-person team will have their emissions neutralized
through a central government fund, a spokeswoman for the country's
environment department said.

EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas and three of his staff are
buying so-called carbon credits, each representing a reduction of a
ton of carbon dioxide, on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, commission
spokeswoman Barbara Helfferich said in a telephone interview.
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

On Dec 5, 2007 11:03 AM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
> It seems somewhat hypocritical to me for these people to fly to Bali and create added pollution in doing so. Why not hold a tele conference. Lets practice what we preach.
> Roger
>
> -----Original message-----
> From: "Ted Moffett" starbliss at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:56:30 -0800
> To: "Vision 2020" vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Bali:UN Climate Change Conference:Australia GetsStanding Ovation Ratifying Kyoto
>
> > http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/04/2108567.htm
> >
> > During the United Nations Climate Change (UNCC) conference in Bali,
> > delegates broke into spontaneous applause when news of Australia's
> > decision was announced yesterday.
> >
> > Some delegates of the 12-day conference gave the Australian delegation
> > a standing ovation.
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