[Vision2020] Institute for Public Accuracy: China, U.S. and Global Warming‏

[Ted Moffett]

http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2127

Institute for Public Accuracy
980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
(202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa at accuracy.org
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

China, U.S. and Global Warming

*SIMONE LOVERA* <simone.lovera at globalforestcoalition.org>
Based in Paraguay, Lovera is co-founder of the *Global Forest
Coalition*<http://www.globalforestcoalition.org/>.
She said today: "The U.S. per capita carbon dioxide emissions are so much
higher than China's emissions. In 2005, the U.S. was nearly 23.5 while China
is 5.5 [tons of CO2 per person per year]. It's inappropriate for the U.S. to
be demanding that China reduce emissions unless you somehow argue that the
U.S. has a right to pollute the rest of the planet and China doesn't. China
actually showed real leadership in the voluntary commitments it made at the
UN General Assembly meeting in September. I understand Obama has to deal
with the U.S. Senate, but U.S. officials are actually obstructing progress
at the international climate negotiations. The Europeans have agreed to a 20
percent reduction -- the Scottish [government] agreed to 40 percent. The
U.S. government is stopping these from being binding commitments. Meanwhile,
studies are finding that 300,000 people are dying because of climate
disruption; countries in the Pacific are on course to be under water."

Lovera will be at the Copenhagen summit on climate change from December 5 to
19.

See: "*Global Warming Causes 300,000 Deaths a Year, Says Kofi Annan think
tank: Climate change is greatest humanitarian challenge facing the world as
heatwaves, floods and forest fires become more
severe*<http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/29>"


Lovera is also reachable via *Hallie Boas <hallie at globaljusticeecology.org>*.


Boas is coordinator of *New Voices on Climate Change for the Global Justice
Ecology Project* <http://globaljusticeecology.org/newvoices.php> and can
connect media to individuals and groups working on global warming around the
world.


For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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