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<br>Wednesday, November 18, 2009<br><br>China, U.S. and Global Warming<br> <br><a href="mailto:simone.lovera@globalforestcoalition.org"><strong><font color="#527194">SIMONE LOVERA</font></strong></a><br>Based in Paraguay, Lovera is co-founder of the <a href="http://www.globalforestcoalition.org/"><strong><font color="#527194">Global Forest Coalition</font></strong></a>. 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."<br>
<br>Lovera will be at the Copenhagen summit on climate change from December 5 to 19. <br><br>See: "<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/29"><strong><font color="#527194">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</font></strong></a>" <br>
<br>Lovera is also reachable via <b><a href="mailto:hallie@globaljusticeecology.org"><font color="#527194">Hallie Boas</font></a></b>. <br><br>Boas is coordinator of <a href="http://globaljusticeecology.org/newvoices.php"><strong><font color="#527194">New Voices on Climate Change for the Global Justice Ecology Project</font></strong></a> and can connect media to individuals and groups working on global warming around the world.<br>
<br><br>For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:<br>Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167<br>------------------------------------------</div>
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