BushCo@work User ID: 50457 United States 12/09/2005 10:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Leaked Memo Reveals Sweeping Corporate Plan To Wreck Climate Action In EU Leaked Memo Reveals Sweeping Corporate Plan To Wreck Climate Action In EU A detailed and disturbing strategy document has revealed an extraordinary American plan to destroy Europe's support for the Kyoto treaty on climate change. The ambitious, behind-the-scenes plan was passed to The Independent this week, just as 189 countries are painfully trying to agree the second stage of Kyoto at the UN climate conference in Montreal. It was pitched to companies such as Ford Europe, Lufthansa and the German utility giant RWE. Put together by a lobbyist who is a senior official at a group partly funded by ExxonMobil, the world's biggest oil company and a fierce opponent of anti-global warming measures, the plan seeks to draw together major international companies, academics, think-tanks, commentators, journalists and lobbyists from across Europe into a powerful grouping to destroy further EU support for the treaty. It details just how the so-called "European Sound Climate Policy Coalition" would work. Based in Brussels, the plan would have anti-Kyoto position papers, expert spokesmen, detailed advice and networking instantly available to any politician or company who wanted to question the wisdom of proceeding with Kyoto and its demanding cuts in carbon dioxide emissions. It has been drawn up by Chris Horner, a senior official with the Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute and a veteran campaigner against Kyoto and against the evidence of climate change. One of his colleagues who describes himself as an adviser to President George Bush was the subject of a censure motion by the Commons last year after he attacked the Government's chief scientist. Mr Horner, whose CEI group has received almost $1.5m (£865,000) from ExxonMobil, is convinced that Europe could be successfully influenced by such a policy coalition just as the US government has been. EDIT While there is nothing illegal about the lobbying, the documents reveal a rare insight into the well-funded efforts within the US to influence opinion at senior levels of European corporations. Campaigners say the campaign is similar to a notorious lobbying effort carried out during the 1990s to undermine support for Kyoto within the US. The revelation comes as international negotiators in Montreal are discussing the next step within Kyoto and the possibility of introducing new emissions targets. The Bush administration which has rejected the treaty has insisted it will not agree to any measures that legally bind it to reduce emissions. Mr Horner has been present this week in Montreal. EDIT [ link to news.independent.co.uk] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 2394 United States 12/09/2005 10:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Leaked Memo Reveals Sweeping Corporate Plan To Wreck Climate Action In EU That's a bad link there, buddy. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 45871 Japan 12/10/2005 01:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Leaked Memo Reveals Sweeping Corporate Plan To Wreck Climate Action In EU seems like the real players can benefit more from Kyoto than the sycophants can.
Will America ever ask a question? |
Shadow
User ID: 28847 Canada 12/10/2005 01:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Leaked Memo Reveals Sweeping Corporate Plan To Wreck Climate Action In EU Washington furious over Martin's climate change comments [ link to www.cbc.ca] Over the side and damn the barracuda |
neti User ID: 46925 Australia 12/10/2005 05:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Leaked Memo Reveals Sweeping Corporate Plan To Wreck Climate Action In EU
Thanks Shadow for your link, and to the op. It's the oil companies and the banks which are in cahoots. That's outlined in 'Subject: Mafia Control of Aust and NZ' [ link to www.freedomdomain.com] It's a damming indictment. And you ought to read about the damage to the Ozone layer from nuclear processes, and their knock-on effects, [ link to www.godlikeproductions.com] [ link to www.gaiaguys.net] , fine negative particles being expelled to the upper atmosphere. |