U.N. Climate Organization Wants Immunities Against Charges of Conflict of Interest, Exceeding Mandate, Among Others
Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 3:12PM Thursday, June 14, 2001—The UN Agency that is supposed to enforce cap-and-trade wants immunity from a wide range of misconduct and over-reach charges.
In other words, the consultants accused the Kyoto mechanism of a number of the same things that the UNFCCC hopes to avoid through the adoption of broader immunities.
A Brussels-based non-government organization named CDM-Watch, which says it is sponsored by the British government s Department for International Development and the International Climate Protection Initiative of the Federal Environment Ministry of Germany, among others, issued its own scathing critique of the Kyoto mechanism at a UNFCCC climate conference in Durban, South Africa, last December.
Among other things, CDM-Watch claimed that anywhere from 40 percent to 70 percent of CDM projects removed no additional carbon from the atmosphere, that CDM projects “have been known to cause social and environmental harm,” and that only the say-so of governments that host UNFCCC projects is involved in declaring whether the projects actually contribute to “sustainable development.”
In other words, the consultants accused the Kyoto mechanism of a number of the same things that the UNFCCC hopes to avoid through the adoption of broader immunities.
What this says is that an agency charged with imposing restrictions driven by a theory on the world has failed utterly to do it even when it supposedly has cooperation from nation-states, that it has siphoned off money and broken even the few laws that govern it, and that it wants to be free of those laws so that it may do more of the same in the future. Why after all should we question the wisdom of giving free reaign to the rutheless unprincipled to serve the agenda of the unthinking well-meaning?
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