US spying on Copenhagen climate summit was aimed at halting real climate solutions
By Brenda Norrell |
| Copenhagen 2009 by Ben Powless, Mohawk, IEN |
The latest documents released by Edward Snowden reveal that the US engaged in spying on other countries at the Copenhagen climate summit in order to support American interests and prevent any real climate solutions.
The US is historically the largest carbon emitter, which includes the coal-fired power plants on the Navajo Nation and elsewhere in Indian country.
Rallying in defense of Mother Earth in Copenhagen were large delegations of grassroots Native Americans and First Nations, along with Indigenous Peoples from around the world, working for real climate solutions.
Copenhagen become "Hopenhagen" with new hope for climate solutions and protection of the planet. Carrying forward this hope, Indigenous Peoples gathered in Cochabamba, Bolivia, with President Evo Morales the following year in 2010 for the Protection of Mother Earth Conference, which ignited the movement for the defense of the Rights of Nature, with the release of the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth.
The documents leaked by Snowden were made public on Wednesday night by the Danish daily Information. The Danish Information reports:
"At the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, the world's nations were supposed to reach an agreement that would protect future generations against catastrophic climate change. But not everyone was playing by the rules. A leaked document now reveals that the US employed the NSA, its signals intelligence agency, to intercept information about other countries' views on the climate negotiations before and during the summit."
"... the document suggests that the NSA's actual focus in relation to climate change was spying on other countries to collect intelligence that would support American interests, rather than preventing future climate catastrophes. It describes the US as being under pressure because of its role as the historically largest carbon emitter."
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| In the mountains of Bolivia President Evo Morales 2010 Photo Brenda Norrell |
After the failure of the Copenhagen climate summit, Bolivian President Evo Morales called for the summit in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
"Those most affected by climate change will be the poorest in the world who will see their homes and their sources of survival destroyed, and who will be forced to migrate and seek refuge," President Morales said.
"Those most affected by climate change will be the poorest in the world who will see their homes and their sources of survival destroyed, and who will be forced to migrate and seek refuge," President Morales said.
President Morales pointed out that 75 percent of historical emissions of greenhouse gases originated in the countries of the North that followed a path of "irrational industrialization."
"Climate change is a product of the capitalist system," President Morales said. While citing regret at the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference, he said the so-called developed countries failed to recognize their climate debt to developing countries, future generations and Mother Earth.
Previous documents leaked by Snowden reveal that the NSA spied on the climate negotiations in Bali, which also attracted Native American delegations, including the Indigenous Environmental Network.
The Guardian reported, "Australian spy agency the Defence Signals Directorate worked alongside America’s National Security Agency in mounting a massive surveillance operation on Indonesia during the United Nations climate change conference in Bali in 2007." http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/02/nsa-australia-bali-conference-spy-indonesia
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1 comment:
" support American interests, rather than preventing future climate catastrophes"
Actually, I have been looking at this for years. One story was that the US switched position papers at the conference, which was leaked by the Danes. The changed outline would have given preferential rates to polluters.
But one must check out the reason for the IPCC to understand how devious things really are. It is an intergovernmental panel tasked with representing reasons to fear anthropogenic global warming, with 'scientific studies' funded to support the proposition that temperature is linked to energy consumption. People are freezing on the rez already. Global tax payable to the UN is not just regressive, it is a power grab affecting countries' autonomy. And the problem ? Increased co2 should stimulate plant growth if it works. If it doesn't - and there can be no proof it does as prophecy is involved - then it is a con.
The allegation that oil company shills are 'denying the science' is powerful libel - and it fixes discussion over the truth of an allegation being disputed rather than unproven. If it were proven we would have descriptions of process on a background of natural cycles. They aren't even trying.
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