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AS the Waters Rise
As world leaders met to discuss climate change at the United Nations this week, protesters outside
seemed unconvinced that drowning islands and expanding deserts were the plane s biggest woe.
Latin Americans lamented the imperialism of the United States. Vietnamese with Buddhist flags
decried
their
govermnent
s
impiety,
while
emigres
from
Iran
deplored
their
rulers
religious
fervour.
Inside the building, concerns were almost as diffuse. Some thought the most pressing aspect of
climate
change
was
rising
sea
levels;
others,
the growing
intensity
of
storms
and droughts;
and
others
the
spread
of
pests
and
diseases.
Many
poor
countries
felt
more
money
was
needed
to
address the problem; rich ones fretted about a lack of political will and popular enthusiasm. South
Africa wanted more mainstreaming of women and youth . Bolivia s president, Evo Morales, called
capitalism
the
worst
enemy
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A
sheikh
from
the
United
Arab
Emirates
said
too
vigorous
a
response to global warming could wreck oil-dependent economies. And President George Bush,
not content with the UN event, held his own meeting on climate change on September 27th.
In theory, both his gathering and the UN one aimed to foster debate about a successor to the Kyoto
protocol
the
UN
s
existing
treaty
on
climate
change,
which
expires
in
2012.
But
the
rhetoric
surrounding
the
two
deliberations
was
very
different.
At
the
UN
meeting,
almost
every
leader
spoke of common but differentiated responsibilities ---jargon for the idea that rich countries must
cut their emissions of greenhouse gases, while poor ones carry on as normal unless the rich world
pays for them to clean up their act. The White House affair, meanwhile, focused on disseminating
green technology. The implicit message was that binding emissions targets are counter-productive,
and that any solution must involve poor countries as well as rich ones.
Yvo
de
Boer,
head
of
the
agency
that
oversees
Kyoto
and
its
precursor,
the
United
Nations
Framework
Convention
on Climate
Change,
says
the
gulf
between America
and
the
rest
is
less
wide than it appears. Although Mr. Bush is not yet ready to contemplate a binding international
treaty that would limit greenhouse-gas emissions, he does advocate policies that could help trim
America s emissions. As it is, states representing over half of America s emissions have pledged
cuts
of
some
kind.
Congress,
meanwhile,
is
contemplating
several
bills
that
would
impose
a
national
cap.
Australia,
the
other
rich
country
that
rejected
Kyoto,
is
also
working
on
an