In China, Pelosi Hopes for Allies in Combatting Climate Change

[Coventina]

Source: Washington Post

BEIJING, May 23 -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who unfurled a banner in Tiananmen Square in 1991 in support of pro-democracy protesters, has never been shy about speaking her mind about human rights in China.

But on Sunday, she arrived here to talk about a less sensitive topic: climate change.

At a briefing in Washington just before leaving for her week-long trip, Pelosi declined to say whether she planned to discuss human rights with her hosts. Instead, she said the focus of her visit would be securing support for a global pact on reducing carbon emissions to help combat climate change, in advance of a major international gathering in Copenhagen in December.

"We have to . . . learn from each other as we go forward. So that is the subject," she told reporters, ignoring several requests to address human rights issues.



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/23/AR2009052301089.html

[Uncle Joe]

1. I do believe addressing and curtailing global warming climate change to be the ultimate human right

issue currently facing humanity.

There can be no life on a dead planet and by current trends, that's the direction I see the Earth headed to.

Good for Congressperson Pelosi, I hope her trip is fruitful.

Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Coventina.

[YvonneCa]

2. I agree. And she'll be in good company...

...in that effort:

http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/05/22/climate-legislation-moving-closer-to-vote/

[ohio2007]

5. she obviously can't do more then one task is what you are saying

China isn't going to change their coal fired power industry as you think they will by her presence behind the wall.
photo op,eat some food but talk real issues?

LOL.
She is going over there wearing "knee pads" if, as you say, she can only deal with one threat to hunmanity.

Global warming is the cover story to the real buisness going on.

[excess_3]

3. what airplane is N.P. flying in?

commercial jet

Air Force G-5
Air Force something else

?

[ohio2007]

4. Pelosi Mum On Rights Before Trip To China ( she aint the woman she was in '91 )

For the second time this year, a top U.S. official visiting China has declined in advance to publicly discuss Beijing's human rights record, a shift in practice that comes almost exactly two decades after the Tiananmen Square massacre.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who collided with Chinese authorities in 1991 when she unfurled a banner memorializing those who died in the square, arrived here Sunday saying only that she planned to discuss climate change with Chinese officials.

At a briefing in Washington before leaving for her week-long trip, Pelosi declined to say whether she planned to discuss human rights with her hosts.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/23/AR2009052301876.html?wprss=rss_politics

She is looking for China to give her a little 'credit' for being all buisness on this official visit.


they say a woman can be rather fickle

[G_j]

6. Gore, others urge CEOs to back climate change dea

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090524/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_denmark_climate_conference


Gore, others urge CEOs to back climate change deal


By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 19 mins ago

COPENHAGEN – Climate-change heavyweights U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and Nobel prize winner Al Gore urged more than 500 business leaders on Sunday to lend their corporate muscle to reaching a global deal on reducing greenhouse gases.

The CEOs of PepsiCo, Nestle, BP and other of the world's major businesses began meeting in Copenhagen, where politicians will gather in December to negotiate a new U.N.-brokered climate treaty.
Despite the global financial crisis, both Ban and Gore said there was no time for delay in hashing out the specifics of how to cut greenhouse gases that contribute to warming the planet.
"We have to do it this year. Not next year. This year," Gore said. "The clock is ticking, because Mother Nature does not do bailouts."

The three-day World Business Summit on Climate Change is a precursor to the negotiations to determine what will succeed the Kyoto climate treaty that expires in 2012.
"Continuing to pour trillions of dollars into fossil-fuel subsidies is like investing in subprime real estate," Ban said. "Our carbon-based infrastructure is like a toxic asset that threatens the portfolio of global goods, from public health to food security."

A new global warming treaty would build on the Kyoto treaty's mixed success in requiring that 37 industrialized nations reduce greenhouse gas emissions an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.
Gore said any of the ambitious treaty goals being discussed will depend on CEOs working out greener ways of doing business and governments reining in unrestricted pollution.

"The business community and the leaders of the world must go together to safeguard the world," he told a forum that drew even Queen Margrethe of Denmark.
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