Lord Christopher Monckton had some interesting comments about this "treaty".
Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty in Copenhagen, Claims British Lord Monckton « Watts Up With That?
A draft of the treaty: http://assets.panda.org/downloads/final_treaty_legal_text_with_cover.pdf
Transfer of Wealth:
Here's a few more gems:
This whole document is basically for setting up a transfer of wealth to the poor countries.
We are all responisble for things like "desertificaion", even though that is a natural process on Earth. And we will pay for it.
At [the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in] Copenhagen, this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed. Your president will sign it. Most of the third world countries will sign it, because they think theyre going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regime from the European Union will rubber stamp it. Virtually nobody wont sign it.
I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created. The word government actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third world countries, in satisfication of what is called, coyly, climate debt because weve been burning CO2 and they havent. Weve been screwing up the climate and they havent. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement.
How many of you think that the word election or democracy or vote or ballot occurs anywhere in the 200 pages of that treaty? Quite right, it doesnt appear once. So, at last, the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement, who took over Greenpeace so that my friends who funded it left within a year, because [the communists] captured it Now the apotheosis as at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world. You have a president who has very strong sympathies with that point of view. Hes going to sign it. Hell sign anything. Hes a Nobel Peace Prize [winner]; of course hell sign it.
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And the trouble is this; if that treaty is signed, if your Constitution says that it takes precedence over your Constitution (sic), and you cant resign from that treaty unless you get agreement from all the other state parties And because youll be the biggest paying country, theyre not going to let you out of it.
So, thank you, America. You were the beacon of freedom to the world. It is a privilege merely to stand on this soil of freedom while it is still free. But, in the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your humanity away forever. And neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect will have any power whatsoever to take it back. That is how serious it is. Ive read the treaty. Ive seen this stuff about [world] government and climate debt and enforcement. They are going to do this to you whether you like it or not.
But I think it is here, here in your great nation, which I so love and I so admire it is here that perhaps, at this eleventh hour, at the fifty-ninth minute and fifty-ninth second, you will rise up and you will stop your president from signing that dreadful treaty, that purposeless treaty. For there is no problem with climate and, even if there were, an economic treaty does nothing to [help] it.
So I end by saying to you the words that Winston Churchill addressed to your president in the darkest hour before the dawn of freedom in the Second World War. He quoted from your great poet Longfellow:
Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty in Copenhagen, Claims British Lord Monckton « Watts Up With That?
A draft of the treaty: http://assets.panda.org/downloads/final_treaty_legal_text_with_cover.pdf
Transfer of Wealth:
Article 7 Finance
1. A massive scaling up of financial resources, from both the public and private
sectors, is required in order to adequately, sufficiently and swiftly reduce
anthropogenic GHG emissions, adapt to climate change and achieve the ultimate
objective of the Convention and the shared vision. Developing country Parties
will require significant, stable and predictable financial support from
industrialized country Parties in order to fulfill their commitments under this
Protocol.
2. Parties included in Annex B shall, as a group, provide at least 160 billion USD per
year for the 2013-2017 commitment period as financial support to developing
country Parties for their low carbon development, technology, adaptation and
reducing emissions from deforestation efforts in line with Articles 4, 5, 8 and 9.
Additional financing is required and shall be made available for the reporting
requirements and capacity building efforts under this Protocol. The scale of
resources required shall be reviewed for each subsequent commitment period.
The CCF should oversee and manage all financial resources raised through the
means outlined in this Article, with the exception of a certain proportion that should
be allowed through bilateral or other multilateral initiatives (see paragraph 9 below).
These other initiatives must meet established MRV criteria in order to count towards
fulfillment of a Partys support obligations. The provisions for the funding window
structure are provided for in the CCF Article.
3. Auctioning of assigned amount units of all Parties included in Annex B shall be
the primary means of raising the level of resources necessary, pursuant to
paragraph 2, to support developing country Parties in achieving their aims and
implementing actions under this Protocol. [Ten] per cent of the assigned amount
units of each Party shall be auctioned per year of the 2013-2017 commitment
period; this percentage should increase in each subsequent commitment period.
Here's a few more gems:
14. Parties not included in Annex B, particularly LDC, SIDS and African countries
prone to droughts, desertification and flooding and other extremely poor and
vulnerable countries, shall be entitled to receive periodic grant instalments to
cover the full additional costs of on-going adaptation planning and
implementation.
This whole document is basically for setting up a transfer of wealth to the poor countries.
We are all responisble for things like "desertificaion", even though that is a natural process on Earth. And we will pay for it.