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Emissions Cap for Poor Unlikely at Bali Talks
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The chance that developing countries would accept firm emissions-cutting targets receded on Friday, as U.N.-led talks to launch negotiations on a climate pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol inched forwards. 'Binding commitments for developing countries are not off the table but are crawling towards the edge,' he said of the possibility that developing nations would agree to join many rich nations in capping greenhouse gas emissions. (Reuters [1], Friday)
Luckily for the poor, unluckily for everybody else.
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How Environmentalism Disdains the Poor [2] by E. Calvin Beisner
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[1] Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSSP13425920071207?feedType=RSSamp;feedName=scienceNews
[2] How Environmentalism Disdains the Poor: http://www.fee.org/Publications/the-Freeman/article.asp?aid=3477
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