COP15: A Neo-colonial Climate Regime Revealed

Patrick Henningsen
Correspondent in Copenhagen
December 9, 2009

New developments at the UN’s International Summit on Climate Change have threatened to further side track a meaningful Treaty next week in Copenhagen.

Known as the Danish Text Leak, http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... anish-text a story that broken yesterday by the UK’s Guardian Newspaper, it details a secret agreement that effectively disbands the Kyoto protocol’s original plan http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/kyoto-protocol to have so called ‘developed’ nations like the US and Europe foot the bill for global emissions reductions, as well contravening the UN’s own traditional mission to provide a “balance of obligationsâ€