'Climate Court'

United Nations climate envoys have proposed the creation of a global "climate court" that would be responsible for enforcing a sprawling set of rules requiring developed countries to cut emissions while compensating poorer countries in order to pay off a "historical climate debt."


In the document is a provision calling for "an international climate court of justice."

The court would presumably enforce are based on the view that these developed countries owe developing countries a "debt" over climate change, and must provide financial aid in addition to taking major steps toward cutting emissions.

In one section, the document calls for developed countries to help poorer countries with "finance, technology and capacity building" so they can "adapt to and mitigate climate change" while helping eliminate poverty. Another section provides that developing countries should receive an amount of money equal to the amount "developed countries spend on defense, security and warfare."


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/10/un-floats-global-climate-court-to-enforce-emissions-rules/#ixzz1gKJk7lae

Agree or disagree ?

Originally posted by utherpendragon

United Nations climate envoys have proposed [b]the creation of a global "climate court" that would be responsible for enforcing a sprawling set of rules requiring developed countries to cut emissions while compensating poorer countries in order to pay off a "historical climate debt."


In the document is a provision calli ...[text shortened]... rt-to-enforce-emissions-rules/#ixzz1gKJk7lae

Agree or disagree ?[/b]

Regardless of whether we agree or disagree, it will never catch on!

Originally posted by Teinosuke
Regardless of whether we agree or disagree, it will never catch on!

Do you think it should 'catch on' ? Would this be good ?

Originally posted by utherpendragon
Do you think it should 'catch on' ? Would this be good ?

I think the debt is likely unquantifiable. It seems fairly obvious that it's in the long-term strategic interests of developed countries to provide financial and technological development aid to poorer countries (as well as being the moral thing to do), and I don't see why that aid needs to be harnessed to the issue of climate change.

Originally posted by Teinosuke
I think the debt is likely unquantifiable. It seems fairly obvious that it's in the long-term strategic interests of developed countries to provide financial and technological development aid to poorer countries (as well as being the moral thing to do), and I don't see why that aid needs to be harnessed to the issue of climate change.

Because adhering to climate change guidelines will supposedly retard the development of the poorer countries. They don't want climate guidelines to be a mechanism for locking them into their inferior developmental status.

Originally posted by utherpendragon

United Nations climate envoys have proposed [b]the creation of a global "climate court" that would be responsible for enforcing a sprawling set of rules requiring developed countries to cut emissions while compensating poorer countries in order to pay off a "historical climate debt."


In the document is a provision calli ...[text shortened]... rt-to-enforce-emissions-rules/#ixzz1gKJk7lae

Agree or disagree ?[/b]

This almost sounds like a parody of the what the bastard child of the marriage between the wealth redistribution and environmentalist movements might look like.

As for Jim Inhofe (whose aide is quoted in the article) and his ilk, this proposal is a wet dream. A more enormous stick with which to beat the cap and trade proponents with in the court of American public opinion can scarcely be imagined.

Originally posted by Teinosuke
I think the debt is likely unquantifiable. It seems fairly obvious that it's in the long-term strategic interests of developed countries to provide financial and technological development aid to poorer countries (as well as being the moral thing to do), and I don't see why that aid needs to be harnessed to the issue of climate change.

I think we should just wait until the damage (if any) is done. You can't quantify this debt but you can measure how many feet of water is on top of your former country. Once we know that we can offer the victims WalMart gift cards.