"Obama Rebuffed As Superpowers Refuse To Sign Arctic Climate Agreement"
"But Russia (the world’s leading oil and gas producer), China (the world largest producer of goods), and India with its huge emerging economy opted not to sign the document, however nonbinding it might appear."
From Comments: Note that Canada didn’t even bother to attend Obama’s climate religion festival.
From the RT article...From Comments: Note that Canada didn’t even bother to attend Obama’s climate religion festival.
Saving the Arctic? Kerry's roadmap not melting hearts in Russia, China & India
Published time: 1 Sep, 2015 10:20Edited time: 1 Sep, 2015 14:53
The US-led GLACIER environmental conference in Anchorage ended with a joint declaration calling for more international action to tackle climate change. China, India and Russia abstained from signing the document.
There are differing opinions on the environmental effect of the warming up of the Arctic, and how this will affect the world’s leading economies.
But Russia (the world’s leading oil and gas producer),
China (the world largest producer of goods), and
India with its huge emerging economy
opted not to sign the document, however nonbinding it might appear.
For China and India reducing emissions entails huge expenditure and loss of economic effectiveness, and for Russia the upcoming environmental deal brings additional costs to the oil and gas extraction industries.China (the world largest producer of goods), and
India with its huge emerging economy
opted not to sign the document, however nonbinding it might appear.
Moscow is boosting Russia’s presence in the Arctic, including militarily, for at least two reasons: future hydrocarbons extraction and the Northern Sea Route, a much shorter way from Asia to Europe, which could soon be operable year-around because of less ice in the Arctic Ocean. https://www.rt.com/news/313975-arctic-conference-climate-roadmap/
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From the Diplomat...
On Sunday and Monday, foreign ministers and other international leaders met in Anchorage, Alaska to attend the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic. As a sign of the importance the United States placed on the Alaska forum, President Barack Obama attended. He used the conference as a platform for urging swifter action to combat climate change. After the conference, the representatives of the Arctic Council members signed a joint statement affirming “our commitment to take urgent action to slow the pace of warming in the Arctic.” China said that it needed more time to review the document before signing.
But RT had a different take, saying that China and India “opted not to sign the document” because “reducing emissions entails huge expenditure and loss of economic effectiveness.”
The failure to come to an agreement at the GLACIER conference sends a troubling signal for the Paris summit, and for U.S.-China cooperation in general. –Shannon Tiezzi, The Diplomat, 1 September 2015
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