Australia part of rich cabal - “Circle of Commitment” trashing climate talks

In a bizarre twist on the second day of Copenhagen talks, it has been revealed that Australia is part of a cabal of rich polluting nations including the UK, U.S. and Denmark called the “Circle of Commitment” planning a new agreement that favours the rich nations and sidelines the UN.

The Guardian newspaper has leaked the contents of the draft final agreement prepared by the Circle of Commitment (which sounds like an evil group of villains from a Bond movie!).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/08/copenhagen-climate-change

The paper has caused outrage from poorer nations for the following reasons

It would allow residents of rich nations in 2050 to still be polluting twice as much carbon per head as residents of poorer nations
It allows loopholes to allow pollution to continue
It sidelines the UN in future negotiations
It wants to put the control of the money which will be given to poorer nations to the World Bank, a body incidentally controlled overwhelming by and for the interests of the worlds rich natons.

Its great to see Kevin Rudd is not content with drafting an ETS which only serves to reward polluters is now taking his selfish profit driven approach to climate change to the world stage.

To read more about the “circle of commitments” dirty work at
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2009/s2765873.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/08/copenhagen-climate-sum...

http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091209/GLOBALBRIE...