Comments on: Holdren’s high hopes for China http://hot-topic.co.nz/holdrens-high-hopes-for-china/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=holdrens-high-hopes-for-china Global warming and the future of New Zealand Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:26:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Prescott: Plan B for Copenhagen failure? — Hot Topic http://hot-topic.co.nz/holdrens-high-hopes-for-china/comment-page-1/#comment-6614 Prescott: Plan B for Copenhagen failure? — Hot Topic Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:05:52 +0000 http://hot-topic.co.nz/?p=2714#comment-6614 [...] with their achievement, and be reminded of the substance of John Holdren’s comment in his recent interview with Elizabeth Kolbert:  “I’m not saying it’s the end of the world if we don’t get it [...] [...] with their achievement, and be reminded of the substance of John Holdren’s comment in his recent interview with Elizabeth Kolbert:  “I’m not saying it’s the end of the world if we don’t get it [...]

]]> By: cindy http://hot-topic.co.nz/holdrens-high-hopes-for-china/comment-page-1/#comment-6479 cindy Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:51:08 +0000 http://hot-topic.co.nz/?p=2714#comment-6479 Perhaps Holdren should come to Bonn and watch first hand as the US delegation, led by former WRI head Jonathan Pershing, systematically tries to take down the multilateral system set up by the UNFCCC and to get everyone to adopt a weak, bottom-up approach that will have no hope in hell of keeping temperature rise to below two degrees (the temperature threshold agreed by the G8). thanks to the US the developed country aggregate target currently stands at 10-16%. That's hardly going to see emissions peaking by 2015. It would be nice if the likes of Holdren were running the climate policy in the US. But he's not. It's the likes of Larry Summers who ran the G8 fiasco. Perhaps Holdren should come to Bonn and watch first hand as the US delegation, led by former WRI head Jonathan Pershing, systematically tries to take down the multilateral system set up by the UNFCCC and to get everyone to adopt a weak, bottom-up approach that will have no hope in hell of keeping temperature rise to below two degrees (the temperature threshold agreed by the G8).

thanks to the US the developed country aggregate target currently stands at 10-16%. That’s hardly going to see emissions peaking by 2015.

It would be nice if the likes of Holdren were running the climate policy in the US. But he’s not. It’s the likes of Larry Summers who ran the G8 fiasco.

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