[Stoves] Fwd: [LeahyArticles] Climate negotiations; Canada Hides Tar Sands Emissions

[Lloyd Helferty]

"...there is a quick way to buy more time to make the switch from fossil 
fuels to alternatives.
  Serious reductions in air pollutants like soot and smog bring *cleaner 
air, less asthma/lung disease/heart attacks and could _cut warming by 30 
per cent._
* No new technology needed, just something like a /*Green Marshall 
Plan*/ to bring simple things like $20 clean-burning cooking stoves to 
hundreds of millions of people."

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Subject: 	[LeahyArticles] Climate negotiations; Canada Hides Tar Sands 
Emissions
Date: 	Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:05:53 +0200
From: 	stephen leahy <steve.leahy0 at gmail.com>
To: 	mailing list <leahyarticles at list.web.net>



Hi. Quick update here from the Bonn climate talks where a few countries 
(Canada, Japan, Russia, USA & Saudi Arabia) are blocking progress. It is 
difficult to be optimistic when countries continue to put their national 
interests ahead of an agreement -- even when their people want real 
action on climate change. *Democracy is being put to the test like never 
before.*

Negotiations will go late today (Friday). There are some positives which 
I will try to focus on in my final article.

First up. Canada's opposition to curbs on emissions arise from the fact 
it *has become an oil state like Saudi Arabia*. Other countries are 
finally beginning to criticize Canada for its hypocrisy -- and now fraud 
by trying to hide the emissions growth from its *mega-polluter the tar 
sands. *

Second there is a quick way to buy more time to make the switch from 
fossil fuels to alternatives. Serious reductions in air pollutants like 
soot and smog bring *cleaner air, less asthma/lung disease/heart attacks 
and could _cut warming by 30 per cent._ * No new technology needed, just 
something like a Green Marshall Plan to bring simple things like $20 
clean-burning cooking stove to hundreds of millions of people.

Finally my son's Derek's efforts to raise awareness about the dangers of 
Canada's Tar Sands has turned into a mega-movement with demonstrations 
in at *50 cities around the globe on Saturday June 18*. Here is his 
latest update 
<http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/blog/derek-leahy/what-international-stop-tar-sands-day>. 


Green wishes

Steve

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*Canada Spurns Kyoto in Favour of Tar Sands
By Stephen Leahy

*BONN, Jun 13, 2011 (IPS) - Canada was roundly criticised by other 
nations at a major U.N. climate meeting last week after being caught 
underreporting carbon emissions from its tar sands oil production 
facilities, one of the country's biggest and fastest growing sources of 
global warming gases.*

But even the "full emissions" data that Canada finally released 
represents only about half of the actual emissions, according to a new 
report.

"Small oil sands companies are not required to report their emissions. 
And oil-refining emissions are not included in tar sands emissions," 
said independent Canadian researcher Michelle Mech. *

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56048


Reducing Soot and Smog Would Help Stabilise Climate
By Stephen Leahy

*BONN, Jun 14, 2011 (IPS) - Clean the air, cool the planet and prevent 
millions of deaths with fast action on soot and smog, a new report urges.*

Air pollutants like black carbon (soot) and ground-level ozone (smog) 
arise from incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass like wood 
and charcoal.

Nations or regional blocks of nations could decide to put measures into 
place that quickly improve their air quality, reduce crop losses and 
shorten lives. And, almost as a side benefit, those efforts would do 
much to slow the rate of global warming, says the scientific assessment 
report 
<http://www.unep.org/dewa/Portals/67/pdf/Black_Carbon.pdf> released at 
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC 
<http://unfccc.int/2860.php>) negotiating session here in Bonn.

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56064
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