Deal or No Deal

GOLD! Now this is more like it!

From Rising Tide North America - gets the message across, but in an accessible way, with some mickey-taking thrown in!

Excerpts from 'Deal or No Deal':

'Dogged history of Conference of Parties process

The Recipe:

- Take one hefty acronym: UNFCCC – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (convention not as in badges or stamps or Star Trek, but as in big-ass meeting)

- Mix with one ubiquitous title: The Kyoto Protocol (Kyoto, as in is the coolest-sounding city in Japan, Protocol as in souped-up Rules)

Instructions:

- Line up the players: nation state governments, presenting themselves as representative of peoples across the world

- Set up the bargaining table and give each nation equal bargaining power

- Ignore the differentiated access each team has to staff, expenses and resources

- Leave the Liberian delegates outside Poland waiting for visas in December 2008

- Have a voluntary Treaty only to guide domestic carbon emission reduction targets

- Make the Kyoto Protocol binding because it involves market-based mechanisms, which are great for economic growth

Tips for Stirring:

- Use a soft angle on the climate science – why accept climate scientists advice that we need to get below 350 greenhouse gas parts per million when 450ppm is easier to swallow over an opulent buffet breakfast?

Don’t believe the hype.

We need to act together rather than believe the atomizing guilt-hype of ‘individual responsibility’. It is collective action on the systemic causes of climate change - not a few energy saving lightbulbs - that will bring us a better world.

Do keep breathing.
Look after each other and party whenever there’s a chance.'


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