{"id":33145,"date":"2011-12-13T03:57:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T03:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=33145"},"modified":"2011-12-13T03:57:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T03:57:34","slug":"durban-climate-talks-ending-polluters-won-people-lost-greenpeace-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=33145","title":{"rendered":"Durban climate talks ending: Polluters won, people lost (Greenpeace Africa)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">DURBAN, South-Africa,\u00a0December 11, 2011\/African Press Organization (APO)\/\u00a0<strong>&#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>On the closing of the latest round of UN climate talks in Durban Greenpeace today declared that it was clear that our Governments this past two weeks listened to the carbon-intensive polluting corporations instead of listening to the people who want an end to our dependence on fossil fuels and real and immediate action on climate change.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u201cThe grim news is that the blockers lead by the US have succeeded in inserting a vital get-out clause that could easily prevent the next big climate deal being legally binding. If that loophole is exploited it could be a disaster.\u00a0 And the deal is due to be implemented &#8216;from 2020&#8217; leaving almost no room for increasing the depth of carbon cuts in this decade when scientists say we need emissions to peak,&#8221; said Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace International Executive Director.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u201cRight now the global climate regime amounts to nothing more than a voluntary deal that\u2019s put off for a decade. This could take us over the two degree threshold where we pass from danger to potential catastrophe.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">&#8220;Our atmosphere has been loaded with a carbon debt and the bill, carrying a Durban postmark, has been posted to the world\u2019s poorest countries especially here in Africa. The chance of averting catastrophic climate change is slipping through our hands with every passing year that nations fail to agree on a rescue plan for the planet.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">According to Greenpeace Africa the South Africa, as host of the COP 17 tried to ensure a meaningful deal.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u201cThe type of deal that has been reached has been strongly influenced by the blockers led by US\u201d, said Ferrial Adam, Climate and Energy Campaigner for Greenpeace Africa.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><em>Distributed by the African Press Organization for Greenpeace Africa.<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DURBAN, South-Africa,\u00a0December 11, 2011\/African Press Organization (APO)\/\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0On the closing of the latest round of UN climate talks in Durban Greenpeace today declared that it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[751,1],"tags":[11040,11041],"class_list":["post-33145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news","category-uncategorized","tag-climnate-change","tag-greenpeace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}