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Killing the golden goose: of tar sands and Kyoto
Hillary Clinton is en route for the first United States diplomatic mission to Burma in 50 years. Texan congressmen advocate offering olive branches to Iran. The age of the isolated pariah state has passed. Or has it? Within international climate change circles at least, Canada seems most keen to make a name for itself – no longer simply as an uncooperative party to climate change discussions, but as an increasingly trenchant obstructer to a range of social and environmentally inclined international negotiations.
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Posted by RECOFTC on December 1, 2011
http://recoftc.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/killing-the-golden-goose-of-tar-sands-and-kyoto/