United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) Talk Show!

Hi! Welcome to Andrew's United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) Talk show! (Yes, I know it's a bit late, but global warming is an issue that should be discussed at all times! Plus, I saw info regarding this on a T.V. talk show...heh heh...)

So, first off, we need to know some key facts: the COP15 is a meeting attended by all the countries in the UN, and this meeting is largely pointed at the biggest polluters in the world: China, India, Brazil, South Africa and the U.S.!

Now, the entire summit was about 12 days of meetings when it's more like world leaders in a giant room arguing in each other's faces fighting for what's best for their countries instead of the environment like little kids in a playroom fighting over toys!

The most shameful country at this summit is none other than our home country: Canada! Who, if you would, is the kid who was sitting back while his big brothers fight, but the one who would eventually get picked on ! The above was done by our Prime Minister Stephen Harper and our Environment Minister Jim Prentice making little commitments and rarely scheduled to go on in the meetings. So, in the end, their behaviour made us get the fossil award: the award to the country with the least commitment to Global Warming.

Not so fast to think that Canada had completely failed! In fact, in my opinion, it didn't fail as badly as it looked at all! The fail is just about to happen…

At this point, it’s pretty much China VS U.S. in an Epic showdown! With the U.S. President Barack Obama demanding China to make a commitment and he was going to throw in $10 million U.S. as a contribution to help China reduce pollution. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was happy with this until the U.S. wanted to regularly check on their status and how they are spending the $10 million, where he said that it was unacceptable for it’s a foreign intrusion! Barack Obama then countered saying that if we don’t regularly check, then it’s hollow victory!

In fact, it was so intense and epic, some Chinese guy made fun of this argument between them and joked: (Translation) "China cannot let the U.S. into our country and look at how we are spending the money! How we spend it is our business! Heck, half of the time, we don’t even know where we spend the money! So how can we tell you something that even we don’t know!? Besides, we loan the U.S. tons of money! Can you tell me where you are spending it all? Hmm…?"

So it’s like this back and forth with no winner until it was announced that they have reached a "meaningful agreement", whatever that means, but before we start to figure out the meaning of this meaningful agreement, we have to turn our attention to the fact that none of these "agreements" are legally binding! Meaning that none of the countries have to do what they had said! Now should be the time for Pres. Obama to say that this is a hollow victory, but then again, he already left for America!

What has just happened was not the worst of all, there is even more to it! Like how the press from all over the world is pinning the failure of this conference on 2 victims:
1. The developed countries for demanding too much from developing countries.
2. The developing countries for thinking about their countries’ growth before the environment

Who’s to blame? I honestly don’t know! Whatever you choose is your opinion!

Now, onto the biggest and last fail! Now that the climate summit is over, statistics say that the amount of CO2 produced in the 12 day conference matches the amount of CO2 that Norway pollutes per year! FAIL! Talk about the supposedly green conference not being green!

Well, that’s all from Andrew’s COP15 Talk Show! Hoped you like it and tune in next time at some point in the near future! Thank You! Good Night!