Reply #67: a bit after the fact though

[G_j]

Unfortunately, most Americans hadn't the slightest idea the conference was even happening, so there was no opportunity to lobby for change etc. The meeting began on November 28. The CNN links are from Dec 9, the last day.
Kudos to Clinton for drawing some attention to the conference.

Leading up to the meeting this was obviously not considered an important story in the US.
Then there is the story reported in the UK: "How America Plotted to Stop Kyoto Deal" (below)

--------

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7001184261

UN to Hold Largest Climate Conference Ever

November 25, 2005 12:30 p.m. EST

Ayinde O. Chase - All Headline News Staff Writer

Bonn, Germany (AHN) – The United Nations is hosting a Climate Change Conference beginning November 28 through December 9 in Montreal, Canada. The conference is expected to gather between 8,000 and 10,000 government delegates, business and civic leaders and environmental activists.

The assembly will be the largest meeting of its kind since the Kyoto Climate Conference in 1997.

"This meeting will not only be one of the largest climate change conferences ever, it will deliver a range of substantive results", says Richard Kinley, acting head of the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat in Bonn, Germany.

Parties are expected to agree on steps to strengthen the clean development mechanism, a tool designed under the Protocol to support sustainable development projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries. The United Nations Climate Change Secretariat will be showcasing such projects at the conference.

..more..
-----

---------------------------

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1208-03.htm
Published on Thursday, December 8, 2005 by the Independent / UK

How America Plotted to Stop Kyoto Deal

by Andrew Buncombe

A detailed and disturbing strategy document has revealed an extraordinary American plan to destroy Europe's support for the Kyoto treaty on climate change.

The ambitious, behind-the-scenes plan was passed to The Independent this week, just as 189 countries are painfully trying to agree the second stage of Kyoto at the UN climate conference in Montreal. It was pitched to companies such as Ford Europe, Lufthansa and the German utility giant RWE.

Put together by a lobbyist who is a senior official at a group partly funded by ExxonMobil, the world's biggest oil company and a fierce opponent of anti-global warming measures, the plan seeks to draw together major international companies, academics, think-tanks, commentators, journalists and lobbyists from across Europe into a powerful grouping to destroy further EU support for the treaty.

It details just how the so-called "European Sound Climate Policy Coalition" would work. Based in Brussels, the plan would have anti-Kyoto position papers, expert spokesmen, detailed advice and networking instantly available to any politician or company who wanted to question the wisdom of proceeding with Kyoto and its demanding cuts in carbon dioxide emissions.

..more..