“Copenhagen, for me, is a very clear deadline that I think we need to meet, and I am afraid that if we don’t, then the process will begin to slip, and […] one deadline after the other will not be met, and we sort of become the little orchestra on the Titanic.”
– CØP15 orchestrator Yvo de Boer, December 2008, speaking to George Monbiot
Where are Earth’s resources coming from, and where are they going?
(1) Russia and former Soviet states (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazahstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan):
(2) Middle East (Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Bahrain and Lebanon):
(3) Balkan area – Southeast Europe (includes Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, FYR Macedonia and Turkey):
(4) South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Pakistan):
(5) East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea):
(6) Africa:
… is about to begin
{Turley, C., Blackford, J., Widdicombe, S., Lowe, D., Nightingale, P.D. and A.P. Rees, A.P., (2006), ‘Reviewing the impact of increased atmospheric CO2 on oceanic pH and the marine ecosystem’. In: Schellnhuber, H J., Cramer,W., Nakicenovic, N., Wigley, T. and Yohe, G (Eds), Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 8, p. 65-70}
A new report by {Wheeler, B. (June 2009), Proceedings of the Royal Society B} exposes ‘R.R.D.A.’ amongst capuchin monkeys in Iguazá National Park, Argentina. The deceitful lil’ buggers proffer two-syllable cooing sounds, normally uttered in response to danger, for “no apparent reason […] other than to chase the other individuals off the food platform”.
