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Anyone remember this being in the final Copenhagen text? No, didn’t think so. It’s with these unilateral moves that the mask slips further, and these tyrants show us their true nature. And by the vehicle of the EU no less: a sovereignty-destroying, anti-democratic pact into which the citizens of most European countries were shamelessly strong-armed, if they were given a choice at all. A nascent regional super-state with plans to expand the powers of its police force on the global stage and to shackle its own citizens in a high tech police state panopticon. This is the seat of the Ancien Régime, and a model for the world it is not.

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James Kirkup, Louise Grey, The Telegraph
December 20, 2009

The plan emerged from the chaotic Copenhagen conference on climate change, which ended in acrimony and mistrust between world leaders.

The summit was unable to reach a substantive deal on cutting greenhouse gases because of a row over how countries would prove that they are honouring promises to cut their carbon emissions. China in particular objected to any external monitoring of its actions.

Mr Brown and French President Nicholas Sarkozy now are working proposals for a “European monitoring organisation” that will oversee every country’s actions on emissions.

The plan emerged after US President Barack Obama suggested that monitoring could be done using spy satellites. [Ed. Note: How good of them.]

Mr Brown revealed the plan in the early hours of Saturday morning, shortly before leaving Copenhagen.

He said: “I will work with President Sarkozy for a European organisation that will monitor the transparency that is being achieved not just in Europe and our own countries, but in every country around the world.

He added: “We’re in favour of transparency; we’re in favour of looking at what’s happening not just in our country and our own continent, but around the world.

“I think people deserve for there to be international reporting at the highest standards of what is being done.”

The prospect of EU monitoring may further antagonise China, but Western leaders have not hesitated to blame Beijing for the summit’s failure to agree to global emissions cuts of 50 per cent by 2050, or the decision not to make the Copenhagen accord legally binding.

Ed Miliband, the climate change secretary, said on Sunday the conclusion of the summit was “disappointing” and openly blamed Beijing.

He said: “If leading countries hold out against something like ‘legally binding’ or against the 2050 target of 50 per cent reductions in carbon emissions – which was held out against by countries like China – you are not going to get the agreement you want.”

Meanwhile, environmentalists warned that a deal to save the world’s forests has been postponed after world leaders failed to reach agreement in Copenhagen.

It was widely expected a scheme to stop deforestation would be a central part of any international deal to stop global warming.

However, although the Copenhagen Accord acknowledged the need to stop chopping down trees, the agreement is too weak to force countries to take action.

Tony Juniper, special adviser to The Prince’s Rainforests Project (PRP), said the deal thrashed out by world leaders in the early hours of Saturday morning was a “huge disappointment”.

“It is delaying the moment when we take decisive action to deal with what is regarded as the gravest threat to human wellbeing,” he said.

Felling trees is responsible for nearly a fifth of all the carbon dioxide produced by mankind every year. Environmental groups have been trying to introduce measures to reduce deforestation included in some form of international treaty for decades.

The scheme, known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation Degradation (REDD), offers money to poor nations to help them protect forests. The money is used to provide alternative incomes to poor people who rely on forests for firewood and to help set up monitoring systems to stop illegal logging. Deforestation will be monitored overall by satellite images that show if trees are being chopped down. [Ed. Note: Incidentally, this scheme has been criticized as one that will make it impossible for aboriginal peoples of many countries to utilize their natural resources at all - that of course, will be seen to by the kindly multinationals and the likes of the World Bank.]

At Copenhagen the scheme was widely supported. However there is no legal commitment on nations to implement the scheme until it is made part of a legally-binding treaty.

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