GREENPEACE FINAL STATEMENT AT THE CLOSURE OF THE UNFCCC COP6,
The Hague, 25 NOVEMBER 2000:
This meeting will be remembered as the moment when governments
abandoned the promise of global co-operation to protect planet
Earth.
Nearly ten years after the Rio Earth Summit, and three years
after Kyoto, The Hague represents a U-turn. Rather than reducing
emissions to curb global warming, greenhouse gas pollution limits
will in fact be increased.
If governments continue to act irresponsibly, as they have done
this week, then people from rich countries should prepare to
build ever higher and wider dikes, from which they can watch the
rest of the world suffer and drown from climate change. Either
that or demand that politicians give them access to the solutions
to climate change in the form of clean energy and energy
efficiency.
Governments must stop acting as if this was a game. Climate
change is happening, and more and more people will be the
victims. Once again, the US has been successful with their
favourite negotiating trick: in Kyoto they brought everyone down
to the lowest common denominator; and now in The Hague they have
moved away, leaving everyone else at the bottom.
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John Passacantando (USA) +31 6 12308875
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Juan Carlos Villalonga (Spanish) +31 625031005
Karsten Smid (German) +49 171 8780821
Truls Gulowsen (Swedish/Norwegian) +47 90107904
Remi Parmentier (French/Spanish) +31 653504702
Media office: Susan Cavanagh +31 6 21296910 or Jon Walter +31
653504731, www.greenpeace.org
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