Over the years I have observed the effects or the lack of it that these COP conventions has on the outcome of our climate changes and i am beginning to feel ike it is just another waste of time and money.
My contribution towards the convention was in the form of News Paper cuttings, a years worth from the Japan Times on anything and everything that had to do with the environmental issues of the day.
1997, at the Conference of Parties III (COP3), Kyoto, Japan, the Kyoto conference on climate change took place. There, developed countries agreed to specific targets for cutting their emissions of greenhouse gases. A general framework was defined for this, with specifics to be detailed over the next few years. This became known as the Kyoto Protocol.
Here is an interestying article from a blogger i stumbled upon looking for the latest on the subject of COP3.
December 02, 2008
20 new blogs created during COP3: not one of them survived. Why?
Only if you really want to communicate. Not one of those 20 new blogs "survived". Why? Because the people they were created for did not really want to communicate that way (or any other way for most of them). Most probably did not have the writing skills nor any intent to give it a try. As the "donors" and funding organizations did not blog nor insist on their grantees to blog, they had zero incentive. Three years later (this part of the post is written in June 2011) the situation has not changed: tobacco control advocates in Africa don't blog and nobody cares. The result: no communication where an active network of bloggers would have produced an abundance of original and useful content for a very small fraction of the millions that have been largely wasted.
The US proposed to just stabilize emissions and not cut them at all, while the European Union called for a 15% cut. In the end, there was a trade off, and industrialized countries were committed to an overall reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases to 5.2% below 1990 levels for the period 2008 - 2012. (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in its 1990 report that a 60% reduction in emissions was needed...)
The newspaper cuttings were later taken and displayed inside the convention centre by an NGO group from Washington DC. My effort did not go wasted after all and i did not have to hang around the centre instead I explored Kyoto.
Old man and young boy writing for different purposeses but each doing their thing.
Back home our friend Masaharu Tsubaki dropped in for a visit as he always did whenever in the Sendai area, he lived in Saitama near Tokyo. He was quite a character always active and i called him Genki Man, full of vigour.
My artist friend from Saitama, Amemia San who doeas great paper cuts artworks.
Amemia San did my portrait, i look more japanese than Malaysia.
20 new blogs created during COP3: not one of them survived. Why?
Only if you really want to communicate. Not one of those 20 new blogs "survived". Why? Because the people they were created for did not really want to communicate that way (or any other way for most of them). Most probably did not have the writing skills nor any intent to give it a try. As the "donors" and funding organizations did not blog nor insist on their grantees to blog, they had zero incentive. Three years later (this part of the post is written in June 2011) the situation has not changed: tobacco control advocates in Africa don't blog and nobody cares. The result: no communication where an active network of bloggers would have produced an abundance of original and useful content for a very small fraction of the millions that have been largely wasted.
The US proposed to just stabilize emissions and not cut them at all, while the European Union called for a 15% cut. In the end, there was a trade off, and industrialized countries were committed to an overall reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases to 5.2% below 1990 levels for the period 2008 - 2012. (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in its 1990 report that a 60% reduction in emissions was needed...)
The newspaper cuttings were later taken and displayed inside the convention centre by an NGO group from Washington DC. My effort did not go wasted after all and i did not have to hang around the centre instead I explored Kyoto.
Old man and young boy writing for different purposeses but each doing their thing.
Back home our friend Masaharu Tsubaki dropped in for a visit as he always did whenever in the Sendai area, he lived in Saitama near Tokyo. He was quite a character always active and i called him Genki Man, full of vigour.
My artist friend from Saitama, Amemia San who doeas great paper cuts artworks.
Amemia San did my portrait, i look more japanese than Malaysia.
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