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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] U.S. takes daft position on agriculture at climate talks 0
  • Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:33:27 -0700


U.S. takes daft position on agriculture at climate talks 0
http://www.grist.org/article/us-takes-daft-position-on-agriculture-at-climate-talks/
* Tom Laskawy
11 Dec 2009 12:45 PM

Things are not looking good on the agriculture front at the Copenhagen
climate talks. According to a representative from the Institute for
Agriculture and Trade Policy, a group dedicated to sustainable agriculture
and trade policy, American negotiators are being, um, less than productive:

Long, long meeting this afternoon (Dec. 10) on sectoral language for
agriculture. First of all, there is confusion as to what the text will end up
being—part of a comprehensive Copenhagen agreement? A separate COP decision?
Something else still? Everything seems pretty much up in the air on this
topic as different countries hold very different views on this matter.

And then there is the U.S. position. Arguing that the language on
agriculture needs to be short and very specific, and that it should avoid any
mention of food security, or of linkages between mitigation and adaptation.
Hard to believe. How does the U.S. government expect this to be acceptable to
developing countries where agriculture is a source of livelihoods for large
shares of their populations? And, more broadly, to all stakeholders involved
in discussions about agriculture, food and climate change? It has become
widely accepted that Copenhagen needs to open a space to deal with
agriculture and food security concerns associated with climate change—the
U.S. cannot be serious!

We are Very Serious. Unfortunately, we are also very misguided.




  • [Livingontheland] U.S. takes daft position on agriculture at climate talks 0, Tradingpost, 12/11/2009

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