Obama Gives China a Free Pass to Emit CO2

By Howard Richman &Raymond Richman,American Thinker

Obama submits to the Chinese

The U.N. Climate Control Conference in Copenhagen ended in failure in that no binding agreement was reached to reduce CO2 emissions. China nixed the agreement by refusing to compromise on the issue of international verification as noted by a British newspaper called The Independent:

When the [U.S.] President,in an unyielding speech,said that without international verification “any agreement would be empty words on a page”,that was too much for [Chinese Premier] Mr Wen. He left the conference in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre,returned to his hotel in the city,and responded with a direct snub of his own –he sent low-level delegates to take his place in the talks.

At the end of the conference,President Obama and leaders of India,Brazil,South Africa,and China negotiated a possible framework for the next conference. In order to be seen as effective,Obama caved in to the demands of the developing countries,which produced the “Copenhagen Accord.”

India,Brazil,and South Africa got the reparations they wanted. The developed countries (the U.S.,Europe,Japan,etc.) would pay $30 billion by 2012,and $100 billion per year starting in 2020 (U.S. share $10 billion by 2012,about $33 billion per year by 2020),into a fund to be distributed to the developing countries based upon need. The accord states:

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