The Greenpeace international team have been taking action all over the world to try to build pressure around the crucial G8 meeting and Major Economies Forum (MEF) in Italy.
The statement that just came out of the MEF is little more than hot air, with no mid-term emission reduction targets and no money on the table for developing countries. They are making some of the right noised but taking all of the wrong actions – and committing to nothing.
Kevin Rudd used the meeting to try to re-launch of the Carbon Capture and Storage Institute that he had already launched at least once before. Nothing new. Not even any new ideas. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is 19th century thinking masquerading as innovation. It represents a complete failure of the imagination and an inability to see beyond the quarry economy of the industrial revolution.
We’re in trouble with this lot in charge. We have 6 months to get a good treaty out of the Copenhagen meeting and it is clear that Rudd and other leaders and going to have to come under a lot more pressure between now and then.
