UN CLIMATE TALKS COULD FAIL, EU MINISTERS WARN

EU STATES VOW TO STEP UP CLIMATE DIPLOMACY
TO REACH GLOBAL CLIMATE AGREEMENT IN DECEMBER

COPENHAGEN (AFP) - European ministers warned that December's landmark UN climate talks could fail, as the EU Commission urged rich nations Thursday to stump up tens of billions of euros to help the developing world combat global warming. The December 7-18 talks in Copenhagen, under the 192-nation UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), aim to craft a post-2012 pact for curbing the heat-trapping gases that drive perilous global warming. Britain, France, Denmark, Sweden and Finland agreed Thursday to intensify "green diplomacy" to rescue an ambitious global climate agreement in Copenhagen in December.

Differences between rich and poor countries over funds for dealing with the consequences of climate change have emerged as the main stumbling block to a new U.N. climate treaty which world leaders hope to agree in Copenhagen in December. Copenhagen would be judged as a success if there is the willingness from rich countries to help poorer ones deal with the effects of global warming. The European Commission in Brussels proposed that richer nations provide tens of billions of euros in global aid annually for poor nations to fight global warming. Developed nations acknowledge the need to help out their poor neighbours but are unwilling to write any blank cheques. And developing nations say that the rich, which have burned most fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution, should promise deeper cuts of 40 percent or more below 1990 levels by 2020 to avert the worst of climate change. Poorer countries say cutting greenhouse gases will hamper economic growth and that richer countries should offer greater emissions cuts of their own.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

The Vedic wisdom guides us to understanding our relation with the Supreme Lord Śrī Krishna and to acting accordingly in order to achieve the desired result of returning home, back to Godhead. But materialistic men do not understand this. They want to make a plan to become happy in a place where there is no happiness.

Srila A.C. BV Swami Prabhupada:
"El Srimad Bhagavatam - Comentario en Canto 2 - Cap. 2 - Verso 27"

We do not know that we are bound by the stringent laws of material nature. How can we become free from this material bondage? We have to take instruction from those who are not blind, whose eyes are opened and who are liberated from this material bondage. Otherwise, if one who is blind takes instruction from a blind man, it will not be possible for him to be liberated from material bondage.

Srila A.C. BV Swami Prabhupada:
"Krishna Consciousness the Topmost Yoga System - Chapter 3: Beyond the Laws of Nature"