Tuesday, December 8, 2009

And the prize goes to Ukraine, Ukraine and Ukraine))

Ukraine has won "fossil of the day" today - one could say "privatised" the whole prize - occupying both the first and third places on the pedestal and also being somewhat attached to the second one as part of the Umbrella Group.
Fossil of the Day is a mock award given by NGOs (every day during COP-15) to a country or countries doing the most to obstruct progress in the global climate talks, for their lack of ambition to cut carbon emissions.
As a Ukrainian, I feel like I'm buying the third place/blame/shame - this year we've sold our carbon emissions quota under Kyoto Protocol till 2012 to Japan for USD 300 million and nobody knows where that money went/goes/will be going)) (Should be directed for JI projects.) But I'm quite ambivalent on the first one - we're blamed of selling "hot air" and having an emissions reduction target of 20% compared to 1990 level, while our emissions since then have fallen by over 40% due to decline of industry after collapse of Soviet Union. Yes, we probably should be more ambitious and proactive on implementing cleaner production technologies but we want to give green light to our industry to revive. It is not 100% fair to punish us for the collapse we faced in the 1990s..
May be, somebody else should write this post instead of me.. But that's how I feel.

P.S. Yes, Umbrella Group took a second place for subsidies to oil and gas industries.
P.P.S. By the way, they're holding Ukrainian flag upside down))

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