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• The road from Copenhagen | Ed Miliband | Comment is free | The Guardian

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 128
  Stop this scaremongering! We got enough problems of our own to worry about yours! We did not get an agreement on 50% reductions in global emissions by 2050 or on 80% reductions by developed countries. Both were vetoed by China, despite the support of a coalition of developed and the vast majority of developing ...
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• Climate change – ‘Time for Plan B’ says Nigel Lawson

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 128
  For many bureaucrats and NGOs, it is the junkets ... The world’s political leaders, not least President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown, are in a state of severe, almost clinical, denial. While acknowledging that the outcome of the United Nations climate-change conference in Copenhagen fell short of ...
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• Power Begets Gold, then Gold Begets Power

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 525
  The financial world is slowing down. Analysts...economists...and blabbermouths are getting ready for the holidays. The news flow is quieting. The noise is abating. So, lets talk about gold. But first...a note about the little train that couldnt. The Eurostar connects London and Paris. Last Friday, several trains ...
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• We can challenge India on Copenhagen goals: US – Global Warming – Environment – Home – The Times of India

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 128
  We know how this place got so dirty White House senior advisor David Axelrod told CNN that the Copenhagen Accord would allow US verification. “Now China and India have set goals. We are going to be able to review what they are doing. We are going to be able to challenge them if they do not meet those goals,” ...
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• Copenhagen Talks End With Agreement, But No Binding Deal – AlterNet

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 128
  Too much money ... creating too much of maya Environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben of 350.org voiced his disapproval. (and) summarized what Obama accomplished: He formed a league of super-polluters, and would-be super-polluters. China, the U.S., and India don’t want anyone controlling their use of ...
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• Amartya Sen at the Aspen Institute India’s Conference in New Delhi – WSJ.com

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 128
  This is what we are talking about ... India’s approach should have been to push for what it considered to be a “fairer, juster deal” on climate change that all parties can agree to — and if that means mandatory cuts, then so be it. “To say under no circumstances will we accept mandatory restraints is ...
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• For First Time Ever PIIGS Fly Higher Than BRICs

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 739
  For the first time ever, the combined risk of the PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) is greater than that of the developing BRICs. China is now well on its way to global domination and risk-haven status. Renminbi reserve currency anyone? h/t CreditTrader
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• India, China, Brazil walk out – Copenhagen dead

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 128
  In a development that took almost all observers by surprise, India, China, and Brazil walked out the plenary session of the climate summit at Copenhagen, making it certain that the summit will end in abject failure. (via domain-b.com : Copenhagen dead as India, China, Brazil walk out ). Pollutor cleans – not ...
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• LatAm Bloc and GCC initiatives to end dollar monopoly

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 128
  nine Latin American nations said Saturday they plan to use a new currency dubbed the ‘’sucre” for trade among themselves starting in January. No sucres will be printed or coined, but the virtual currency will be used to manage debts between governments while reducing reliance on the U.S. dollar and on ...
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• 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit News 12/16/09 – Slow Movement, Clinton, Kerry & Science Updates

  
  Weatherdem's Weblog — Authority: 122
  China and the U.S. continue to have a moderate level of disagreement on issues related to verification, namely “measurable, reportable, and verifiable” or MRV as the parlance has developed.  China says it isn’t opposed to MRV for actions that receive international financing, technology or capacity building ...
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• You cant cheat a honest man – Carbon credits are a Rs 28,000-cr ‘opportunity’

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 128
  For the rich, by the rich, to the rich The Indian government has approved more than 1,400 projects as part of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) that could attract around $6 billion(Rs 28,000 crore) into the country by 2012 through sale of Certified Emission Reduction (CER) certificates, according to Environment ...
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• What worries the BRICs

  
  MacroScope — Authority: 120
  Some fascinating data about the growing power of emerging markets, particularly the BRICs, was on display at the OECD s annual investment conference in Paris this week. Not the least of it came from MIGA, the World Banks Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, which tries to help protect foreign direct investors ...
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• What worries the BRICs

  
  Global Investing — Authority: 118
  Some fascinating data about the growing power of emerging markets, particularly the BRICs, was on display at the OECD ’s annual investment conference in Paris this week. Not the least of it came from MIGA, the World Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, which tries to help protect foreign direct ...
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• Climate Change at Copenhagen – Britain mounts a Trojan operation

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 128
  The Europeans, especially the UK, have been at the forefront of diplomatic maneuvers to carve out a separate voice of small vulnerable countries such as Bangladesh and Maldives which would, in the name of strong global action, put pressure on India and China to take commitments. The UK government had recently ...
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• PR Stunts – The Maldives underwater meeting

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 128
  The science of global warming Maldivian officials said the idea to hold the attention-grabbing underwater cabinet meeting came from President Mohamed Nasheed when he was asked by an activist group to support its “environmental day” action on October 24. “The 350.org group asked if the Maldives can hold an ...
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• Daily Credit Summary: December 8 - Greeced Darkening

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 739
  Commentary compliments of www.creditresearch.com Spreads ended the day mixed in the US today with very low intraday ranges and only marginal moves as HY just outperformed IG. Breadth was modestly negative as TMT and CONSumer names underperformed. We note that credit has outperformed equity in the last couple of ...
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• Climate head steps down over e-mail leak

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 128
  Professor Phil Jones, director of the U.K.’s University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit said he stands by the science produced at the center but while the investigation takes place it was important that the CRU “continues its world leading research with as little interruption and diversion as ...
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• Why We Care About Honduras: Three Powers Compared

  
  Latin America — Authority: 112
  Andres Oppenheimer of the Miami Herald wrote an intriguing piece recently on the splash effect of the coup, or crisis, or whatever term least offends someone of Honduras’ new leadership and recent election, and how the major powers in Latin America have tried unsuccessfully to remedy the situation. Oppenheimer ...
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• It’s Hard to Disguise Real Strength

  
  Latin America — Authority: 112
  Long thought to be a volatile, potentially destructive force in liberalizing economies, capital flows are curtailed through a variety of taxes, limits or deposit requirements. Such capital controls serve as a kink, allowing policymakers a freer hand to manage their economies. Brazil recently initiated one such ...
  3 weeks ago

• Time to kick Russia out of the BRICs?

  
  Global Investing — Authority: 118
  It may end up sounding like a famous ball-point pen maker , but an argument is being made that Goldman Sach’s famous marketing device, the BRICs, should really be the BICs. Does Russia really deserve to be a BRIC, asks Anders Åslund, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics , in an ...
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