WIKILEAKS cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord...
Embassy dispatches show America used spying, threats and promises of aid to get support for Copenhagen accord
"Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage.
The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid is used by countries to gain political backing; how distrust, broken promises and creative accounting dog negotiations; and how the US mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the controversial "Copenhagen accord", the unofficial document that emerged from the ruins of the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009.
Negotiating a climate treaty is a high-stakes game... because re-engineering the global economy to a low-carbon model will see the flow of billions of dollars redirected."
Edited by Rogerdodger, 04 December 2010 - 04:11 PM.
