For my WikiLeak article on Wednesday, March 28th, I read a letter received by the U.S. ambassador in Spain, Ambassador Solomont, from the Spanish Secretary of State and Vice Minister for Climate Change Teresa Ribera. This letter, on behalf of the EU, requests consultations with the U.S. government regarding climate change at the ministerial level. In particular, the letter written by Ribera portrays the shared sentiment in the EU for the need to continue international dialogue on climate change after the Copenhaguen Accord. The Copenhaguen Accod is a document ratified at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which endorses the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol (an initial protocol aimed at fighting global warming ratified by the UNFCCC). The UNFCCC is an international environmental treaty that pursues the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to mitigate the current global warming crisis.
Questions to be discussed in class were:
1) Should a country be required to impose stricter regulations on their industries and factories if they are unintentionally destroying the atmosphere of a country "downwind" of them?
2) Who's responsibility is it to save the Earth's atmosphere? Can anything really be done if every single person in the entire world doesn't commit to this cause?
http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2010/02/10MADRID202.html#
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