The climate agreement finalised in Bali today has been stripped of the emission reduction targets that science and humanity demands, Greenpeace said today.
In the face of unprecedented and open criticism on the floor of the UN, the US was forced to back down from causing complete collapse of the meeting.
Nevertheless, the Bush Administration's underhand tactics have left the Bali Mandate omitting any reference to the crucial cuts required to stop climate change and relegated the science to a footnote.
"The Bush Administration has unscrupulously taken a monkey wrench to the level of action on climate change that the science demands," said Gerd Leipold, Executive Director of Greenpeace International. "They've relegated the science to a footnote."
In a year when the Nobel prize-winning IPCC clearly laid out the unacceptable impacts of unchecked climate change, this week also saw the news that the Arctic could see ice-free summers within five to six years, and scientists said 2007 was the seventh hottest year in history.
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