The is truly a madness with these folks.  This should have been the 
conference named "How can we find a way to steal from the rich countries 
more slowly ?"


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Davos leaders, CEOs debate climate change moves
Debate at World Economic Forum focuses on tackling climate change 
without breaking the bank

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- Fighting global warming and protecting the 
environment dominated the discussions Friday at the World Economic 
Forum, a month after U.N. climate change talks ended without a binding 
deal on curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon, whose country is holding the next 
U.N. climate conference at the end of the year, was laying out his ideas 
in a session exploring what is next for climate talks. Renault-Nissan 
head Carlos Ghosn, who has championed electric cars, was also on hand.

Also Friday, Microsoft founder Bill Gates was speaking about how to 
better target global development aid and was expected to announce new 
funding to bring vaccines to poor countries.

Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, 
told The Associated Press that recent scandals over climate data have 
not discredited the view that global warming exists and must be 
countered.

"What's happened, it's unfortunate, it's bad, it's wrong, but I don't 
think it has damaged the basic science," he said.

Global warming skeptics have been reinvigorated since a U.N. report 
warning that Himalayan glaciers could be gone by 2035 turned out to be 
off by hundreds of years because of a typo -- the actual year was 2350 -- 
and by stolen e-mails from the University of East Anglia's climate 
science unit.

"Concluding that the Himalayan glaciers are going to disappear later is 
like being happy about the fact that the Titanic is sinking more slowly 
than we had originally feared, even though it's still going to sink," de 
Boer said.

De Boer said he was "depressed" after the climate talks in Copenhagen 
failed to produce a binding accord to cut global carbon emissions and 
pay poor countries to deal with higher sea levels. But he said it was 
"feasible" to get all countries on board for an accord in Mexico by the 
end of 2010.

A key part of the debate, however, is how progress can be made that is 
not just environmentally effective but also won't break the bank.

De Boer insisted that climate change was not "off the agenda" of the 
world after the failure of Copenhagen. He expressed confidence that the 
business leaders at Davos, who are starting to enjoy an economic 
recovery after a rough couple of years, would invest anew in renewable 
energy.

"Energy sector investments that were put on hold because of the crisis 
are beginning to be made again and I think people will take future 
climate change policy into account," he said.

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