Lead, follow, or get out of the way : Prenez la tête, suivez ou bien ôtez-vous du chemin!

Delegate from Tuvalu during the Bali Conference 4 Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way Overview Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way In 2007, the world became more aware than Perhaps the most striking example of this is the ever that we live in the climate century. [...] Climate Action Plan launched the work of a group change was at the top of the agenda of several called the Ad-hoc Working Group on Long- international summits, including the G8 term Cooperative Action, which commits meeting, the Commonwealth meeting, and the developed countries to consider “measurable, unprecedented heads of state meeting specific reportable, verifiable” commitments and to climate [...] Canada The first commitment period of the Kyoto must pledge to make best efforts to meet its Protocol officially began on January 1st 2008 Kyoto targets, and as a party to the Protocol, and while countries with targets under Kyoto must adhere to the compliance rules which are actively responding to the concern of their include a penalty of thirty percent in the second electorate by implementing po [...] The economic impacts of making announced its Regulatory Framework for Air the transition to a low-emission future will be Emissions which committed the government to minimal but to get there, the price for carbon reducing the so-called “intensity” of Canada’s emissions must be set much higher than the $15 greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 per tonne proposed by the federal government relative [...] The benefits of prompt One of the explanations that the Canadian action to reduce emissions public has heard in the past for a lack of action on climate change is that it would negatively far outweigh the costs; the affect the economy, but this is clearly refuted by earlier the action is taken the efforts of the European Union and countries like Germany.