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...Many officials would like Sarkozy to concentrate instead on issues like shepherding an agreement on an E.U. climate change package that goes beyond the Kyoto Protocol commitments. But he has put more attention on plans for a Europe-wide cut in fuel taxes - already dismissed as useless market interference by most other E.U. leaders - and a hard-line European migration pact, which is also lacks widespread support...
...Deadlock" that he'd helped guide with the Climate Group, a London-based environmental NGO. The study plots a road map for international climate negotiations between now and the end of 2009, when the world's nations will meet in Copenhagen to hammer out a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. More than 10 years after the Protocol was signed, the world still has yet to achieve a fairer and more effective climate deal - even as the scientific consensus on global warming has darkened considerably. Politics haven't caught up with climatology...
...Host nation Japan, the most energy-efficient big country in the world, is struggling to meet its Kyoto caps and is backing away from hard targets. Countries can't even agree on which year to employ as a baseline for emission reductions: 1990, which was used for the Kyoto Protocol, or a more recent year. No one is speaking the same language. "You have a clear split between the European and the non-European G8 nations," says Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists. "That makes it unlikely we'll get any specific agreement...
...government's response to Mejia's complaint came in a rambling letter from First Lady Rosario Murillo, an eccentric poet who serves as the government's chief of protocol, and dabbles in songwriting herself - her greatest hits include upbeat Sandinista remixes to John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance" and Bob Marley's "One Love." Mejia could not claim ownership of the songs, she argued, because the folk singer had simply been "an instrument for the divine rhythm" that came through his body "from an unknown, sacred place." Murillo then showcased her own ability to channel the divine rhythm...
...other, more likely, option is for the governments to press ahead with the Lisbon treaty in the hope that the Irish will change their mind. The E.U. could offer the Irish a protocol to clarify that the treaty does not affect national powers on taxation, and a promise to use the Croatian accession treaty to restore the one-commissioner-per-country rule. The Irish would then vote again on the Lisbon treaty next summer. But that would be risky: the E.U. would appear arrogantly dismissive of the June 12 result, and the Irish could vote no again...