Israel cancels UN climate change summit envoy due to high security cost
Environment Min. Gideon Ezra announces cancellation of delegation to Kyoto Protocol meet in Indonesia.
By Tzafrir Rinat Tags: Israel environmentIsrael will not send a delegation to the United Nations conference on global warming set for next month in Indonesia as security costs for the journey would be too high, Environmental Protection Minister Gideon Ezra announced Wednesday.
The international community considers global warming one of the world's most pressing issues. Despite the fact that Israel is not among the nations the UN has ordered to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Israeli environmental organizations and Environment Ministry experts agreed attendance at the Indonesia summit was of vital importance.
The Indonesia summit is the annual meeting of nations who have ratified the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The protool, which comprises an undertaking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by each nation that ratifies it, has been signed by 137 countries.
This year's UNFCCC meet is particularly significant as the UN has recently released reports which indicate disturbingly high levels of global warming and its effects across the world.
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with Global Warming. Its because the "SUN IS GETTING HOTTER" and Vulcanic activity at the bottom of the ocean. Is there anyone could explian "The last ice age"? that time had no pollution? Its good that they canceled this Global warming nonsense!!
No UN member should be left in a security jeopardizing or monetarily compromising position such that it cannot participate in the UNFCCC. Shame on the UN for letting down its members.
Indonesia is an oppresive dictatorship where Christian and Chinesw minorities are persecuted - people are murdered, houses are burned, etc. That the worthless UN meets there for anything is a statement on the UN's lack of concern for humanity.