11:15-12pm Radio4 Sue MacGregor reunites environmentalists and politicians
who fought fossil fuel industry lobbyists to secure the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol..w hich, for the first time, committed 38 developed countries to collectively cut their greenhouse gas emissions, took a gruelling diplomatic struggle to reach agreement in December 1997.

After ten days of intense negotiations in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto, the Argentinian diplomat overseeing efforts to strike the world's first legally binding climate agreement suspended the committee session and huddled with key players in an attempt to prevent the collapse of the talks.

"We were making public policy on probably the defining issue of our time at three in the morning amongst people who hadn't slept for 48 hours," recalls Joanna Depledge, who gained a close-up view of the Kyoto Protocols's make or break moment as a member of the United Nations Climate Secretariat. At about 5am, the morning after the official end of the conference, there was an agreement. When Chairman Estrada declared the so-called committee of the whole was recommending the adoption of the protocol "by unanimity", the conference floor erupted in cheers.

Featuring : Joanna Depledge formerly part of the the UN's Climate Secretariat,
former British Environment Minster John Gummer (Lord Deben),
campaigner Tony Juniper of Friends of The Earth,
and lawyer Farhana Yamin, who was then policy advisor to the Alliance of Small Island Nations.
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.

Secondly all this hyperventilating is pretty pathetic. I guarantee you not one of these red little traitors so much as raised an eye lid as the Clinton led State Department killed Gidaffi (sp??), destabilized Libya and plunged the entire region in to chaos!!
And yet these clowns are falling over themselves to condemn war longer Trump.
Apr 15, 2018 at 7:14 AM | Mailman

Gidaffi? What is wrong with Go Daffy?

Someone has been busy updating Syria's entry at Wikipedia. The number of different combatants, parties, interests etc is substantial, but the history of failures by the International political community don't go back more than a few years, allegedly.

Short of having troops on the ground (most likely won't happen outside of special forces) the goal is no doubt to suck Russia and Iran deeper and deeper in to Syria and make them both bleed.

The black baby Jesus may have created the conditions for the collapse of Syria but the anointed orange one can make Barry's friends hurt good and red all over Syrian soil.

Secondly all this hyperventilating is pretty pathetic. I guarantee you not one of these red little traitors so much as raised an eye lid as the Clinton led State Department killed Gidaffi (sp??), destabilized Libya and plunged the entire region in to chaos!!

And yet these clowns are falling over themselves to condemn war longer Trump. Time for these idiots to fuck off.

Univision, a broadcaster to American Hispanics and also the owner of Fusion Media Group, announces cutbacks which include eliminating Univision Planeta, a global-warming environmental division.

On Youtube, a former employee also gives his interesting general inside view of such modern broadcasters which these days are more interested in producing narratives they think customers want to hear (as diagnosed by the marketing department), rather than troubling them with truth and facts they may not wish to hear.

Of course if your marketing department is staffed entirely with activists then you probably won't get a good picture of your customers real attitudes. Of course that's not something the BBC has to worry about, and they anyway regard it as their job to get us believing the 'correct' views.