{"id":7890,"date":"2011-12-16T10:04:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=7890"},"modified":"2011-12-16T10:04:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T15:04:08","slug":"un-says-canada-cant-quit-kyoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2011\/12\/un-says-canada-cant-quit-kyoto\/","title":{"rendered":"UN says Canada can&#8217;t quit Kyoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the UN\u2019s Hotel Kyoto.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lorne Gunter <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2011\/12\/16\/lorne-gunter-welcome-to-hotel-kyoto\/\">writes<\/a> in the <em>National Post<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After federal Environment Minister Peter Kent announced Monday that Canada would be withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol on carbon emissions, the head of the UN agency that administers the protocol said she would not permit Ottawa to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Christiana Figueres, the Costa Rican diplomat and bureaucrat who is executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said Tuesday, \u201cI regret that Canada has announced it will withdraw,\u201d but, she added, \u201cwhether or not Canada is a party to the Kyoto Protocol, it has a legal obligation under the Convention to reduce its emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the UN\u2019s Hotel Kyoto: \u201cYou can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What arrogance; what rot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2011\/12\/16\/lorne-gunter-welcome-to-hotel-kyoto\/\">Read Gunter&#8217;s column.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LMFqh_tiHoQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the UN\u2019s Hotel Kyoto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy","category-green-hell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-23g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}