Publication - September 5, 2007
Analysis of the “Draft outline of APEC leaders’ declaration on climate change, energy security and clean development”
The leaked draft APEC declaration on climate change and energy confirms that John Howard and George Bush want to use the upcoming APEC meeting to derail international negotiations on continuing and strengthening the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. They are doing this to protect the Australian export coal industry, and American fossil fuel interests.
Greenpeace analysis of the key issues and problems in this declaration: