{"id":38439,"date":"2013-11-18T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=38439"},"modified":"2013-11-18T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T17:51:00","slug":"cop-19-climate-conference-sees-little-progress-even-as-global-warming-wreaks-devastation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/11\/18\/cop-19-climate-conference-sees-little-progress-even-as-global-warming-wreaks-devastation\/","title":{"rendered":"COP 19 Climate Conference Sees Little Progress Even as Global Warming Wreaks Devastation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20131118Uprising\/2013_11_18_cop19.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20131118Uprising\/2013_11_18_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/cop19.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Despite the devastation wrought by Typhoon Haiyan in the Phillipines, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change happening in Warsaw, Poland has seen little progress, now in its second week. The usual tense dynamics between the group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Developed nations like the US, and Emerging Economies like India and China are dominating proceedings. <\/p>\n<p>Several nations backtracked on their commitments to curb greenhouse gases. Citing the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan reduced its targets for emissions reductions to global dismay. Australia announced a weakening of its carbon tax. And Canada lauded Australia\u2019s decision, urging other countries to do the same. <\/p>\n<p>The group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) has submitted their request for funding for climate resilience and adaptation \u2013 a point of major contention. <\/p>\n<p>The Philippines climate delegate Yeb Sa\u00f1o, who had publicly announced a hunger strike last week is keeping his pledge to fast until tangible progress is made. Meanwhile towns and cities in the US Midwest were devastated by a string of deadly storms over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Michael Dorsey, interim-program Director for the Energy and Environment Program at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, he served as a member of Senator Barack Obama\u2019s energy and environment Presidential campaign team and in 2010 and 2012 was appointed to the EPA\u2019s National Advisory Committee<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the devastation wrought by Typhoon Haiyan in the Phillipines, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change happening in Warsaw, Poland has seen little progress, now in its second week. The usual tense dynamics between the group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Developed nations like the US, and Emerging Economies like India and China [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38447,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38439\/revisions\/38447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}