"Clearly the Obama greens are still in place in the US Government and
they are actively defying, not hiding. This must change. When it comes
to the Paris Agreement, Andrew Rakestraw has to go. We need true Trump
people sitting at the Paris Pact table. An Earthjustice blogger does not
fit this job description." (near end of article)
"Why is this jerk-off even credentialed? Why are we still paying Obama hold-overs?" commenter
Nov. 13, 2017, "Obama greens are running the Trump negotiating team at the UN climate summit," cfact.org, David Wojick, Ph.D.
"Given President Trump’s momentous decision to leave the UN Paris
Agreement, you would think that the State Department would send Trump
people to the Bonn climate summit to represent US interests. You would
be wrong. The US climate negotiator holding the top UN position there is
an Obama hack named Andrew Rakestraw.
Rakestraw is an official co-facilitator in the Bonn COP talks, the
only US delegate to hold such a high position. In UN-speak this is the
equivalent of a Committee Chairman. As with laws in the US Congress,
draft rules for implementing the Paris Pact are first developed by
standing committees, which the UN euphemistically calls “informal
consultations.” These informal consultations produce very formal
proposed rules.
Each informal consultation is led by two co-facilitators, one from a
developed country (where the vast Paris Pact money is supposed to come
from) and one from a developing country (where these huge sums are
supposed to go). Andrew Rakestraw is co-facilitator of the Transparency Framework,
along with Xiang Gao from China. Transparency here means who is giving
what money to whom under the so-called “financial mechanisms” of the
Paris Agreement....
Prior to Trump’s announcement of withdrawal, Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson argued that the US should stay in, in order to protect US
interests. To a degree Tillerson got his wish, because the US is stuck
in for now. But Andrew Rakestraw is certainly not the person to protect
US interests. He is clearly a radical Obama era green and a friend of
the Paris Pact fiasco....
More likely the State climate change group is simply defying the
Trump Administration. This is similar to the way the US Global Change
Research Program has defied the new Administration by issuing its wildly alarmist Climate Science Special Report.
"Here is the semi-official synopsis of how the Transparency Framework
informal consultation meeting went on Saturday, November 11, 2017. There
is no hint of Trump policy here, especially since this is all about
climate-based financial flows from developed to developing countries,
which Trump rejects. (Sorry for the UN-speak but this is how things go
in UN COPs.)
“Informal consultations co-facilitated by Xiang Gao (China) and
Andrew Rakestraw (US) met twice in the afternoon. In the first session,
the co-facilitators invited countries to address Section G and H of the
preliminary material document on the facilitative multilateral
consideration of progress and technical expert review (TER). Many
countries expressed concern that their submissions had been incompletely
or inaccurately captured, and identified missing elements. In the
second session, the co-facilitators invited countries to address Section
F on support needed and received. Several countries identified missing
elements and opportunities for streamlining. A country group expressed
concern about the process, emphasizing that comments and edits should,
at this time, be limited to countries own submissions. Several parties
responded that urgency impelled them to speak about both their own
material and that of others. Two parties argued that support registered
in the transparency framework must be agreed by both providers and
receivers to be aimed exclusively at meeting Paris Agreement
obligations. Countries mandated the co-facilitators to prepare an
informal note as soon as possible and solicit countries reactions in
informal consultations on Monday, 13 November.” (“Informal note” is UN-speak for a draft document.)"
"Clearly the Obama greens are still in place in the US Government and
they are actively defying, not hiding. This must change. When it comes
to the Paris Agreement, Andrew Rakestraw has to go. We need true Trump
people sitting at the Paris Pact table. An Earthjustice blogger does not
fit this job description."...
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Why did Trump even allow anyone to go, if he pulled the US out of this leftist fiasco.
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