>Climate Change Hoax : America used spying, threats and promises of aid to get support for Copenhagen accord.
America used spying, threats and promises of aid to get support for Copenhagen accord.
WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord
Embassy dispatches show America used spying, threats and promises of aid to get support for Copenhagen accord.
Damian Carrington guardian.co.uk, Friday 3 December 2010 21.30 GMT
https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-us-manipulated-climate-accord
Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage.
The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid is used by countries to gain political backing; how distrust, broken promises and creative accounting dog negotiations; and how the US mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the controversial “Copenhagen accord”, the unofficial document that emerged from the ruins of the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009.
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