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/2010

  • #cablegate : Magouilles diplomatiques autour du #climat

    WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord | The Guardian
    http://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.