Asia Pacific Partnership FOIA Email 10.24.05 (b)

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From: Shirzad, Faryar
To: Peel. Kenneth L.: C onnaughton, James:
CC: H~~iannegan, Bryan J~.; Hunter, Roszell; Cade, Dayna C.; Hutto.
Subject: RE: Rice and Asia Paific Partnership launch in Australia
Date: Monday, October 2,2005 9:25:08 PM
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From: Peel, Kenneth L.
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 6:50 PM
To: Connaughton, James; Shirzad, Faryar
Cc: Hannegan, Bryan J.; Hunter, Roszel; Cade, Dayna C.; Hutto, Chase
Subject: Rice and Asia Pacific Partnerhip launch in Australia
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October 7, 2005 Friday
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HEADLINE: Australia says no date set for US-led
energy forum
BYLINE: ROD McGU IRK; AscaePress Writer
DATELINE: CANBERRA, Australia
BODY:
an inaugural U.S.-backed
Australia said Friday it hasn't set a dtefor ho sting

3. a setback to an effort that
summit aimed at reducing greenhouse gases, dealing warming pact.
global
critics have called a ploy to undermine the Kyoto
- which also
The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Energy Development launched in July
Australia - was
includes China, Japan, India, South Ko~rea and
carbon dioxide and other gases
to develop technologies to reduce emis~sions of
touted as a more effective
believed to be warming Earth's atmosphere. It was~
solution to global warming than the Kyot Protocol.
the Kyoto pact and an excuse
Critics, however, suspected it was a pii to undo
which took effect in February
for Washington and Canberra to reiect the protocol, gas emissions by
and aims to cut carbon dioxide and other greenhouse
1990 levels by 2012.
industrialized nations by 5.2 percent below their
do enough to curb global
Australia is among critics who say Kyo does not economies including
warming because it doesn't impose targets on developing
China and India.
energy partnership was
The inaugural ministerial meeting of the cleaner but Environment
scheduled to be held in the city of Ade laide in November, set.
had been
Minister Ian Campbell said Friday tha no date
as we've got that date,"'Campbell
"The particular date will be announce as soon
told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.
senior official involved in
The British Broadcasting Corp. quotedl an unidentified been postponed until
had
the process as saying Thursday that te meeting
January at the earliest.
Greens party, said the summit
Christine Milne, a senator of the envii rnmentalist
made progress toward
had been postponed because the group hadn't
developing and sharing cleaner ener y technologies.
deploying and transferring
The group's vision statement talks of developing, technology in which
coal
technologies such as nuclear power and clean
while burning coal.
greenhouse gases are extracted and eliminated
and sets no emissions*
Yet critics note that the U.S.-led partiership is nonbinding
reduction targets.
to sign Kyoto, said the
The opposition Labor Party, which ants Australia an annual U.N. meeting on
government wanted a November Su~mit to pre-empt will plan how the Kyoto
28 and
climate change that begins in Montr al on Nov.

4. targets will be monitored when they become enforceable from 2008.
it
Postponing the meeting "would be humiliating for the government because
attempted to spin the pact and the Adel ide meeting as a major international
spokesman
breakthrough for addressing climate change," Labor's environment
Anthony Albanese said in a statement.
Kyoto,
He suspected China, India, Japan and south Korea, which have signed
did not want to present the pact as an alternative.