Private Secretary (Climate Change) to
Hon David Parker, Minister Responsible for Climate Change Issues
Telephone 04 471 9131
Mobile 027 694 6278
Fax 04 472 3617
re my previous correspondence on 'Contraction and Convergence" and Mr Parker's reply.
Hello Mary,
I have to say that I am very disappointed with this response. It obfuscates what it is that I am doing with Climate Change. The Government has no right to continue to ignore "Contraction and Convergence" as a 'framework' for climate amelioration given its standing in UK and elsewhere. (see http://www.gci.org.uk/)
It is WRONG to ignore what CAN BE DONE and is being done. This letter is EVIDENCE that it is official GOVERNMENT policy to " maintain a silence closely resembling stupidity" when on one hand the Ministry officials have lied to me telling me that MfE is 'C&C' and Treasury officials at Christchurch launch of ETS called C&C the conscience behind what they are doing. The reply surely suggests the Minister, Hon Parker and my local MP for CHCH East don't know what the left hand is doing (unsurprising given the parlous deletion of C&C as an option for discussion in official documents and a woeful engagement on the subject while 'purporting' to be a consultation). Hon PM. Helen Clark didn't even know what C&C was, admitting to having never heard of it when I asked her personally on her Christchurch launching of the last round of climate initiatives. Yet she had just returned from meeting Gordon Brown in London (C&C adopter) in Great Britain (CarbonZeroBritain is a C&C adopter)
Where as http://www.newstatesman.com/polls/1003 evidences considerable uptake of C&C (83% "beyond Kyoto" support) it makes the missive from Minister Responsible for Climate Change Issues, David Parker look childish at best. No amount of pretence that 'everything considered' Labour has done the right thing will paper over the failure to consider C&C. It's calculated and continuing omission will not be forgotten until it IS included.
I'm not against Labour, and I am not against 'taking of significant steps' in the right direction... I am against pretending this has been a robust consultation.
The evidence is on my side. Labour and the respective Ministries have some explaining to do.
The option to 'significantly' support a significant antipodean 'hemispherical approach' to climate change has been all but lost. The responsibility lies at the feet of the Minister. If not then who?
You may pass on my comments to David as you see fit. I don't/wouldn't expect him to take me seriously given the 'all but ignore' correspondence but he and the rest of his climate changing cohort cannot ignore the increasingly evidential 'weight of public opinion when it is duly informed'.
sig. Blair Anderson
cc: http://blair4mayor.blogspot.com/
On 12/11/07, Mary Carrington <Mary.Carrington@parliament.govt.nz> wrote:
Regards
Mary Carrington
Private Secretary (Climate Change) to
Hon David Parker, Minister Responsible for Climate Change Issues
Telephone 04 471 9131
Mobile 027 694 6278
Fax 04 472 3617
Email mary.carrington@parliament.govt.nz
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