Does anyone believe this is gonna happen?

An e-mail from a global warming group alerted me to this news story:

SYDNEY, Australia, September 8, 2007 (ENS) - Asia-Pacific leaders agreed on Saturday to adopt a "long-term aspirational goal" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the region in support of the United Nations' global efforts, announced Australian Prime Minister John Howard.

Under the Sydney Declaration on Climate Change, Energy Security and Clean Development, the goals are to reduce energy intensity by at least 25 percent by 2030 from the 2005 level, and to increase forest cover in the region by at least 20 million hectares of all types of forests by 2020.

The non-binding numerical targets indicate that APEC leaders wish to throw their political muscle behind an international push to avert the worst consequences of a warming planet.
This is the first year that leaders from the 21 APEC member economies have included climate change discussions in their annual summit.

The leaders of the world's two largest greenhouse gas emitters - U.S. President George W. Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao - said Thursday that they support international cooperation to deal with global warming.

"We talked about climate change and our desire to work together on climate change," Bush said at a news conference after their meeting.

Hu said, "We believe that the issue of climate change bears on the welfare of the whole humanity and sustainable development of the whole world. And this issue should be appropriately tackled through stronger international cooperation."

Given the amount of logging going on in the rain forests between Australia and China, and given the number of coal-fired power plants and automobiles that are to be put in use in China between now and 2030, and given the ever-increasing power needs in the USA, does anyone think these pronouncements are worth a hill of beans?

Not me.