G20 summit lays bare growing climate change division (only 11.55 years left)

AFP via Yahoo ^ | 6/29/19 | Sara HUSSEIN

[Libloather]

**SNIP**

Negotiators known as sherpas were stuck working into the small hours of Saturday morning, trying frantically to find wording that both climate sceptics and those looking for strong commitments could agree on.

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And China, one of the world's top emitters, joined France and the United Nations to issue its own statement, with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi saying countries must "strengthen our action."

"All countries must remain firm in their confidence and deliver on the commitments in the Paris agreement," Wang added.

But the divisions are unlikely to disappear soon, and the issue may prove even harder to resolve when international leaders gather next year: the 2020 G7 meeting will be chaired by the United States, and the next G20 summit will be held in oil-producer Saudi Arabia.

[Libloather]

They better hurry up.

"Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?" Ocasio-Cortez told Coates. "This is the war — this is our World War II."
January 22, 2019

[TigersEye]

Don’t waste your money on #FakeScience!

[MichaelCorleone]

No matter what they come up with, and they will, the answer will be to pony up ever more of your hard earned dollars to hand over to the UN.

[FLT-bird]

Funny for China to say when China made no commitment at all to reduce their carbon emissions.

Go ahead Yurps! Lead the way. Show us how its done. Slash your emissions. We’ll sit back and watch.

[spintreebob]

Trump’s trade war with China will suppress the Chinese economy and reduce emmissions from China in compliance with the wildest dreams of the G199.

In recognition of Trump’s genius on fighting Climate Hoax, He will receive the Nobel Prize for Saving the World.

[pas]

How bold of china to ask all nations to honor their commitments when they didn’t make any.

[colorado tanker]

Now I know why I didn’t choose a science career. I never would have thought that paying China gobs of money to continue to be the top CO2 emitter in the world would reduce global temps and end global warming? Science is hard.

[MAGAthon]

6 Nov 2012: Tweet: Donald J. Trump: The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/265895292191248385?lang=en

29 Jun: Politico: G20 leaders agree declaration after climate fight
By Jakob Hanke
Two senior EU negotiators said they had fought with the United States over the climate chapter until 4 a.m. on Saturday, when they decided to pause talks as they saw no way out of the deadlock...
Crucially, China backed the EU and fought to keep countries committed to the Paris agreement. In a joint statement released Saturday morning, China and France pushed countries to stick to the climate deal...
https://www.politico.eu/article/merkel-g20-leaders-agree-declaration-after-climate-fight/

18 Jan: China Business Review: How China is Forging a New Global Clean Energy Landscape
Yes—the world’s largest carbon emitter is simultaneously leading the globe in renewable energy production.
by Barbara Finamore, senior attorney and Asia senior strategic director at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
Five of the 10 largest wind turbine manufacturers and nine of the world’s top 10 solar panel manufacturers are Chinese-owned or -operated. In 2017, Chinese solar manufacturers accounted for about 68 percent of global solar cell production and more than 70 percent of the world’s production of solar panels, also known as solar modules.
https://www.chinabusinessreview.com/how-china-is-forging-a-new-global-clean-energy-landscape/

none of the above even mentions how many Western “renewable” energy companies have factories in China.