Posted on 05/29/2020 5:08:25 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The coronavirus pandemic has prompted the United Nations to delay until late 2021 a crucial climate summit that had been scheduled for Britain this year, officials said on Thursday.
This year’s meeting, known as the COP26 summit, had been billed as the most important climate change summit since the 2015 talks that produced the Paris Agreement. Hundreds of world leaders had been expected to respond to public pressure for stronger global climate action by delivering pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions more rapidly.
The summit will be rescheduled to Nov. 1 to 12, 2021, the UN’s climate body decided, dates proposed by the British government. Glasgow, Scotland will remain the host city, and there will first be a warm-up summit in Italy.
British climate official Alok Sharma said the delay would give countries more time to rebuild economies with climate change prioritized. Negotiators from bloc of less developed countries also urged governments not to use the pandemic to delay stronger climate plans, but instead to boost renewable energy, conservation and other green measures as economies recover.
European Union leaders proposed such a plan on Wednesday to tie a 750 billion euro recovery fund to climate goals.
“The postponement of the COP should not affect the resolve of countries to deliver on these commitments in 2020,” said Sonam Wangdi of Bhutan, a member of the LDC bloc.
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Well maybe with only a little over nine year left next year they will opt for jim jones(ing) themselves
Forget climate change,this virus sham is a better shtick.
They are waiting for Trump to be defeated before they meet. Why waste the cycles if the US won’t come to the table.
Less important than a good bowel movement.
Postpopned?
Mother Erf can’t wait!
This is like deciding not to hold a coming-out* party during a funeral. It would flop.
The climate hoax requires mountains of money at a time when the economies of the world are about to hit a 1930-style disaster. Oops! Reschedule, reschedule! The climate hoax is a liberal luxury item when nobody can afford even living their ordinary life; let alone increasing the cost of everything to fund an idiot idea few non-political people believe in or care about.
*LGBTQRS reference. (They keep adding letters as if these were all one solid voting block. The L’s hate the T’s, and everybody else. The G’s think the T’s are ridiculous.)
“Crucial”
In other words, where else are 10,000 scammers going to get a 10-day all-expense paid ultra-lux vacation?
The virus sham has been pretty darn effective in reducing pollution around the world.
Finally, a ray of sunshine in this catastrophe.
No one cares about the rising seas? The dangerous CO2? The melting snow , the polar bears? Terrorism( John Kerry)? Oh my...plastic bags? Droughts? Starvation? HOW DARE YO! YOU’VE STOLEN OUR FEAR MONGERING
Greta will not be pleased.
Lol
Anything that delays their stupid meetings is a good thing :-)
Huh... but climate change is gonna destroy the world in less than 10 years... Doesn’t postponing this summit just hasten the world’s demise for short term health?
Crucial Climate Summit is an oxymoron.
This is May. We should be sweating our pants off with 100 degree temps in TX. But noooo, we’ve been in the 70s for many days this month. Take that globull warming.
Excellent point.
As with other Democrat/Left hysterics (e.g., plastic bags; plastic straws; second-/third-hand smoke; gender equality, etc., etc.), global warming/climate change/whatever is no longer a "hot-button" issue because capitalizing on Americans' (especially American "men") abject irrational fear of the Chinese virus is proving to be so much more effective in paralyzing the West and "fundamentally transforming the United States of America".
At least there is apparently a real virus. Can’t say that much for climate change. Surely the climate does change somewhat, but why are we wasting money & time worrying about something that occurs naturally & that we really can’t change? There are enough real problems in the would that possibly could be changed if they were realistically worked on. Seems to me that the U.N. has long outlived it’s usefulness. Greta Thunberg is as good a spokesman as they have, and as has been said...”our best is none too good”.
So CRITICAL doesn’t actually mean critical?
My thoughts exactly. They are betting on Biden!
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