Five Reasons COP25 Climate Talks Failed (only 11.14 years left)

IB Times ^ | 12/25/19 | Marlowe Hood

[Libloather]

The climate summit in Madrid earlier this month did not collapse -- but by almost any measure it certainly failed.

Five years after the fragile UN process yielded the world's first universal climate treaty, COP25 was billed as a mopping-up session to finish guidelines for carbon markets, thus completing the Paris Agreement rulebook.

Governments faced with a crescendo of deadly weather, dire alarms from science and weekly strikes by millions of young people were also expected to signal an enhanced willingness to tackle the climate crisis threatening to unravel civilisation as we know it.

The result? A deadlock and a dodge.

The 12-day talks extended two days into overtime but still punted the carbon market conundrum to next year's COP26 in Glasgow.

**SNIP**

From the moment Trump was elected -- on Day Two of COP22 in Marrakesh -- advocates of climate action have played down the negative impact of the world's largest economy and second biggest carbon polluter pulling out of the Paris deal.

But the corrosive "Trump effect" was palpable in Madrid, as was the anger at Washington for twisting arms even as it walked out the door.

"There are one or two parties that seem hell-bent on ensuring any calls for ambition, action and environmental integrity are rolled back," said Simon Stiell, Grenada's environment minister.

Poor and small-island nations exposed to climate-addled weather -- drought, heatwaves, super-storms, rising seas -- were especially incensed at behind-the-scenes US efforts to block a separate stream of money for "loss and damage".

[tbw2]

They’ve cried wolf - “12 years til the end of the world” - for decades.

U.N. predicts disaster (by 2000) if global warming not checked - June 29 1989, Peter Spielman
https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0

UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.

[dp0622]

That sounds it like it was funny :)

[dp0622]

Wow.

I don’t know what the heck happened last month.

Holidays, maybe.

There’s NO walk way on that bridge.

But the brooklyn and manhattan bridges and even the staten island bridges going to nj aren’t as steep of a drop and one might have a decent chance of liging.

verrazano, not so much

[elbook]

When countries like China say they arent subject to any restrictions, the other countries (even the leftist run ones) realize they will only be destroying their own country’s economies and INCREASING the competitions advantage.

Even hard leftards aren’t THAT stupid.

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