Posted on 04/28/2018 4:10:34 PM PDT by PROCON
Front-line negotiators from more than 190 nations gathering for climate talks in Bonn on Monday face a daunting task: bring the 2015 Paris Agreement to life.
The world's only climate treaty pledges to cap global warming at "well under" two degrees Celsius and prevent manmade CO2 from leeching into the atmosphere by century's end.
But it left a mountain of critical rules and procedures to be worked out.
"This may sound like a technical exercise, but it matters," Todd Stern, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC and the top climate diplomat under Barack Obama, said in a recent speech.
"Guidelines have a lot to do with how strong the regime becomes."
The deadline for completing this "rule book" is the November climate summit in Katowice, Poland. The agreement itself goes live in 2020.
Negotiators have had more than two years to hammer out the fine print but—as per usual—have procrastinated.
"It's no secret that things have not been going swimmingly so far," said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, a Washington-based advocacy and research group.
How quickly the world weans itself from fossil fuels, improves energy efficiency, and learns how to suck CO2 out of the air will determine whether climate change remains manageable or unleashes a maelstrom of human misery.
The window of opportunity for holding the rise in temperature at 2 C (3.6 F)—much less the 1.5 C ceiling the Paris pact vows to consider—has grown perilously narrow.
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The money line towards the bottom of the article:
A key complaint by recipient nations, {think turd world}, is that rich ones have failed to map how and when money promised will be delivered.
It’s never been about the climate. It has ALWAYS been about the money. Just ask Algore, the father of the global warming hoax.
The Paris Accord and Iran Deal are like Herpes.
Gore-Bull Warming has always been a money transfer scheme.
Even if we could control the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, we could not control the temperature.
The Sun is variable.
Who is going to control the Sun?
So, 189 other nations can waste their money if they want to.
Obviously never heard of trees.
Of those 190 nations, how many plan to be ‘receivers’ (of money) and how many are supposed to be ‘payers’ ?
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