There was never any intention on the part of any of those nations to actually meet any part of the agreement except the part of redistribution of wealth. PERIOD.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation.”
Christiana Figueres, U.N. Climate Change Chairperson
In trying to search for that quote I used “climate change economy opportunity”. All of the recent articles have quotes on how the climate change crap will bring $XX trillions of dollars into the economy and is a huge opportunity.
Fixing a problem, epecially a non-existent one does not “bring in dollars”. It spends them.
I was working on a job where they were demolishing a 9 year old skyscraper due to the builder not coating the ends of the rebar with epoxy. (A task that maybe would take one guy 4 hours a day to do?) The rebar was rusting. They had spent millions trying to fix the problem. Then had to tear the whole thing down.
I was taking a break and some low-level construction worker was watching the demolition (trackhoes, etc.)
I said, “What a shame - taking down a brand new building. What a waste.”
“Whadya’ mean? This is giving us jobs. And then I’ll be working on putting up the new building and that will take a lot longer!”
They have these conferences every year beginning in 1995 when the UN Treaty on Global Warming went into effect.
The first Conference of Parties was in 1995. The 21st Conference of Parties was in Paris in 2015.