Posted on 12/15/2019 6:56:22 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A handful of major states resisted pressure on Dec. 15 to ramp up efforts to combat global warming as a U.N. climate summit came to a delayed close.
The summit talks in Madrid, dubbed COP25, were viewed as a test of governments’ collective will for more aggressive cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. But the conference, in its concluding draft, endorsed only a modest declaration on the “urgent need” to close the gap between existing emissions pledges and the temperature goals of the 2015 Paris climate pact.
Brazil, China, Australia, Saudi Arabia, and the United States had led resistance to bolder action, delegates told Reuters.
At a midnight stocktaking session on Dec. 15, Carolina Schmidt, Chile’s environment minister, who served as president of the talks, appealed for consensus.
“I request all your strength to get an ambitious agreement. I count on you to reach consensus,” she said.
Earlier, Andres Landerretche, COP25 presidency coordinator, ratcheted up expectations, saying at an on-site press conference that his mood was one of “general-moderate optimism” and that he hoped the final contributions of delegates would “crystallize into a very good outcome.”
As it turned out, the Madrid talks became mired in disputes over the rules that should govern international carbon trading. Brazil and Australia were among the main holdouts, delegates said, and the summit deferred big decisions on carbon markets until later.
“We are of mixed emotions,” Schmidt said after the final decisions were made.
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Can we get out the little violins and start sobbing?
;-)
UN out of US.
US out of UN!
international carbon trading = Algore’s cash cow ?
All of you. Up against the wall!
“We’re all in as long as the Great Satan is funding the bill.”
I guess a feminine female would not be taken seriously, so they got the dude looking woman.
Perhaps some of them are aware of real climate science,
and realize that we are, in fact, about to enter another
solar minimum and they’re gonna need that carbon.
(Optimum CO2 levels for plant life, and therefore animal
life, are about twice what we have today.)
(Hence the illicit push against carbon, so that even more
can perish from the coming cold.)
https://youtu.be/M_yqIj38UmY
Professor Valentina Zharkova: The Solar Magnet Field and
the Terrestrial Climate
Professor Valentina Zharkova’s ‘Expanded’ Analysis still
Confirms Super Grand Solar Minimum (2020-2055)
~Easy
She looks like that gal from the TV show Friends, but older and with Smart Girl glasses.
I wanted that to happen when I was ten years old.
Now I’m 74.
.gov moves slowly.... ;-)
Carolina Schmidt, Chile’s environment minister, who served as president of the talks... “I request all your strength to get an ambitious agreement. I count on you to reach consensus,” she said.
The attendees DID reach consensus. So up hers.
In the meantime they all had a nice paid vacation compliments of the American taxpayer.
It’s much more difficult for them to fleece US when we don’t cooperate.
they all seem to look alike aster a fashion
Yeah. I can see it.
Can something be both tragic and yet highly amusing?
That post fits the description.
“It’s funny b/c it’s true!”
As long as it made Greta Toonberg cry I’m good.
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