Posted on 03/04/2024 6:13:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
To keep Earth from overheating too much, the nations of the world need to put fewer loopholes in climate agreements and far more money — trillions of dollars a year — into financial help for poor nations, the United Nations climate chief said Friday.
In an unusual and blunt lecture at a university in Baku, Azerbaijan, the host city of upcoming international climate negotiations later this year, United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell called gains made in the past not nearly enough. Without the proper amount of cash, he said those could “quickly fizzle away into more empty promises.”
Much of it comes down to money: $2.4 trillion a year, Stiell said. That’s how much a United Nations High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance estimated that developing nations — not including China — need to invest in renewable energy instead of dirtier fossil fuels, as well as to adapt to and recover from climate change harms such as floods, storms, droughts and heat waves.
Richer nations have promised less than 5% of that amount in climate financial help to poor nations — and they often haven’t even delivered that much.
“It’s already blazingly obvious that finance is the make-or-break factor in the world’s climate fight,” Stiell said. “We need torrents — not trickles — of climate finance.”
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relentlessly fighting for thier scam cash cow. The UN in full session needs to e bulldozed into the east river
What makes anyone think that more cash will halt climate change? It doesn’t take a lot of brilliance to realize that we,as humans, do not control the climate.
Humidity levels can be varied somewhat by landscaping and agriculture.
China has converted desert areas.
Temperature can be controlled to some extent by highly reflective paint and by solar panels to convert incident light into electricity.
Can humankind make upstate New York like California? No.
NOT ON A GLOBAL SCALE!!!!!!
Under Gore’s theory, Putin can give the planet a severe ‘fever’ unless the US & EU back off in Ukraine.
It was always about the money, power, and Control Freaks aka Socialism.
“Let’s tax the air!!!”
Less “loopholes” equals more regulation equals more government !!!
NOT INCLUDING CHINA !!!!!!!!
My blunt message to the UN Chief: Go F yourself.
“$2.4 trillion a year, Stiell said..”
How about F’all...as the Aussies would say.
4. GFY Stiell.
Oh. I guess I slept through that lesson in physics.
Keep shoveling money to third world s holes that have a vote at the UN.
Disband that evil organization and let Trump develop it in to a fancy hotel.
We should just have a vote that says we want climate change. Game over.
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