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UN climate chief’s blunt message: Fewer loopholes, way more cash to really halt climate change
The Associated Press | DNC ^ | March 2, 2024 | BY SETH BORENSTEIN (D-AP)

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climate; despotism; globalwarming; graft; hoax; marxism; newworldodor; propaganda; theft; tyranny
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1 posted on 03/04/2024 6:13:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate is natural and built in and this chief is a fool thinking money can change it ,LOL


2 posted on 03/04/2024 6:15:59 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The UN pimps want us to shovel our cash into their coffers. Liberals/liberTardians are too stupid to see the scam. Global Warming is wealth redistribution in disguise.


3 posted on 03/04/2024 6:16:30 AM PST by LouAvul (If America will repent of its wickedness and return to Christ, He will forgive and restore. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh look - $***hole dictators and global commies at the UN are demanding more walkin’-around money from Americans - which they will then use to fk us over... their crypto mission.

Make America great and just shell the UN building in plqce. Or at least evict the shitholians and use it for migrant housing.


4 posted on 03/04/2024 6:21:08 AM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More authoritarian control will make the weather better, eh?


5 posted on 03/04/2024 6:22:07 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

how about we just pay the UN once to shut the hell up and go away ?


6 posted on 03/04/2024 6:25:44 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A lot of this will go to lapdog pseudo-scientists and NGOs. The NGOs especially will recycle it into politics and second careers for select politicians. Wash, rinse and repeat.


7 posted on 03/04/2024 6:34:46 AM PST by rbg81
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Simon Stiell , is his last name pronounced STEAL ?


8 posted on 03/04/2024 6:36:56 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gotta love these pompous asses. not just an “Expert” Group, but a “High Level Expert group.”


9 posted on 03/04/2024 6:37:21 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The UN is so filled with incompetence that even their janitors would fail a janitor exam. The UN is a complete collection of incompetence, stupidity, and corruption. Lunch the SOBs and DOBs into the sun and cheer as they are reduced into atoms. Eff them and the sewer then came from.


10 posted on 03/04/2024 6:37:28 AM PST by Da Coyote
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Those lying scamming maggots know full well the earth is going to go through another cooling period pretty soon, and they are going to claim

“See folks? We told you! Our efforts to control the climate have paid off, and now the earth is cooling again! Molech be praised we saved the world!”


11 posted on 03/04/2024 6:40:30 AM PST by Bob434
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If we print enough money it will no longer be cold in winter or hot in summer.

It’s science.


12 posted on 03/04/2024 6:40:33 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

$2.4 trillion a year, on nothing but they’ll buy new Villas and Yachts oh and Private Jets


13 posted on 03/04/2024 6:41:37 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
And since "climate change" is total BS...and they know it...this is simply a plea for more cash.

Screw 'em.

14 posted on 03/04/2024 6:42:49 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.)
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[[ not just an “Expert” Group, but a “High Level Expert group.”]]

Holy cow! A “High Level Expert”? That is almost in the category of “Godlike Expert” How blessed we are that the un c9nsults with “High Level Experts”! /s


15 posted on 03/04/2024 6:43:45 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m sending all my money so Martha’s Vineyard and Malibu property owners are safe.


16 posted on 03/04/2024 6:44:57 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Leftists. Income transfer. More. Leftists. Income transfer. More. etc.


17 posted on 03/04/2024 6:54:14 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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1-There is NO "man-made climate change"!

2- There are no changes that man or policy can make that would affect the natural changes in climate.

3-Quit wasting taxpayer money to pander fear and destroy our energy independence!

18 posted on 03/04/2024 7:06:22 AM PST by G Larry (It's RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants and minorities by importing ILLEGAL Laborers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Taxing air, every politician’s dream.


19 posted on 03/04/2024 7:08:59 AM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Temperatures drop quite rapidly in the afternoon here in Florida.

The CO2 in the atmosphere is not a good insulator.


20 posted on 03/04/2024 7:10:39 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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