Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Listed amongst this year’s achievements is the climate gender action plan and an initiative for technology sharing.
UN Climate Change Secretariat Releases First Ever Annual Report
May 2nd, 2018
by Joshua S Hill
The United Nations Climate Change Secretariat released its first ever annual report this week, outlining key achievements made by the Secretariat in 2017 and highlighting the work needed in 2018.
“Climate Change is the single biggest threat to life, security and prosperity on Earth,” said UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa in response to the release of the annual report. “This annual report shows how UN Climate Change is doing everything it can to support, encourage and build on the global response to climate change.” Espinosa also explained in the opening of the annual report that “UN Climate Change’s mandate is to lead and support the global community in this international response, with the Paris Agreement and the Convention being the long-term vehicles for united global climate action.”
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Following the work done at COP23, UN Climate Change helped governments make key decisions including the signing of the Talanoa Dialogue which is being billed as a collaborative process intended to review progress toward the global goals of the Paris Climate Agreement ahead of COP24 at the end of this year, set to be held in Katowice, Poland.
“The purpose of Talanoa is to share stories, build empathy and to make wise decisions for the collective good,” explains the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. “The process of Talanoa involves the sharing of ideas, skills and experience through storytelling.”
In addition, governments signed the first ever Gender Action Plan, which will aim to increase the participation of women in climate change responses, as well as the first-ever agreement on agriculture and climate and a first-ever platform for indigenous peoples and local communities.
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Some highlights from the report;
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UN Climate Change’s mandate is to lead and support the global community in this international response, with the Paris Agreement and the Convention being the long-term vehicles for united global climate action .
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Building on the negotiations over the years, we saw key decisions made by governments, many of which broke new ground. The Talanoa Dialogue, which will inform and inspire Parties as they review their commitments and revise them upwards. The first ever Gender Action Plan, which will increase the participation of women in climate change responses. The first-ever agreement on agriculture and climate, which will address both vulnerabilities and emissions in this key sector. The first-ever platform for indigenous peoples and local communities, who can now share their valuable perspectives on climate change.
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There is much to do in 2018. We need to support Parties to increase pre-2020 action. Those Parties that have not yet done so should ratify the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol.
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The focus in 2017 was both on scaling up action, delivery on commitments before 2020 and on making progress to allow for the adoption of the outcomes of the Paris Agreement work programme at COP 24 in Katowice. By supporting the transfer of climate technology under the Convention based on the right science, tools and knowledge, UN Climate Change supported an increase in the ability of developing countries to adapt to the changing climate.
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The City of Bonn welcomed almost 30,000 people to COP 23, including 25 Heads of State, over 11,000 delegates from Parties and an observer State, and over 9,000 observers from civil society, business and other fields. In a further sign of global commitment, 650 volunteers from more than 80 countries contributed their time. As well as producing decisions and new initiatives, COP 23 witnessed almost USD 1 billion being committed to climate action.
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Accelerating the diffusion of technology
Deploying appropriate climate technology to reduce emissions and adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change will have an immense effect on the ability of developing countries to combat climate change, which is why COP 16 established the Technology Mechanism. This Mechanism supports enhanced action on technology development and transfer to support mitigation and adaptation action by developing countries. The early success of the Technology Mechanism has led to a further mandate that it should serve the Paris Agreement.
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To demonstrate what kinds of technology can be included in action plans, the Technology Executive Committee in 2017 launched three publications (see the box) and organized two major events .The special event on innovation and climate change looked at how to stimulate innovation through green finance, policies, regulations and incentives, while the thematic dialogue on industrial energy efficiency and material substitution explored partnerships and programmes on technology solutions for industrial energy efficiency.
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Read more: https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/UNClimateChange_annualreport2017_final.pdf
The most toxic component of this effort in my opinion is the push for technology sharing. The UN climate bureaucrats already have your money, now they want your government to gift your intellectual property to the United Nations – though they accept they might have to wait until after 2020 for rich nations to comply with their global community “leadership”.
They have failed in curing person’s inhumanity to persons so they will combat climate change where there is no resistance and success is declared. They will place women on the front lines keeping men safely behind to take the credit.
One of the things that always gets me about this kind of story is that they have these international gatherings that include “almost 30,000 people”. If burning fossil fuels/climate change was really the biggest threat to mankind in, presumably, the universe, wouldn’t the they have these things as a teleconference? Think of all the fossil fuels that got burned carrying these a**holes to their various international parties (which is what they really are). Complete and utter crap to impress the proles and entertain the elite.
Yeah, but hooking up online is something of a minority preference. Partying is the main purpose of conferences.
“If burning fossil fuels/climate change was really the biggest threat to mankind in, presumably, the universe, wouldn’t the they have these things as a teleconference?”
And why would they allow China and India to produce as much CO2 as they want for the next 12 years, if CO2 is such a dangerous product (Will Smith actually called CO2 “dangerous” on one episode of the new program “One Strange Rock”)?
So if CO2 is so dangerous why does the UN give China and India full reign to produce as much as they want. Not that they could prevent them from doing so, but the least they could do is complain a little. But no, they are fine with this unregulated production. It’s just the U.S. and Europe that have to curtail their output. That’s what will save the world.
And they claim they want to keep the rise in temperature to 1.5C to keep things safe here on the Earth. Well, it looks like with the lowering ECS figures that we are already there and our further burning of CO2 will not exceed 1.5C.
It looks to me like it’s about time the UNFCCC was disbanded as no longer being necessary.
Waldo, How many of them do you reckon really give a tinker’s damn about anything beyond whatever personal satisfaction they may get from the perceived status that comes from being included among the select 30,000. (Or so.)
…..”Our” global system of ‘governments’ is by far the most prominent threat to the future of civilization as we know it.
Since we are already “gifting” our intellectual property to China, I guess the UN thought it appropriate to follow suit with centralized, global theft as well.
The UN is threat to civilization its self.
Yeah, we don’t want the UN leading us anywhere.
Think of who makes up the UN. Some good people, and a lot of very evil people. The evil people can go jump off a cliff. The good people can follow Trump out of the wilderness.
This is what you get when people don’t have a proper job and have excessive amounts of time with little or nothing to do. As the saying goes
“The devil makes work for idle hands”
James Bull
Time to stop paying for this nonsense. They are welcome to it, for their own money.
Look at photo on page 16 of their report —
‘Women have a critical role to play in responses to climate change.’
Is that what they think of women? Language always gives it away.
It’s part and parcel of their general eco-imperialism: They see most of the world as ignorant savages who need to be educated by affluent Western environmentalists.
They talk about “appropriate” technology, as long as it is the technology they advocate, not what the locals actually want. Thus we had the Indian ‘greenpeace’ village who got lots of solar panels, and then asked for a proper supply of grid-technology. Ouch.
When is the Trump Administration going to enforce the law and stop funding the IPCC for admitting Palestine as a member?
At least a pile of bovine dung is useful as fertilizer. The IPCC? I don’t know.
If you really want to read a load of hooey, just take a look at the March 30, 2018 so-called Palestine Observer State response ( https://unfccc.int/documents/64980 ) to the “where are we” Talanoa Dialog proposition. Apart from the 7th grade level of English — which I’ll give them a pass, having translated to English from Arabic — their points are like watching old porters move furniture. And pathologically “we’re part of the team, see?” cast.
Check out the link.
GoatGuy
Don’t you just love it when a bunch of lawyers and arts graduates lecture the rest of us about efficiency, thermodynamics, and technology.
And the 30000 people traveled to Bonn how? Assuming it was a global attendance then the average distance traveled was a quarter of the earth’s circumference – 10k km – then the total travel distance was 300M km. How responsible is this if the problem is anything like as bad as they would like us to believe?
The problem is that alarmists persist in the constant drip of hyperbolic convective that we see as obviously off-the-charts crazy to the point of thinking we can just dismiss them and surely they’ll go away because the whole thing is so stupid. But their numbers and resolve grows. They are organized, we are not.
We get tired of addressing it, let alone effectively and strategically pushing back. Every now and then we pop in with a short derisive and snarky reply which makes us feel good for a day or so. Me included, btw. There is something to the observation that rational people rather be living their lives… we actually have lives and better things to do. But if we’ve learned anything in the past few years is that we’re in a hot mess precisely because we got lazy and careless on our watch. Freedom from exploiters and the sheep that would follow them is not free.
Yeah the “collective good”, another loaded multiple entendre. And gender climate, another multiple and growing concept. Women have largely bought in given their ‘caring’ instincts, but what about QUERTY genders? I’m encouraged if they are holding back. Or do they mean that the former white-manly art of climateering appears to be attracting white-women in droves?
NO AGW no need for any UN Climate Secretariat, now what type of report do you think an organization very well known for putting its ego before anything else , whose level of competence can be found in Guinness book of records and where a total lack of ability but a big ‘yes thanks ‘ to corruption is no bar to holding office , is going to come up with?
Even if it only said , ‘its raining ‘ you still go outside to check .
I haven’t read other comments. My eyes were too tired after the rolling fit they experienced upon seeing the words, “Gender Action Plan” [expletive of choice].
I mean, isn’t the idea of a … “Gender Action Plan” … a bit presumptuous ? It presumes that the norm is to identify with one gender or another. How old school ! It should be called a “Gender-Fluid Action Plan”, … just to avoid issues of prejudice, non-inclusion, and genderist biases. I made up the word, “genderist”, to mean biased towards the belief that one identifies with a gender. [You know, like “sexist”, but broader]
I just don’t think that a truly progressive person can play the gender card anymore.
I’m just now getting a grasp of the concept of … “pan-sexual”. Apparently, “bi-sexual” is a bit presumptive these days.