Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The new Brazilian Bolsonaro Government has notified the United Nations they no longer want to host next year’s United Nations global summit meeting on climate change.
Brazil cancels hosting climate change summit
Rio de Janeiro: Brazil has pulled out of hosting next year’s United Nations global summit meeting on climate change, the latest signal that Latin America’s largest nation no longer aspires to be an influential player in efforts to mitigate the effects of a warming planet.
The decision leaves the United Nations scrambling to find a new venue for the conference, which was scheduled to take place next November. It comes about a month before the inauguration of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who has vowed to empower commercial ventures in the Amazon and other Brazilian biomes while weakening enforcement of environmental laws.
Bolsonaro’s incoming foreign minister, Ernesto Araujo, a career diplomat, has called the movement to reduce global warming a plot by “Marxists” to stifle the economic growth of capitalist democracies while lifting China.
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In a statement, Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said the decision was made to save money. It also cited the “transition process” as Bolsonaro prepares to take office.
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“The image of Brazil is at risk,” said Carlos Rittl, executive secretary of the Brazilian Climate Observatory, an environmental group. “Climate and the environment are the only issues where Brazil is a leader in global terms. We are not leaders in world trade, we are not leaders in a geopolitical sense on security issues. But on climate and environment we are leaders, and we are giving that up.”
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In my opinion Brazil’s very public snub of the United Nations climate cabal sends a strong message that the Bolsonaro government’s priority is attracting investment and maximising economic growth.
Becoming a world leading economic power provides hope and opportunities to the poor. Being an “environment leader” not so much.
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There is a lesson here in how to manage the publicity, in fact a great opportunity for sceptics with bills to pay. There will be the inevitable deluge of wailing from the Green Blob, all eager to please their sponsors, so govts that choose to challenge the Blob need to deploy high quality information, and get it out to the public.
C’mon sceptics, form charities and NGOs and get deploying the high quality arguments, here is my suggestion:
We (the Brazilian govt) have performed a cost-benefit analysis, and have concluded that the carbon footprint of this conference would be damaging to the planet, and would produce no quantifiable benefit.
Yeah, you’d think with all that fossil fuel money coming in, we skeptics could afford to outspend the green blob on such organizations. That we don’t makes it seem like the “in the pay of fossil fuel companies” line is more myth than reality. Surely that can’t be (/sarc for the humor impaired and other assorted NPCs)
The TNE (Trump Nation Effect) continues to expand worldwide. Unfortunately, so does the TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), but only on the left..
In June 1992, more than 100 heads of states met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the first International Earth Summit. It was held for addressing urgent problems of environmental protection and socio-economic development at the global level. This was one of the early global conferences to begin to address the issue of global warming as it was known at that time.
In October, 2018, the newly elected Government of Brazil cancels the 2019 Major UN Climate Conference. The wheels are coming off this charade of what has become a farce with this war on ‘carbon’. And where much of this began in 1992, now Brazil wants nothing much more to do with all this crap.
A CAGW ‘conference’ is a circus/media event which was developed to push CAGW.
Brazil is focusing on their real problems which are solved by GDP growth which will in turn provide jobs and more money to tax.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-paris-summit-a-colossal-waste-of-time/article27751521/
We cannot solve any problems. We cannot even talk about the ruddy problems.
CAGW is so very, very, important to the Zombies, that they have forced a yearly conference.
Things we don’t talk about.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/books/review-retreat-of-western-liberalism-edward-luce.html
Referenced in Roger Pielke Jr.’s lecture on ‘Climate Politics as Manichean Paranoia’
William,
McKibben is such a canker sore.
Thank you for a great post
Russia and Braziljust signed a MOU to develop nuclear power beyond Angra 1 and 2. Meanwhile :
PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON THIS WEEK ANNOUNCED FRENCH ENERGY GOAL OF SHUTTING DOWN 14 NUCLEAR REACTORS BY 2035, out of the 58 now running at 19 plants; and capping the volume of electricity from nuclear generation, at 50%, down from its high of 78%. He presented this insanity as a desirable way to reduce the use of fossil fuels for the nation, whose population have been protesting in the streets over high fuel prices and costs of living.
The Mem. Of Understanding, is from 2017, before the election. What will Bolsonaro do now?
Of course the Rio earth summit was hugely influential in all this, so Brazil has had a big role in CAGW. Abandoning it like this is really quite telling.
Have they ever heard of Skype?
““The image of Brazil is at risk,” said Carlos Rittl, executive secretary of the Brazilian Climate Observatory, an environmental group. ”
Yep, it’s all about image, not results.
I vote they have it in Midland, TX.
All the hotels and motels in Midland run pretty full during the weekdays with field workers. So maybe FEMA could bring in a bunch of RV trailers and set up a big RV lot next to some frack drilling pads for all the delegates?
The wafting smell of fresh raw crude, a hint of hydrogen-sulfide, all mixed with the diesel exhaust and dust would make for a good real-world experience for the delegates.
The overflow could go to Hobbs! All good points, Joel.
I believe Ernesto Araujo was taking a page out of the Trump book in engaging in a bit of hyperbole when he called the CAGW movement a “plot by “Marxists” to stifle the economic growth of capitalist democracies while lifting China.” It’s an excellent way of tweaking the noses of those claiming to be “saving the planet”, and taunting them. They deserve every bit of it.
Yep
It has become a blueprint strategy to resist.
Needs to be in Latin America, OK Venezuela would be great, get Soros to pay for it. After all this is about saving the planet. Great liberal cause!
Too busy cutting down trees and causing Global Greening – an expensive business so hence the need for ‘Cost Savings’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-46327634
The big environmental problem in Btrazil isn’t the Amazon rainforest – the loss there is trivial. It is the conversion of the cerrado woodland south of the Amazon into soybean fields, which is happening at a tremenduous rate.
But all those soybeans go to China, so it is a no-no subject to right-thinking environmentalists.
“the cerrado woodland …”
Isn’t that more accurately described as scrubland? I’ve read FOE pieces bewailing the threat, and a piece in the Economist lauding its clearing. There doesn’t seem to be any real threat to biodiversity there (i.e., extinction), except on a local scale.
If they are so worried about fossil fuel use, they should be teleconferencing, not traveling.
I like the new logo.
Trump should offer to have the US host it in Casper Wyoming.
The delegates could get bus tours of the Powder River Basin and Gillette area surface coal mines, and the Pacificorp Dave Johnston generating plant down the road in GlenRock. And there are 5 big wind turbine farms jus to the east of Casper so the renewable energy true believers can go worship their icons. A little further down towards Cheyenne-Denver corridor they could tour some fracking operations on the Niobrara.
And if the delegates don’t like the idea of Casper in November, maybe Midland-Odessa Texas would be a good host site? Lots of frack operations of course there to tour.
All in all, the delegates could then get a better grasp on how the US will help power the world with coal, petroleum and LNG exports in the coming decades. And also on how ridiculously small and ineffective are renewables power sources compared to the world’s needs for energy.
If security is a problem, why not host it on a small island, like the Canaries or the Balerics (sp?) or the Andemans?
Or Alcatraz?
Bikini
I’ve recently heard of great little island, North Sentinel Island, that they could host it in the beautiful tropical waters of the Indian Ocean. I hear the natives are very friendly.
We aught to find a small island where cannibalism , surely a matter of taste, being politically correct an’ all that, means invitation to diner just can’t be refused. Where is Columbus’ island of Satansia when we need it!
Host it at Al Gores house . Drink in that lovely California wildfires air
while pretending to be able to control the earth’s climate .
It sucks when the USA isn’t being duped into picking up the tab all the time .
Maybe Brazil just doesn’t want a bunch of eco warriors defacing their prized heritage monuments .
Good move Brazil ! The paid vacation seekers will just have to pick another sucker .
I’m quite surprised. Over my life I have found myself continuously “lowering the bar” when judging the actions of others, particularly politicians.
No politicians I know of would miss out on the chance to bilk the taxpayers for tens of millions of dollars to host an international climate summit. Though he sits on the opposite side of the table as his predecessors, I expected Bolsonaro to play the same game they did. I’m glad to have my expectations proven wrong. I only hope that he continues to do in the future as he is doing now.
Bolsonaro might want to posture on this issue with his voters but he is playing a very dangerous game with his country’s long-term future if he decides to go ahead and withdraw from the 2015 JPCC Climate Change Agreement.
Trump will soon be gone and it has already been shown that his stance agaunst climate change is in complete opposition to other world leaders who are committed to tackling this as a global rather than simply a national problem: https://mankindsdegradationofplanetearth.com/2018/11/30/indisputable-facts-on-climate-change/
The TNE (Trump Nation Effect) continues to expand worldwide. Unfortunately, so does the TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), but only on the left..example….see any Ivan Kinsman posts..
I find it ironic how these people are saving the Planet by hosting expensive and wasteful conferences. They could easily just use Skype, but that wouldn’t gather the same amount of attention. Clear sign that they don’t actually care and just want the money and influence. It’s just politics as usual.
And now a Belgian “green” politician has suggested to our Prime Minister to held COP25 here in Belgium.