Failure In Madrid As COP25 Climate Summit Ends In Disarray
Negotiations at a U.N. climate summit in Madrid broke down today as the two-week meeting ended without a crucial agreement on the global carbon market rules of the Paris Agreement.
After extending the two-week summit for an additional two days, the world’s countries agreed a text with vague pledges to enhance their Paris emissions reductions targets. But the watered-down text reflects a failure to agree on the key outcomes that were needed at the summit: setting a rulebook for the Paris Agreement and designing a global carbon market.
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Donald Trump has filed paperwork to remove the United States from the Paris Agreement, signed by his predecessor Barack Obama, next November – the earliest date the U.S. can leave. The U.S. absence has left the EU alone in trying to bring developing countries like China and India on board.
“COP25 has been mired in the politics of low ambition that seek to serve individual agendas in a way that is totally out of step with the urgent need for collective action,” said Eliot Whittington, director of the European Corporate Leaders Group, a collection of climate-ambitious CEOs.
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All of the COPs and the Greta pep talk is working.
The EU have committed to economic destruction to attempt to do something that is physically impossible by 2050.
Apparently, the UK have signed on with the EU to mutually assured destruction and/or public rioting well before that date if the idiots stay the course.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-accord/major-states-snub-calls-for-climate-action-as-u-n-summit-wraps-up-idUSKBN1YJ02D
Delegates drew some consolation from an agreement reached in Brussels last week by the European Union’s 28 member states, bar Poland, to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, under a “Green Deal” to wean the continent off fossil fuels.
BBC world news:
Krista Mikkonen, Finnish environment minister and EU representative at the conference
“It seems that the EU now needs to be the leader and we want to be and we are going to be and that is what we are doing.”
Parking the fact 100% of the IPCC science is incorrect. Humans caused no more than 5% of the recent rise in atmospheric CO2. Obviously no CAGW. Expect cooling early next year.
When is the next “How Dare You” conference ??
9-19 November 2020, in Glasgow and they have an issue they can’t kick things down the road if they don’t have a full agreement the Paris Agreement becomes invalid. They can choose to vary the Paris agreement but that I think most would say there would be no point if they were not at least close to agreement.
The two big sticking points wont be resolved because they have underlying problems
(1) The developed nations are never going to agree to formal reparations they want as they can afford approach. There would be few democratic countries that there leader would be able to do that because the public would vote them out. I know what the reaction in Australia would be if our leader suggested we were going to send massive amounts while we still have our own poor and disadvantaged. So it isn’t remotely possible our Politicians could agree to that because the public support is to low.
(2) The carbon trading scheme is problematic because the rich countries can simply out source there carbon neutrality. In the same way all the jetsetting celebs and royals claim carbon neutral by buying a few trees. The general idea is you are supposed to at least try and cut your emissions first and use the offsets as a last resort.
What is the US currently doing to be in the Paris agreement? I know of no C02 restrictions on anything in the US.
US is still in because Obama signed you in to the agreement (which isn’t a treaty) and it had a 2 year exit clause. So you get to stay in and throw hand grenades although this time around you didn’t have to throw many China won the hand grenade throwing contest, India and Brazil were close second, followed by Japan, Australia and the Saudies.
LdB, as I recall….Signatory Parties could notify their exit from Paris Agreement 3 years after signing, with a then 1 year withdrawal period.
John,
The Obama EPA-directed Clean Power Plan (CPP) was intended to be Obama’s end-around Congress to impose Paris Agreement US national declared intentions on CO2 emission reduction.
The Supreme Court put a court-order “Stay” (by a 5-4 majority vote) on the implementation against the states by EPA’s CPP in February 2016 until pending CPP challenges in the lower courts could be heard and appeals made. What Obama was trying to do with his Paris Agreement CPP rules from the EPA was without Congressional authority. The Executive has no power to impose new legal requirements on the States without some kind of Congressional authority, something based on laws passed by Congress. Obama had no Congressional authority for CPP. It was thus unconstitutional with a Supreme Court majority that remained faithful to an original US constitution interpretation.
Justice Antonin Scalia’s untimely death 1 week after the CPP Stay then allowed Obama to make a Supreme Court nomination (Merrick Garland) that would, if confirmed by the Senate, probably would have tipped the majority back to the Liberals to allow the CPP go forward. Fortunately Senate Majority Leader McConnell made one of the most consequential decisions of our lifetime. He told Obama his Supreme Court nominee would not get a confirmation vote from the Senate Majority, fulfilling his advise and consent duty under the Constitution. The CPP stay by the Supreme Court was never lifted as Obama had obviously hoped for. The fact that the Supreme Court balance was in play for the 2016 election drove many Conservatives to the polls to vote. A reality of many silent conservatives the media and pollsters could not account for in their polling methods, polling which consistently showed Hillary winning, thus lulling the Democrats to some complacency about a sure win for Crooked Hillary who could then fill Scalia’s seat with a Lib and remove the stay on CPP.
The Supreme Court stay on CPP implementation was still in effect when Trump took office in January 2017. The Trump EPA has since withdrew the CPP implementation and the court challenges became moot. The US under President Trump has no intention of committing economic suicide while China and India have no emissions limits under the UNFCCC COP process.
If the US elects a Democrat President in 2020, that President will be facing a solid conservative majority Supreme Court.
The Democrats hope to have two options at that point in 2021… if they can exercise them by winning the Senate majority in next year’s 2020 election.
1) Eliminate the Senate filibuster rule for legislation so that a simple majority vote in the US Senate can pass a CPP legislation and carbon taxes, or a cap and trade scheme like the one that died in 2010.
2) pack the Supreme Court with 4 more Liberal Justices that will allow the executive (President) to rule by fiat.
John Bell,
The US is now and has been for well over three decades reducing pollution, the real kind and CO2, as well. (We’ve been working on it since Nixon and the 70s, in reality.)
I posted this article above but in a longer version. The US has been cutting CO2 for a long time–without Paris and without wrecking our economy, esp., in the last 3 years, unlike Europe while cutting CO2 emissions. Fracking and natural gas, all done without the Gov., is the biggest but not the only reason.
The US is the only developed nation of which I am aware that is on target to meet 2050 CO2 emission standards. No Paris A, needed, thank you very much.
Electric Utility Emissions Continue to Decline Through 2018
http://bit.ly/2Pe0rWP
The origin of this never ending story is the structural weakness that created a complete absence of accountability in in a never ending organization.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/02/25/un/
Little entitled Thunberg is annoyed at Deutsche Bundesbahn…
She twitted:
“Traveling on overcrowded trains through Germany. And I’m finally on my way home!”
To which DB responded:
“We were pleased that you were on the ICE 74 with us on Saturday, and with 100 percent green electricity,”
“It would have been even nicer had you acknowledged how well and competently our team treated you in your First Class seat,”
Billionaire sailing yacht, special flown skipper, Telsa littered with plastic bottles and one use plastic cups… that’s your green hypocrite of the day!
https://www.rt.com/news/475965-greta-thunberg-train-overcrowded/
Maybe if they had a Diesel powered loco at the front end they could have had more seats .
When it comes to jumping off a cliff it’s hard to find a volunteer to go first.
norway should be putting mega billions into the fight since they make mega billions from their state owned fossil fuel company which has put away hundreds of billions of dollars in profits . its more fun to just whine about everyone else”s inaction . its
why theyre not in the EU . when youre that rich you want your independence
norway should be throwing billions into the fight from the hundreds of billions of dollars of profits from their state owned fossil fuel industry . but its much more fun whining about the lack of action . its why theyre not in the EU . whats norways is norways . sharing stops at the border .
When that crowd all turn up in Glasgow, tell them to go to the 11th Floor of the hotel :
The teenage girl campaign against farting cattle continues!
1857 Nonqawuse (300 000 – 400 000 cattle slaughtered. CO2 & methane output massively reduced)
2019 Greta (Scoldilocks) Thunberg (No figures officially recorded)
A luta continua