Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Christiana Figueres has scolded the USA, UK and Brazil for not doing enough to protect their people. During her time as UN Executive Secretary for Climate Change, Christiana Figueres’ gift to the world was the Paris Climate Agreement.
Why “Irresponsible” Governments Are Failing To Protect Citizens From COVID-19, Climate Change
The U.S., the U.K. and Brazil have been “nothing but irresponsible” in their isolationist approaches to the coronavirus crisis, and such stances will weaken the global response to climate change, climate action advocate Christiana Figueres has said. At the same time, she claimed, the pandemic had created an opportunity to “reinvent” the economy in a way that valued sustainable outcomes over growth.
Figueres, the former UN Executive Secretary for Climate Change, made the comments yesterday to an online audience at the U.K.’s Hay Festival of Literature and Arts, which this year is being held digitally because of the ongoing coronavirus lockdown.
“There is one responsibility that governments everywhere have, and that is to protect their citizens,” Figueres said, referring to the huge death tolls from COVID-19 seen in Britain and America. On the other hand, she said, “those countries that have managed to protect their citizens from the worst of COVID-19 have done their job, and they are probably the ones who are doing a better job on climate change.” Figueres singled out Germany, Iceland, Finland, New Zealand and Denmark as countries that in her view had dealt effectively with the pandemic threat.
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“For years we have structured our economic process according to a linear trajectory in which we extract, we use and we discard. That is something that we can no longer afford to do.” Instead, she said, economies should move from “extract, use and discard” to a “circular economy,” whereby the end goal was not to increase economic output, but rather to regenerate resources.
The coronavirus pandemic had created conditions in which people were less resistant to change, Figueres added, and as a result humanity had an opportunity to “reinvent the way we do what we do,” from working habits and travel habits to communication and food production. “We’ve never seen anything like this,” she said, “so we shouldn’t let that opportunity go to waste.”
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Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2020/05/26/why-irresponsible-governments-are-failing-to-protect-citizens-from-covid-19-climate-change/
Figueres didn’t mention Australia, perhaps because Australia totally contradicts her green anti-capitalist narrative; Australia has a right wing government, elected by voters who soundly rejected more intense climate action during the last election. A government which keeps greens seething with Australia’s Federal commitment to dispatchable energy, yet whose Covid infection numbers look just as good if not better than Christiana’s examples of “good” countries.
Having said that it is difficult to pinpoint exactly why Australia is doing so well. President Trump made a lot of the same moves as the Australian government; Trump was one of the first leaders to ban travel from China.
I had a quick play with the numbers, the most likely explanation I can think of for the difference between say the USA and Australia or New Zealand is low population density (population density is a strong predictor of Covid infection rates), and perhaps a little luck. The disease struck Australia during the height of our Summer, when Coronaviruses tend to be at their weakest.
The Totality coming out of the woodwork to preach and whinge were already beaten when Trump took USA out of the Plan. The rest of the western world was in the bag. With covid now using up resources. They really should be planning a funeral for their climate fronting of Marxbrothers NWO Plan meeting in Glasgow or wherever .
The developing economies weren’t fooled, but were in it for the cash that never showed up. China negotiated a business as usual stance going ahead with massive coalfired power development. Ditto India and the rest of Asia.
Also in keeping with long range plans for acquiring raw materials to supply planned global domination, economic and otherwise, China is building large numbers of coal based electrical in Africa. They are the new colonial masters there and they are going to show how its done.
So, 6 billion people have opted out of the Plan and 1.5 billion have their heads in the sand and delusions of grandeur. Folks we are helpless to prevent doing the big CO2 experiment. We will have the finest of big data to measure the effect of rising CO2 on the climate, its sensitivity, transient and full effect, will be known to decimal places. Don’t these people know this yet?
Why “Irresponsible” Governments Are Failing To Protect Citizens From COVID-19, Climate Change, rogue meteors, dangerous ladders, Reptilian Overlords, Supernovas, cosmic rays, smothering KARENs
Why “Irresponsible” Governments Are Failing To Protect Citizens From COVID-19, Climate Change, rogue meteors, dangerous ladders, Reptilian Overlords, Supernovas, cosmic rays, smothering KARENs…
.. Hemorrhoids, Toenail fungus, Planters warts, Explosive diarrhea, The heartbreak of psoriasis, Global warming, Wilder weather, Human sacrifice, Dogs and cats living together, Mass hysteria…
Why “Irresponsible” Governments Are Failing To Protect Citizens From …., Reptilian Overlords,
yes, David Icke has been warning us for years about that, but would anybody listen? Noooo!!! /sarc
There’s that word again, “reinvent”. It’s like the socialists are passing around a “Approved Language” book.
“For years we have structured our economic process according to a linear trajectory in which we extract, we use and we discard. That is something that we can no longer afford to do.”
This sounds exactly like breathing, drinking and eating, all activities that extract and discard. How bloody selfish of me because I’ve been doing this all my life.
What an intellect and I’m so glad she has gained such a lofty position of influence. So what exactly has she invented or discovered or made?
China gets left off the hook for both…lol.
The EU staff live in their created bubble. There are absolutely clueless.
When economic active goes goes down. Government spends a pile more. The money is gone. The GDP machines are broken. Spending a pile more is not going to change that.
When some of the EU countries were rich… there was money to waste, by creating and an entire new layer of chaotic government to waste money…
The EU countries are 30% poorer (tourism demand is gone, unemployment is 30%) and they must cut expenditures to pay pensions, police, run healthcare, and so on.
First on list?
Not a trick question. The EU is gone. Some governments are also going.
the only figures even vaguely known at this point are population and deaths. Figueres is showing her politics as usual:
Statista: Coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths worldwide per one million population as of May 27, 2020, by country
#1 Belgium (home of EU) 817.19
#9 United States 391.95
#15 Brazil (behind Ecuador & Peru)
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AUDIO: 27 May: news.com.au: Countries are ‘reverting back to economic nationalism and we must respond’: Canavan
Countries are ‘reverting back to economic nationalism and we must respond’: Canavan
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says “the world has changed” and he thinks Australia should remove itself from the Paris Climate Agreement as “there doesn’t seem to be a lot in it for us”. He said, “while China is not even honouring a trade agreement,” the nation is “tying ourselves down” by remaining within the agreement. “We’re increasingly seeing those agreements not being worth the paper they’re written on, including in the trade space,” he said. “We are seeing countries revert back to a greater form of economic nationalism and we need to respond”. US President Donald Trump had previously removed the United States’ support of the agreement saying the country’s continued participation would be bad for the economy.
https://www.news.com.au/national/countries-are-reverting-back-to-economic-nationalism-and-we-must-respond-canavan/video/655e60179fe1ebc126e88fabacc6f603
behind paywall:
27 May: Carbon Pulse: Senator renews push to withdraw Australia from Paris Agreement
Queensland senator and former Australian Resources Minister Matt Canavan on Wednesday called for Australia to pull out of the Paris Agreement, just days after Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor confirmed the nation would not consider a new target under the treaty until 2025.
omitted Brazil’ stat:
#15 Brazil 117.02 (behind Ecuador & Peru)
coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants
found the Canavan video:
VIDEO: 27 May: Facebook Sky News: Countries are ‘reverting back to economic nationalism and we must respond’: Canavan
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says “the world has changed” and he thinks Australia should withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement as “there doesn’t seem to be a lot in it for us”.
https://www.facebook.com/SkyNewsAustralia/videos/countries-are-reverting-back-to-economic-nationalism-and-we-must-respond-canavan/672763226856269/
27 May: Climate Home: Next UN climate summit to be delayed to November 2021, UK hosts propose
The Cop26 negotiations in Glasgow, UK, are likely to be held a full year later than planned, to allow time to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control
by Megan Darby
After consulting public health experts and key participants, the British hosts have recommended holding the talks later rather than sooner
“The primary considerations were to safeguard the health and safety of Cop26 participants, to ensure inclusiveness and to maximise the potential to build climate ambition,” according to a leaked letter signed by Cop26 envoy John Murton and lead negotiator Archie Young.
“The incoming presidency has concluded that, given the uneven spread of Covid-19, this date would present the lowest risk of further postponement, and the best chance of delivering an inclusive and ambitious Cop.”…
It opens up the possibility that the US could re-enter the Paris Agreement and arrive at the summit with a more ambitious contribution, if Democrats win the November election…
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/05/27/uk-proposes-hold-cop26-climate-summit-november-2021/
27 May: Renew Economy: The Australian government has officially given up on climate action
by Ketan Joshi
Today, the plan has changed. Instead of going to COP26 with an adjusted but blatantly weak target, Australia plans to go with no new target. The ‘tech roadmap’ that will be proffered instead is explicitly something that features no empirical baseline to test against. It is not the wrecking or manipulation of a target – it is anti-target. It is there to distract both from the open rejection of any update to the existing Paris target and the rejection of a ‘net zero’ policy. Australia…
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan has just published a piece in The Australian, in which he argues that “We should end our participation in the Paris Agreement, given the more immediate need to secure our manufacturing jobs”, wrote Canavan, moving on to nervously agitate for new coal mining and burning…
https://reneweconomy.com.au/the-australian-government-has-officially-given-up-on-climate-action-95609/
the joke is only 3 countries put forward more ambition prior to the deadline that the CAGW mob have been revising ever since this was written:
10 Feb: Climate Home: Marshall Islands, Suriname, Norway upgrade climate plans before Cop26
The three nations account for 0.1% of global emissions. Norway says 9 February was the deadline for new plans before climate talks in November.
By Alister Doyle
The Marshall Islands, Suriname and Norway have submitted plans for tougher action to tackle climate change before a five-year milestone of the Paris Agreement in 2020, with almost 200 others ignoring an informal 9 February deadline…
Documents implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement say countries are meant to bolster their NDCs every five years and submit the plans at least nine months before the relevant UN conferences, or Cop. This year’s Cop26 will be in Glasgow from 9-19 November, making 9 February a theoretical date for submissions…
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/02/10/which-countries-updated-ndc-2020-marshall-islands-suriname-norway-cop26/
21 May: Climate Home: Rwanda submits tougher emission-cutting plan to the UN
By Chloé Farand
Rwanda is the first African country to submit a tougher climate target to the UN, promising to cut emissions at least 16% by 2030 compared with a business-as-usual baseline…
Rwanda will need around $11 billion to achieve the full potential of its climate plan, including $5.7bn for carbon-cutting measures and $5.3bn for adaptation – with measures conditional on international support accounting for 60% of the estimated cost…
Mohamed Adow, director of Nairobi-based think tank Power Shift Africa, urged leaders in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to “take heed and ensure their own new climate plans are equally radical”.
Earlier this year, New Zealand told the UN it was waiting for official advice on how to align its climate target to the 1.5C temperature goal due in early 2021 before revising its national plan…
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/05/21/rwanda-submits-tougher-emission-cutting-plan-un/
27 May: Climate Home: Next UN climate summit to be delayed to November 2021, UK hosts propose
The Cop26 negotiations in Glasgow, UK, are likely to be held a full year later than planned, to allow time to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control
by Megan Darby
After consulting public health experts and key participants, the British hosts have recommended holding the talks later rather than sooner
“The primary considerations were to safeguard the health and safety of Cop26 participants, to ensure inclusiveness and to maximise the potential to build climate ambition,” according to a leaked letter signed by Cop26 envoy John Murton and lead negotiator Archie Young.
“The incoming presidency has concluded that, given the uneven spread of Covid-19, this date would present the lowest risk of further postponement, and the best chance of delivering an inclusive and ambitious Cop.”…
It opens up the possibility that the US could re-enter the Paris Agreement and arrive at the summit with a more ambitious contribution, if Democrats win the November election…
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/05/27/uk-proposes-hold-cop26-climate-summit-november-2021/
apologies for posting COP26 revised date article twice.
Does anyone else think that Christiana Figures is looking more and more like Naomi Oreskes as time goes by? I think that maybe Naomi and Christiana are distinct personalities from the same physical body, as in the case of Sybil [1], or The Three Faces of Eve or other persons with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder). And then there are the disorders that each of the identities suffers from individually, delusions of grandeur, saving the planet, megalomania… So sad.
[1] – Shirley Mason, the person who’s life was allegedly outlined in the book Sybil, later admitted in a letter to her therapist, Cornelia B. Wilbur, that she faked her multiple personalities to get her therapist to pay more attention to her. Wilbur, who’s career was made by the publication of the book Sybil, written with her cooperation by Flora R. Schreiber, claimed that Mason was lying in her admission letter, and that the multiple personalities were all real and involuntary expressions of DID. Did she get played? Probably. Most of the abuses outlined in the movie, starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward, were almost certainly false, and yet knowingly permitted to stand in the book.
Practicing good science and good medicine and good journalism in the face of competing incentives is hard, isn’t it?
she doesnt criticise Sweden when it has had almost no lockdown! Classic! Criticise those countries that have right wing anti globalist governments. Can this woman, can the UN get any more vile?
Oh, and this virus kicked off in Australias summer too.
Australia is the lucky country.
When Ava Gardner came to Australia to film “On the Beach” in 1959 with Gregory Peck she joked that Australia was not the end of the world but you could see it from there.
Suddenly Australia is looking terrific at the end of the world with closed borders.
The evidence is pointing to the coronavirus having been created in a lab, based on the evidence from scientists at Flinders University in South Australia. What the heck has the virus go to do with weather or climate? Nothing.
“You never want a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before” – Rahm Emanuel