COP26 whats expected, whats delivered

[Kwality]

• THE TIMES

It is tempting to dismiss the Cop26 global climate summit in Glasgow next month as just another talking shop, literally a festival of hot air. That would be a mistake. It is true that the prognosis at this point does not look promising.
There is little sign that world leaders will deliver on the central goal of the summit, which is to set out the detailed emission reduction policies needed to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C by 2050, the target set in the Paris climate deal in 2015.

Britain, despite being the conference host and expected to lead by example, has yet to set out some of its own plans. Some world leaders, including China’s President Xi, have yet to confirm their attendance. And with two weeks to go Boris Johnson is on holiday in Spain rather than engaged in intensive diplomacy.

 

[Kwality]

'Next week G20 leaders will meet in Rome, where it is possible that Mario Draghi, the Italian prime minister and present G20 president, will secure emissions pledges from laggards such as China, India and Saudi Arabia needed to keep the 1.5C target on track.
The G20 is responsible for 80 per cent of global emissions, so a deal at this level is a necessary to any Cop26 success.'

NoCookies | The Australian

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The above does shine a light on why COP26 is more about show than go, much to the chagrin of those claiming its about Morrison/Australia. Think the future King of Australia, who will doubtless attend, fly not train.

It will be very difficult to ignore the current energy crisis, whilsr looking forward.

 

[Kwality]

INDIA: https://indianexpress.com/article/e...e-conference-and-why-it-is-important-7574493/

Clear understanding of what needs to be done, not what INDIA is going to take to COP26.


Developed nations must enact laws for zero-emission goal by 2030, says India
India made the demand while cautioning the World Bank against the climate change agenda of countries that are outside the scope of their Nationally Determined Contributions.

Developed nations must enact laws for zero-emission goal by 2030, says India

India made the demand while cautioning the World Bank against the climate change agenda of countries that are outside the scope of their Nationally Determined Contributions.

indianexpress.com

....under its NDC, India has made four commitments, including reducing the greenhouse gas emission intensity of its GDP by 33-35 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.

India’s developmental imperatives are eradication of poverty, provision of basic needs for all citizens and access to energy for all, in the context of sustainable development...

The multilateral climate change regime is based on the principles of equity and common but differentiated responsibility and respective capacities (CBDR-RC), in the light of national circumstances ...

“India’s share of global cumulative emissions (1850-2018) is only 4.37 per cent and its current per capita emissions are at 1.96 tons CO2 per capita. For Europe, the respective numbers are 33 per cent and 7.9 tons CO2 per capita and for the USA, these numbers are 25 per cent and 17.6 tons CO2 per capita,” Sitharaman said.

“The emission by the developed countries has led to a huge carbon stock in the atmosphere, taking away the carbon space required by the developing countries to grow,” the Union Finance minister said.

“Some of the developed countries peaked in 1979 but still aim to reach net-zero by only 2050 while they expect the same transition to be performed much more swiftly by the developing countries, many of whom have yet to reach their peak,” ...

“What is most onerous is that this great transition is expected without clear and substantial financial support or technology transfer,” ....

 

[JackFlash]

It's a complete nonsense!

 

[Kwality]

It's a complete nonsense!

So ScoMo is going, that 1% of the problem, no Putin, Xi or Modi.

The glitterati are still turning up, jetting in to the talkfest of virtue signallers.

COP26: How can an average family afford an electric car? And more questions

BBC correspondents answer your questions about Glasgow's COP26 climate summit.

www.bbc.com

Why aren't the heads of state of China, India and Saudi Arabia attending COP26? - Thomas Myett, Dorset

 

[JackFlash]

So ScoMo is going, that 1% of the problem, no Putin, Xi or Modi.

The glitterati are still turning up, jetting in to the talkfest of virtue signallers.

COP26: How can an average family afford an electric car? And more questions

BBC correspondents answer your questions about Glasgow's COP26 climate summit.

www.bbc.com

Why aren't the heads of state of China, India and Saudi Arabia attending COP26? - Thomas Myett, Dorset

Because none of them wish to be Candle salesmen...they are just sitting back waiting for this "Western Folly" to collapse economies and pick up the pieces of this madness.

 

[Kwality]

Because none of them wish to be Candle salesmen...they are just sitting back waiting for this "Western Folly" to collapse economies and pick up the pieces of this madness.

They certainly do not buy the rules that govern the scoreboard of climate change. Neither do the Kiwis who dont count agriculture & no one is bleating.

One day someone will explain how the EU can be the end user of steel, but its the miner of the coal that is in the gun.

 

[HairyO]

Huge amounts of pollution and waste will be generated.

All of the disagreements will be about the final statement.

In the last hours it will finally be agreed. Words will be said.

But no real, substantial change will happen in 75% of the world. With the other 25% having already done something.

Just like every other one of these.

Its hard when, for 30 years, we have been told we have 5 years to act. Are we at -25 years or is it already too late?

Tim Flannery said it would take 1,000 to reverse the damage.

 

[Kwality]

United Nations Climate Change conference - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The first UN Climate Change Conference was held in 1995 in Berlin.

 

[Damp Squarie]

 

[Kwality]

In the basket of the whats expected:
'Climate action is a profoundly divisive issue and much of this political fracture is still between developed nation elites and the less better-off, both among nations and within nations. Opinion is moving in favour of action but don’t be fooled by the latest propaganda that net zero at 2050 is yesterday’s debate and grossly inadequate. There is no certainty this goal can be met. The changed living conditions and structural adjustment involved are huge; witness Bill Gates saying the 2050 target will be “the hardest thing humanity’s ever done” and getting the public to accept the necessary changes remains an unknown project.'


The host, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has spent the past week talking up the UK’s climate change agenda while talking down expectations about Glasgow. “COP was always going to be extremely tough,” he said, referring to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference that is aiming to secure new and more ambitious emissions-reduction targets across the wo
While Johnson cast Britain as the leader of “the green industrial revolution” with the 10 policy commandments “that I brought down from Sinai last year”, government documents revealed the reality: new taxes from the transition, lower revenues, assessing mortgages on climate change criteria, road pricing, and more investment in nuclear power.

The British stake in Glasgow is huge. The royals feel saving the planet transcends their monarchical neutrality. Prince Charles said the threat to the planet “was already beginning to be catastrophic” and, desperate to become greener still, he had converted an old Aston Martin to run on English white wine and whey.

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[Engimal v3]

We can expect Scott Morrison humiliating us on an international stage

 

[Kwality]

We can expect Scott Morrison humiliating us on an international stage

He is reaching into the grab bag solution that 'the world will invent something to solve the greatest moral challenge of our time.....'

NoCookies | The Australian

www.theaustralian.com.au

Muttering words of support of an aspiration is 'good enough' for some.

 

[Kwality]

India represents the developing world & will be present at both the G20 & COP26.
https://www.livemint.com/news/india...ate-finance-tech-transfer-11635452170328.html

India is considering several options to mitigate the global climate crisis and will argue for a “level playing field" for developed and developing nations to ensure that their climate ambitions are comparable. Climate financing and access to technology provided by developed countries will also help determine India’s actions.

 

[JackFlash]

When does this farce end? Will Crazy Joe know he's even in Glasgow? The whole thing is insane!

 

[Kwality]

Has the G20 achieved something:

More than 100 countries reach global deal for minimum corporate tax rate. What will it mean?

The historic agreement ensures big companies pay a minimum tax rate of 15 per cent, making it harder for them to stash profits in low-tax countries and could raise government tax incomes by $200 billion annually. This is what the deal looks like.

www.abc.net.au

More than 130 countries, including Australia, have forged a deal on sweeping changes in how big global companies are taxed.

The goal: deterring multinational companies from stashing profits in countries where they pay little or no taxes — better known as tax havens.

The sweeping agreement was struck on Friday among 136 countries after talks overseen by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

It would update a century's worth of international taxation rules to cope with changes brought by digitalisation and globalisation.

"Today's agreement will make our international tax arrangements fairer and work better," OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann said in a statement.

"This is a major victory for effective and balanced multilateralism."

Great aim but can its be delivered?

 

[Kwality]

The final G20 communique released late Sunday revealed a softening in language around net-zero emissions by 2050 targets, with carbon neutrality goals watered down after negotiations to say “by or around mid-century”.

 

[Kwality]

G20 was a win for those opposed to strong action on climate change, but the fight's not over yet

The crucial COP26 climate conference in Glasgow has been declared to be dead by some before it even starts after the G20 nations failed to deliver any strong commitments at their Rome meeting. But such pronouncements may be premature, Michael Slezak writes.

www.abc.net.au

G20 may have been a 'failure' on climate change, but there's still hope for COP26

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

We can expect Scott Morrison humiliating us on an international stage

Why should we promise anything when half the world is not even attending? It’s a chest-beating exercise of billionaires and elites pushing their investment opportunities and demanding developed countries give up their economies. We are being played for suckers. Morrison won’t fall for this farce.

 

[Blue Arrow]

Hopefully we can get the worlds largest emitter to pull it back.
Oops, forgot China didn't bother going because it is exempt because it is a 'developing' country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong_space_station

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Morrison refuses to kill off our beef industry to lower cow farts. What a bastard.


Hope everyone can see what a farce this whole thing is/was.

 

[Shane Sheridan]

We can expect Scott Morrison humiliating us on an international stage

He's finally delivered.

 

[JackFlash]

Blah, blah. blah, Greta can rant all she wants. Absolutely nothing will happen unless China are on board and they never will be...

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

After all the hype it's all been a gigantic flop. Wonder if COP27 will be any better

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

This is the REAL emergency in the world today

Horrific moment dad sells nine-year-old daughter

As nine-year-old Parwana Malik is sold to an older man with a thick white beard to be his “bride”, her father asks, “please don’t beat her”.

www.news.com.au

Makes me sick to see the fraud going on in Glasgow when there are genuine humanitarian crises that are ignored.