The group of 20 wealthiest nations (G20) failed last week to agree on the wording of key commitments to fight climate change.
The failure comes just 100 days ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, in Glasgow.
Reuters reported:
The G20 meeting was seen as a decisive step ahead of United Nations climate talks, known as COP 26, which take place in 100 days’ time in Glasgow in November.
The failure to agree on common language ahead of that gathering is likely to be seen as a setback to hopes of securing a meaningful accord in Scotland.
“The world urgently needs a clear and unambiguous commitment to the 1.5-degree goal of the Paris Agreement from all G20 nations,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said on Sunday:
There is no pathway to this goal without the leadership of the G20. This signal is desperately needed by the billions of people already on the frontlines of the climate crisis and by markets, investors, and industry who require certainty that a net-zero, climate-resilient future is inevitable.
Guterres said it was an “ambitious yet achievable goal” to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent by 2030 and gain global carbon neutrality by 2050.
These stated dates, however, seem in contrast to the dire warnings of leftist U.S. politicians who have for some time claimed that the world has about a dozen years until the battle against so-called climate change will be lost.
The U.N. climate change goals include controversial commitments, such as no coal production after 2021, phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, and a minimum international carbon pricing floor — the latter a proposal by the globalist International Monetary Fund.
Reuters reported that one point of contention was the wording around the 1.52-degree Celsius limit on global temperature increases that were set by the 2015 Paris Agreement.
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Norway is a rich nation. It is ranked first in the World for per capita GDP among nations of one million people or more. It is heavily invested in renewable energy. Thanks to its geography, hydro-electricity abounds, making it the World’s sixth largest HE producer and the largest in Europe.
Yet, the economy still runs on fossil fuel. Gas and oil exports total over two fifths of Norwegian export revenue. Take fossil fuel away and Norway loses not just the richest per capita major nation title. It is simply no longer rich.
The best way to help the people in poor undeveloped countries is to get of the way and allow developed countries to continue producing surplus produce so that those people can at least eat. The next thing is to set them up with reliable cheap electricity generation so they can progress out of the day-to-day necessity of gathering fuel for cooking etc., And finally, help them develop clean water supplies so that their children can have a chance at surviving beyond childhood.
Yeh, and there are billions in two countries (India and China) who could be using
LNG to produce much cleaner energy instead of coal, but we aren’t even allowing it to leave our country to help them. Instead we’ll waste money thru governments,
or the UN which aren’t close to efficient in helping the poor. Don’t really like Guterres, even first time he was on the scene !
That should be changed to: “Millions of parasitic bureaucrats counting on rich nations to be stupid enough to fund their malicious activities”.
So now the Useless Nations wants all Rich Nations to stop something that only happens on fake computer graphs and in the minds of Greenpeace and NRDC loose nuts as well as Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio’s fake Documentries