Too many cooks spoil the soup. Eliminate all the unofficial delegates. The delegates that do attend need to be recognized by their government with a comprehensive plan for their country. The entire focus needs to be prioritized to
...At Paris, (click here) there was a provisional list of around 15,000 participants present on behalf of a particular country, or “party” – plus another 8,000 unofficial delegates – while at last year’s COP in Bonn, there were around 11,300 participants....
A majority of delegates need to be scientists from each country involved with climate. There has to be progress in the areas of eliminating greenhouse gases and scientists can assist with that. There should be NO delegates that represent the petroleum industry.
Earth cannot wait one more day. As of January 1, 2019, there are eleven more years to avoid a catastrophe by 2030. This is not a new assessment by the IPCC. They have been stating 2030 as the year when all measures to end the climate crisis should be in place. There is no disagreement about this from the entire world of science. It is time to move forward and solidify all plans.
The USA Democrats need to assemble their delegation including the scientists that wrote the report for the country. One of those delegates needs to be Governor Jerry Brown who knows first hand the bureaucracy that can hinder such accomplishments.
16 December 2018
Nearly 23,000 delegates (click here) descended on the coal-tinged city with a deadline for hashing out the Paris Agreement “rulebook”, which is the operating manual needed for when the global deal enters into force in 2020.
This was mostly agreed, starting a new international climate regime under which all countries will have to report their emissions – and progress in cutting them – every two years from 2024.
But as countries wrestled with the “four-dimensional spaghetti” of competing priorities – as one delegate put it to Carbon Brief – they clashed over how to recognise the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on 1.5C and whether to clearly signal the need for greater ambition to stay below this temperature limit.
The final outcome included hints at the need for more ambitious climate pledges before 2020, leaving many NGOs disappointed at the lack of more forceful language. Meanwhile, new research released at the COP showed global emissions were going up, not down.
With tension mounting across the fortnight of the talks, UN secretary-general António Guterres had to visit the COP several times to force progress. Despite settling on large parts of the Paris rulebook, countries failed to agree the rules for voluntary market mechanisms, pushing part of the process onto next year’s COP25 in Chile.
Here, Carbon Brief provides in-depth analysis of all the key outcomes in Katowice – both inside and outside the COP…
