Time to kill off the big, fat COP climate conferences that accomplish almost nothing
COP15 dud in Copenhagen. Since then, I have worked the conference mob scenes in Paris, Madrid and, earlier this month, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. They were duds, too, in the sense that none ended with formal agreements to reduce fossil fuel use – the only metric that matters as average global temperatures rise to dangerous levels.
I suspect accounting fudges might allow the fund to be launched officially at next year’s COP28 in Dubai. The temptation to finance it by diverting money from other climate funds, such as the prominent adaptation and mitigation fund, may prove tempting for some wealthy countries. That fund’s goal was to come up with US$100-billion a year, but it has always come up short.
The COPs started out as a good idea. They were the result of the launch in 1992 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change , the goal of which was to prevent global warming from triggering an existential crisis for the planet. The first COP was held in Berlin in 1995. At minimum, they should be slimmed down to their core pursuits, including negotiating emissions reductions, protecting carbon sinks such as the Amazon and Congo forests, and finding ways to help poor countries adapt to a problem not of their doing. This does not need a cast of thousands. It needs small, dedicated groups of negotiators who know their files and have direct access to their country’s environment and industry ministers.
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