{"id":263035,"date":"2023-06-20T17:50:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T15:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263035"},"modified":"2023-06-20T17:50:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T15:50:52","slug":"climate-lol-8-days-to-agree-the-agenda-of-a-9-day-climate-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263035","title":{"rendered":"Climate LOL: 8 Days to Agree the Agenda of a 9 Day Climate Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UN Chief: \u201c\u2026 I see a lack of ambition, a lack of trust, a lack of support, a lack of co-operation and an abundance of problems around clarity and credibility \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leaders gathered for nine days of climate talks. It took them eight to agree on an agenda<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nick O\u2019Malley<\/a><\/strong>
June 16, 2023 \u2014 3.55pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of all the world\u2019s leaders, it is the United Nations\u2019 Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who has come to speak with the most force on our failure to rise to the threat of climate change, and so it was when he spoke as the Bonn Climate Change Conference came to a close this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI see a lack of ambition, a lack of trust, a lack of support, a lack of co-operation and an abundance of problems around clarity and credibility,\u201d he said in a speech made in New York on Wednesday that was aimed directly at Bonn, where 8000 people had gathered for the last major climate talks before this year\u2019s COP28 conference in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCountries are far off track in meeting climate promises and commitments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe climate agenda is being undermined. At a time when we should be accelerating action, there is backtracking. At a time when we should be filling gaps, those gaps are growing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not surprising that Guterres was so blunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Bonn, negotiators spent eight of the nine days arguing about the meeting\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/climate-change\/leaders-gathered-for-nine-days-of-climate-talks-it-took-them-eight-to-agree-on-an-agenda-20230616-p5dh1h.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

You have to admit Gutteres has a point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps climate leaders need to work out a designated negotiator system, so the delegate who draws the short straw gets to make speeches to an empty room, while everyone else can duck out and live it up with Germany\u2019s 24\u00d77 abundance of adult entertainments, or whatever it was they were doing while the underlings \u201cnegotiated the agenda\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mean, it\u2019s kind of embarrassing when nobody at all wants to proceed with the big meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UN Chief: \u201c\u2026 I see a lack of ambition, a lack of trust, a lack of support, a lack of co-operation and an abundance of problems around clarity and credibility 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