The UN’s annual climate conference ended Monday with big decisions pushed off to 2020 and beyond.
Brazil and Australia were accused of thwarting a proposed carbon trading system by insisting they be allowed to recycle past credits. India, the world’s third-biggest carbon emitter, opposed more ambitious emissions targets and called for an “examination of whether richer countries have done enough.”
Saudi Arabia and Russia, both big oil producers, also opposed new targets.
China, the world’s top emitter, will sit tight and see what direction the U.S. takes on climate after 2020.
The U.S., the second-biggest emitter helped block a proposal that would see developing countries compensated for extreme weather events linked to climate change.
As an aside, Russia is investing heavily in military capabilities in the Arctic, as they and other countries are eyeing natural resources opened up by melting ice.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also sees a warming Arctic as an “opportunity” for the U.S.
Coal use is rising in Asia, and China is vastly increasing its coal-burning capacity. Cuts to fuel subsidies prompted massive protests this year in France, Ecuador and Iran.
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And this:
https://electroverse.net/physicist-co2-retains-heat-for-only-0-0001-seconds-warming-not-possible/
From my perspective as an American citizen, it is truly unfortunate that this subject of importance to each and every one of us has been made so dense and incomprehensible as to who these people are and what they are doing, or trying to do, and why they are having these meetings which essentially accomplish nothing, because world social democratic government, while in theory might be something to strive for, in reality is nothing more than a pipe dream and a joke.
As we were informed in the original post, the UN’s annual climate conference ended Monday with big decisions pushed off to 2020 and beyond, but what “big decisions?”
And for whom?
And the answer is, We, the American people, who are to be affected by those “big decisions,” have no clue as to what they are or might be, because those COP’s are not transparent, by design, as we see from the following RULES, to wit:
Categories for attendance at COP
1. State Party delegate with valid credentials
2. State non-Party delegate with valid credentials
3. IGO or NGO observer to COP with valid credentials
4. Member of the public or media
General information for Category 4
The COP has the authority to decide whether or not the session will be open to the public.
Limited public access will be allowed at the Conference’s plenary session and committee meetings if the COP does not decide otherwise in the course of the first plenary.
Applications for attendance are submitted on a daily basis at the Conference venue and are granted by the Secretariat on a first come, first served basis.
Media representatives must apply for accreditation before the start of the session, following the instructions on this website.
To be accredited, journalists should send a request to mediafctc@who.int along with: a letter signed by their editor-in-chief indicating the reason for accreditation and the dates for which accreditation is required; photocopies of media credentials, such as a press card; the completed media accreditation application form; a Declaration of Interests (DOI) form duly filled out; a copy of their passport along with a passport-style photograph.
Submission of these documents does not amount to acceptance.
The Secretariat will review all media applications and if successful, the applicant will be informed that they have received media accreditation for the session.
However, accredited journalists must abide by existing and subsequent decisions made by the Parties which may restrict access to meetings.
Under the current Rules of Procedure, the media falls under the category of public.
A future COP may make a decision whether to treat media as a separate category and give further guidance on media attendance at the COP.
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As to who these people are, we have this from the United Nations Climate Change website, to wit:
What is the COP?
The COP is the supreme decision-making body of the Convention.
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And this is what I am talking about when I say this subject gets denser and denser the deeper one tries to look into it.
So what then is the “Convention?”
When I try to find that answer at the UN site in the section Information on election and membership of the bodies of the Convention, I am rewarded with this warning, to wit: Access denied, You are not authorized to access this page.
State secrets, people – STAY OUT, YOUR KIND NOT WANTED IN HERE!
Coming at it from a different direction at the UN site, I found this, to wit:
How to engage without observer status
Who can attend UNFCCC conferences?
The secretariat would like to point out that in accordance with Article 7, paragraph 6 of the Convention, Parties to the Convention, United Nations and related organizations and agencies, media and already admitted non-profit observer organizations may attend the sessions of the Convention.
Consequently, conferences are not open to the public.
If your organization is not admitted, i.e. does not carry official observer status with the UNFCCC, and you have missed the deadline for admission or if your organization is not eligible for admission, the representatives of your organization might be nominated and confirmed to attend sessions by already-admitted observer organizations who agree for them to be part of their delegation.
Visibility on the list of participants will be given to the name of your organization if the nominating organization makes relevant entries in the online registration system when confirming your representatives.
Please note that observer organizations must nominate and confirm their representatives by the deadlines that are announced in the notification and/or information note for each conference.
List of all admitted observer organizations:
•Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
•Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs)
For more information on how an organization can be granted observer status in the UNFCCC process, please click here.
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And here I must again thank the Cape Charles Mirror for hosting this series of articles on this issue of “climate change,” and “social justice,” and “climate justice,” because there is some real serious **** going down that is warping and twisting the minds of young people in America, and that is very much to our detriment as a nation and people.