Yes! Think Globally, Act Locally!! No need to help the climate change deniers make hay out of poor optics of climate scientists and policy makers jetting off to COP conventions all over the globe every year. Then arguing about semantics, verbs and adjectives in some non binding “agreement” such as the 2015 Paris Accord that has essentially been a complete failure – GHG emissions have continued to increase along with global average temperature
Here’s a quote by COP28 delegate from the Association of Small Island States that sums it up for me.
“The current process is not perfect, but is the only one available for us,” Fatumanava-o-Upolu III Dr Pa’olelei Luteru, the permanent representative of Samoa to the UN and the chair of the alliance, told me after the press conference. At the same time, he finds it ridiculous that issues are constantly pushed to the next COP, to the next year, when the threats that island states face are time-limited and always getting worse. “We always seem to be talking,” he said. “When you go home they say, ‘What the hell did you do there?’” he added. “Sometimes you feel embarrassed.”
The late Queen Elizabeth apparently felt the same when she was caught on a hot mic prior to COP26 2 years ago where she was to welcome world leaders in Glasgow saying that it’s “irritating” when “they talk, but they don’t do.”
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Yes! Think Globally, Act Locally!! No need to help the climate change deniers make hay out of poor optics of climate scientists and policy makers jetting off to COP conventions all over the globe every year. Then arguing about semantics, verbs and adjectives in some non binding “agreement” such as the 2015 Paris Accord that has essentially been a complete failure – GHG emissions have continued to increase along with global average temperature
Here’s a quote by COP28 delegate from the Association of Small Island States that sums it up for me.
“The current process is not perfect, but is the only one available for us,” Fatumanava-o-Upolu III Dr Pa’olelei Luteru, the permanent representative of Samoa to the UN and the chair of the alliance, told me after the press conference. At the same time, he finds it ridiculous that issues are constantly pushed to the next COP, to the next year, when the threats that island states face are time-limited and always getting worse. “We always seem to be talking,” he said. “When you go home they say, ‘What the hell did you do there?’” he added. “Sometimes you feel embarrassed.”
The late Queen Elizabeth apparently felt the same when she was caught on a hot mic prior to COP26 2 years ago where she was to welcome world leaders in Glasgow saying that it’s “irritating” when “they talk, but they don’t do.”