'Triple whammy' threatens UN action on climate change

[nitpicker]

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48746137

'Triple whammy' threatens UN action on climate change

By Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent

10 minutes ago

A "triple whammy" of events threatens to hamper efforts to tackle climate change say UN delegates. At a meeting in Bonn, Saudi Arabia has continued to object to a key IPCC scientific report that urges drastic cuts in carbon emissions. Added to that, the EU has so far failed to agree to a long term net zero emissions target. Thirdly, a draft text from the G20 summit in Japan later this week waters down commitments to tackle warming.

One attendee in Bonn said that, taken together, the moves represented a fierce backlash from countries with strong fossil fuel interests.

There was controversy last December at the Katowice COP24 meeting in Poland, when Saudi Arabia, the US, Kuwait and Russia objected to moves to welcome the findings of the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C.

That study, regarded as a landmark, had two clear messages. It showed that there were huge benefits in keeping temperature rises this century to 1.5C compared to a world that warmed 2C or more. It also said that keeping the world below 1.5C was still possible, if drastic cuts in emissions were initiated by 2030.

To the frustration of a huge majority of countries, the objections of the four major fossil fuel producers, meant that the scientific report was not formally recognised in the negotiations.

The battle over the 1.5C report has carried over from Katowice to Bonn. Normally, this mid-year meeting is concerned with technical questions but this time the issue of the IPCC has re-emerged as a huge fault line between nations.
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[mr_lebowski]

1. We're all gonna fucking die ...

I mean, I'm gonna to die before the worst of it, for sure, but ... yeah.

Humanity, and even more sadly, a large amount of life on this planet ... is freaking doomed.

We're idiots.

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Stupid and Greedy, mostly Greedy.

[safeinOhio]

2. Humans are the yeast of the planet.

Once humans are added to the sweet environment, they breed, eat all the sugar and shit out poison until all of their shit equals 15% and they all die from the alcohol poison.