Businesses and governments have made empty climate promises for 30 years now, and whenever it’s time to.deliver they kick the can down the road. This approach, periodically jetting them all to some oil-rich country for a conference headed by an oil company CEO, just might not be the credible solution we need to the problem of fossil fuels destroying the planet.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a statement to be announced at the event in Dubai, the group, including the World Bank and regional peers, said the window of opportunity to secure a liveable planet was “rapidly closing”.
With global emissions rising and despite United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres telling world leaders on Friday that ending fossil fuel use was the only way to save the planet, the statement made no direct mention of the issue.
To date, the European Investment Bank is the only one of the signatories to sign the so-called ‘Glasgow Declaration’ and committed to stop lending to fossil fuel projects, with burning of the energy sources responsible for the bulk of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.
Going forward, the banks said they plan to agree a common approach to tracking and reporting climate impact, and would scale up the use of analytics to help countries identify priorities and investment opportunities.
A new, joint Long-term Strategies Program, hosted by the World Bank, would coordinate support to help countries and sub-national entities develop plans around issues including decarbonisation and climate resilience.
The group also pledged to help countries set up platforms to encourage a “collectively reinforcing combination” of support including around policy reform, finance and technical assistance.
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This shit just gives credibility to ecoterrorists. Bread and Circuses won’t make the climate habitable. We’ll have to make a bunch of very rich people very unhappy and I think we can live with that. The rest of us are already suffering, whats one or two more conveniences?
