Countries agree compromise climate deal at COP30 - but omit mention of fossil fuels
The deal would boost finance for poor nations coping with global warming, but it fails to namecheck the fossil fuels driving it.
As the United Nations summit wrapped up in Brazil, applause masked disappointment in the many weak parts of the agreement...
Panama negotiator Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez said: "A climate decision that cannot even say 'fossil fuels' is not neutrality, it is complicity. And what is happening here transcends incompetence."
He added: "Science has been deleted from COP30 because it offends the polluters."
Can't argue with that, COP30 does transcend incompetence, whatever that means. Science hasn't been deleted from COP30 though, it was never there.
The clue, as Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez probably knows quite well, is that it's all about money, has been from the beginning.
By gum this racket has been going on for a long time though.
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Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.
Who knew Shakespeare had better insight into the activities of the Great and Good than they do themselves?
I really don't mind Starmer flying off on these jollies, I merely object to him coming back.
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