ROCKMAN wrote:P - Please name the countries that are currently negotiating ENFORCEBLE TERMS for any response to climate change TODAY.
Do you remember the Kyoto Accords back in 1992? The UNFCC plan from the beginning was to have a purely voluntary "practice" treaty to allow countries to get used to the idea of cutting their carbon emissions, to be followed by a binding, ENFORCEABLE treaty to cut CO2 emissions. The Kyoto Accord was that voluntary "practice" treaty.
From 1992 to 2008 a binding ENFORCEABLE treaty was hammered out an finalized at the Bali 2008 UNFCC meeting. This was the treaty that was to be signed at the 2010 UNFCC meeting in Copenhagen. Unfortunately Obama had become president in the interim, and he went to Copenhagen and got in a tiff with the Chinese and derailed the signing of a binding ENFORCEABLE climate treaty.
Then Obama, together with the Chinese, tossed out the Bali draft agreement and started over again to put together another purely voluntary treaty. This was the document that was signed in Paris in 2016. The Paris Accords should actually be called Kyoto II.
So, to get to your point, there are exactly zero countries negotiating ENFORCEABLE cuts in CO2 emissions now, thanks to President Obama kowtowing to the Chinese. Its the reason I think Obama is personally responsible for doing more damage to the earth's climate then any other individual. Trump derailed the Paris Accords, but they're useless anyway. Obama destroyed decades of work on an ENFORCEABLE CO2 emissions treaty and took the entire world down the wrong path on cutting carbon emissions. And IMHO that is a bad thing.
ROCKMAN wrote:Not trying to pick on you in particular, buddy. But I've always been results oriented and cared very little for what folks say they want achieve. Am way to old to change now. LOL
No problemo.
I briefly worked on UNFCC issues for the U.S. government---on the science side not the political side----, but that was long ago. You are exactly right that there is a lot of talk and not much in the way of results, considering 30+ years of work on the issue. The reason is clear----Obama and the Chinese didn't want a binding ENFORCEABLE global treaty to cut CO2 emissions and they derailed the decades of work and negotiations by the UNFCC intended to create one.
Cheers!